is it a good idea to retire to Spain without a way back - Page 2

Lorraine86 wrote on Thu Dec 9, 2021 7:53pm:

Can you still live 8n spain if you own an apartment after Brexit

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Lorraine86 wrote on Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:19pm:

Hi,

Can you tell me please what is a noon lucrative visa 

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Thank you lorraine

tebo53 wrote on Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:17pm:

A non lucrative visa (NLV) is a visa you can apply for to be able to move to Spain and then to apply for residency. 

You will need to apply for a visa from the Spanish consulate in the UK. You will need to meet the income and healthcare requirements. 

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A non lucrative visa will not allow you to work in Spain. 

Here is a link to visas that apply to Spain:

https://visaguide.world/europe/spain-visa/

Steve 

Lorraine86 wrote on Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:38am:

Thankyou so much tebo53 this is really helpful if I have a residencia would it apply to me? 

Gilly09 wrote on Sat Feb 2, 2019 7:05pm:

My advice would be to stop looking at 'what ifs' - the truth of the matter is none of us know how long we have got on this earth.  Could be soon, tomorrow, next week or 30 years time!!

Most people go back as they miss grandchildren that come along.  Yes some do lose their partners and then go back to the UK.  Some lose their partners and stay in Spain as that is their home and carry on with their life and social life regardless of changed circumstances....

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If you concentrate on the possible illnesses etc you will never get anywhere in life. Go for it, treat Spain as your new home, stop thinking of UK as a 'bolt hole' and enjoy your life.

Today my friend in the UK is cold and fed up with winter.  Today I had a brilliant walk on the beach in the sun (lovely and windy) with my dog and sat outside and had a lovely cup of coffee.

No I am not a spring chicken but this life in Spain can keep you active if that is what you wish - stay active eat healthily and love every single minute of your new chapter.  Old age really is a state of mind and sunshine is the best cure.

Enjoy - Gilly

Cheryl wrote on Sat Dec 8, 2018 9:13pm:

I´m not sure what care you are talking about that is available in the UK. I have recent first hand experience of there being very little.
My father had 3 visits daily from carers who had time for little more than to fill out their paperwork. The last one noted that he felt ill and promptly le...

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...ft. He´d had a stroke and was dead within the week.
Mum was at this time in hospital after collapsing and shattering her ankle (exhausted from caring for Dad for years with little if no respite) and would have been discharged home whilst still non-weight bearing to continue caring full time for Dad if she wasn´t able to pay for a private care home during her recovery.
Where was I in all this? Driving myself mad trying to work, keep an eye on Dad who lived an hour away and refused to go into a home whilst Mum was in hospital, whilst also spending as much time as I could with Mum.
Dad had been in hospital a few times before this, about 45 minutes drive away, and I could have cried with the lack of care on the wards and I refused to stick to visiting hours only. There was an elderly lady, probably with dementia, wandering the mixed ward with her hospital gown hitched up around her waist, totally naked underneath, looking for the toilet. Nobody came, she wet herself. A gentleman in the next bed mortified that the nurse told him there was nobody available to get him a bed pan so he must wet the bed, crying in shame, an elderly lady left with a salad sandwich which was just spilling all over the bed, she didn´t have the strength or co-ordination to eat it by herself, alarm bells ringing constantly, but ignored. On one of Dad´s discharge dates, I arrived to find him sat in the chair surrounded by his own urine. The nurse had removed the tube from the catheter bag but left Dad attached. He told me he had been sat there for about 3 hours. Because he was down for discharge, no lunch had been ordered for him so he had not eaten since breakfast. He was diabetic.
Mum, at 82 and just a week post surgery, in a 1200 GBP a week private nursing home was left in her unheated room ( in February with snow on the ground outside) when the heater broke with just an extra blanket. I was told that an engineer would come, but nobody did and no, I couldn´t bring our own electric heater in as it hadn´t been PAT tested. I found the person in charge and said I was going to start shouting, and I wasn´t going to stop shouting until they found a heater. Miraculously, one appeared.
I think I´ll take my chances in Spain.