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Buying in Almoradi

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:34am
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AntoFlan

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Hi to all,

My wife and I are thinking of buying an apartment in Almoradi, and would appreciate any information on best areas of town and areas to be       avoided.  Also, any views on local estate agencies.

Thanks in advance

Anthony

Richard080943

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:18pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:18pm

Avoid all of it!  It´s mosquito ground zero.  Main road drains stink throughout the summer.   Try it for yourself before buying.

Richard

jimtaylor

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:58pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:58pm

Come off it Richard. I go to Almoradí twice a week and have yet to encounter a mossie, and the drains don't smell unless there's a blockage, which can and does occasionally happen everywhere.

It's a thoroughly nice town, with a real Spanish feel to it but a sizeable expat community of various nationalities, and with an active town hall who lay on regular events.

If our house ever gets too much for us to cope with, it would be our number one choice of a town to move to.

John56

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:08pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:08pm

jimtaylor wrote on Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:58pm:

Come off it Richard. I go to Almoradí twice a week and have yet to encounter a mossie, and the drains don't smell unless there's a blockage, which can and does occasionally happen everywhere.

It's a thoroughly nice town, with a real Spanish feel to it but a sizeable expat community of various nationalities, and with an active town hall who lay on regular events....

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If our house ever gets too much for us to cope with, it would be our number one choice of a town to move to.

Jim, I really thought it was only a matter of time before you replied to this unbelievable slur on Almoradi.

AntoFlan

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:18pm

AntoFlan

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:18pm

Thanks RIchard,

Must remember to bring my Bio-Hazard suit !

:-)

Anthony

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Cheryl

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 4:06pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 4:06pm

I agree with Jim about the town itself and the drain situation here in Spain generally, at times. As for the mozzies, I think Jim scares them off because they are in Almoradi and everywhere else although I have personally found, (and Accuweather usually confirms) that the lower lying areas have more mozzies than elevated areas. The lakes, drainage and irrigation channels and the Segura are ideal breeding grounds for them. Almoradi, Catral, Dolores etc are less than 10 metres above sea level, Crevillente is 130m and I live about 150m above. I always get bitten more on the plain than in the hills but there is a lot you can do to combat them.
Mozzies appear to favour blood group O, sweat and alcohol! Mozzie nets are great to keep them out of the house and various sprays, lotions and colognes put them off. If I get bitten, I apply heat to it, usually by heating up the rim of my lighter and then placing it on the bite.
Jim, are you blood group A, perfectly cool and teetotal?

jimtaylor

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 4:21pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 4:21pm

Hi Cheryl, I'm O, perspire a lot, and drink whisky. If there are mossies around, I do get bitten, but in thirteen years plus here I've never even seen or heard a mossie where we live, in the flat huerta between Rafal and Callosa. That's in spite of an irrigation canal passing under the parking spot in front of our house, with a sluice gate beside it. If I go somewhere that has open water then I do get bitten.

Cheryl

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:11pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:11pm

Well that's my theory well and truly smashed Jim!

ColinL

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 6:03pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 6:03pm

Definitely worth renting for a while to experience the place before committing yourself to a purchase. The main square is nice. We have friends who bought slightly outside of town and are plagued with flies, not mozzies. It's so bad that they've reluctantly put it back up for sale after less than a year. They have lived in Spain for years and say they have never experienced anything like it before. 

Golandrina

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:09pm

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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:09pm

I have lived in Almoradí for almost 14 years and love it.   We have several supermarkets, Mercadona, Lidl, Dia, SuperDumbo, 2 x Hiperber plus 2 or 3 smaller ones.   There are also many other different types of shop, a very good health centre, a bus station (but not many buses), town hall (ayuntamiento), churches, football stadium, a large Saturday morning market that takes over many streets in the centre of town and many bars and restaurants.   The population comes from all round the world, in the apartment block where I live there are people from Spain, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, India, Iceland, South America, Morocco, Denmark and I am sure that I have missed one or two.    The nearest State hospital is only about 20 minutes away.

I certainly don’t have a mosquito problem.   If you use window and door screens it is easy to keep such things out of your home.

The Spanish residents in the main, just as in any town, can be very friendly and if you try to learn their language in order to communicate they will ‘bend over backwards’ to help you.

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