A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
Apr 11th 2012, 7:59 am
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
And much of the dross that frequents the Costa del Sol, despite slagging off YUK, will end up back there, tail between their legs after the dream has gone, when they're skint, when they realise Spain will give them nothing, begging to be let back in and demand some of those benefits. "It wasn't meant to be forever, we only ever intended staying a few years" Yes, right!
Apr 11th 2012, 8:11 am
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
Emily, I agree with some of the things you are saying about the UK. After all, I decided to move to Spain because it is friendlier and more focussed on families. 5 years later and I am happy to say this is true imo.
However, as a young person with no qualifications (and even if you did have them), you would have a much brighter future in the UK than in Spain at the moment. And don't forget that you arent entitled to anything in Spain in terms of help anyway.
Spain is a great place to live if you have a good job. It is a terrible place to have to fight your way through life. I wish you the best, but in 5 or 10 years you may be tired of fighting and wishing you had the UK's benefits system. Fingers crossed that it doesnt come to that.
However, as a young person with no qualifications (and even if you did have them), you would have a much brighter future in the UK than in Spain at the moment. And don't forget that you arent entitled to anything in Spain in terms of help anyway.
Spain is a great place to live if you have a good job. It is a terrible place to have to fight your way through life. I wish you the best, but in 5 or 10 years you may be tired of fighting and wishing you had the UK's benefits system. Fingers crossed that it doesnt come to that.
Apr 11th 2012, 1:00 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
I was all for a little trip back to the UK, but have decided to go to BASRA instead, it sounds safer...............
Apr 11th 2012, 1:35 pm
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Then I remembered I'd never had any problems in UK, but have had our car broken into twice in Sevilla. Think I'll risk it all the same. 
Apr 11th 2012, 1:52 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
Emily, I agree with some of the things you are saying about the UK. After all, I decided to move to Spain because it is friendlier and more focussed on families. 5 years later and I am happy to say this is true imo.
However, as a young person with no qualifications (and even if you did have them), you would have a much brighter future in the UK than in Spain at the moment. And don't forget that you arent entitled to anything in Spain in terms of help anyway.
Spain is a great place to live if you have a good job. It is a terrible place to have to fight your way through life. I wish you the best, but in 5 or 10 years you may be tired of fighting and wishing you had the UK's benefits system. Fingers crossed that it doesnt come to that.
However, as a young person with no qualifications (and even if you did have them), you would have a much brighter future in the UK than in Spain at the moment. And don't forget that you arent entitled to anything in Spain in terms of help anyway.
Spain is a great place to live if you have a good job. It is a terrible place to have to fight your way through life. I wish you the best, but in 5 or 10 years you may be tired of fighting and wishing you had the UK's benefits system. Fingers crossed that it doesnt come to that.
Very good analogy Cman, and there are plenty in Spain who will always have to fight and seem to get nowhere always living hand to mouth........I may be off the mark here but to me the idea of immigration is to better ones position, and/ or provide better opporunities for the family in the future.
Apr 11th 2012, 2:14 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
Dont you watch the news? There is always someone getting stabbed, shot, robbed, Raped, . I used to play out in the street with the other kids at midnight in the summer when I was a kid, or go out down the town with mates at night when I was a young teen! Stuff that dosent happen in the UK, .... Whilst I was doing that and living a free safe life in a town where the biggest crime we saw was the neibourghs dog humping a cat.. On TV England was doing the whole fight against knife crime!... Come on.. I have Facebook and 4 terrible boy cousins who are always mouthing off about someone getting stabbed, or beaten up,.. Ive seen the documentrys of gangs that hang around on corners and randomly beat someone up! ... Ive been a kid that was brought up being bullied ... I pass on going back to that life...
Litraly, the biggest crime Ive seen in Estepona,.. was a stabbing between Gitanos, and some guiris who were drug traficating!
Yeah bad happens all around the world, and I aint saying that Its perfect down my way... But the stuff I see on TV about England scares me... Nevermind that its classed as a total dump...:S
Litraly, the biggest crime Ive seen in Estepona,.. was a stabbing between Gitanos, and some guiris who were drug traficating!
Yeah bad happens all around the world, and I aint saying that Its perfect down my way... But the stuff I see on TV about England scares me... Nevermind that its classed as a total dump...:S
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news...le_34319.shtml
Apr 11th 2012, 3:34 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
If you only read the Brit press then you will get a one sided view. There is often crime reports about Estepona and it is said the Port is not safe at night. Ignorance is bliss though
Apr 11th 2012, 3:38 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
Emily, I agree with some of the things you are saying about the UK. After all, I decided to move to Spain because it is friendlier and more focussed on families. 5 years later and I am happy to say this is true imo.
However, as a young person with no qualifications (and even if you did have them), you would have a much brighter future in the UK than in Spain at the moment. And don't forget that you arent entitled to anything in Spain in terms of help anyway.
Spain is a great place to live if you have a good job. It is a terrible place to have to fight your way through life. I wish you the best, but in 5 or 10 years you may be tired of fighting and wishing you had the UK's benefits system. Fingers crossed that it doesnt come to that.
However, as a young person with no qualifications (and even if you did have them), you would have a much brighter future in the UK than in Spain at the moment. And don't forget that you arent entitled to anything in Spain in terms of help anyway.
Spain is a great place to live if you have a good job. It is a terrible place to have to fight your way through life. I wish you the best, but in 5 or 10 years you may be tired of fighting and wishing you had the UK's benefits system. Fingers crossed that it doesnt come to that.
Apr 11th 2012, 3:54 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
You need to have something going for you. With no qualifications you'll have to rely on your charm and good looks to get a badly paid bar or retail job.
And I have a feeling that Emily may be semi-literate in English and Spanish also. Not wanting to be anal, but from the looks of her written language skills and having not finished her education.
The most important thing is to have the will and she certainly has that. So that may get her an opportunity or two. But after fighting for so long, people eventually lose the fighting spirit
Apr 11th 2012, 4:03 pm
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A positive mental attitude is fine, but it needs to be tempered with a healthy dose of realism or it can become delusional.
Emily has all the arrogance of youth which I suppose we all had at her age, thinking we knew it all and the boring old farts knew nothing about anything! She will need to learn that it's not what SHE thinks employers should be looking for that matters, it is what THEY want that is important.
Emily has all the arrogance of youth which I suppose we all had at her age, thinking we knew it all and the boring old farts knew nothing about anything! She will need to learn that it's not what SHE thinks employers should be looking for that matters, it is what THEY want that is important.
Apr 11th 2012, 4:35 pm
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Re: A young couple, stepping on the dreaded lader!
Apr 11th 2012, 4:37 pm
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Take no notice, they do it to all the Newbies, even ones who post more than once they attack. Stay, don't be put off, what the forum needs is more posters, their nastiness is diluted then, it becomes less audible, if we get enough newbies maybe they will be reduced to no more than a murmur.... There are some genuinely nice posters on here, stick with it.
Apr 11th 2012, 4:37 pm
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And its my oppinion what I think of the UK...
and Im entiteled to it..
Ive lived in Estepona for 10 years and its safer then where I come from in the UK Ill bet anything on it,.....
and Im entiteled to it..
Ive lived in Estepona for 10 years and its safer then where I come from in the UK Ill bet anything on it,.....