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Considering moving to the Costa Blanca from sunny Yorkshire

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:16pm
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Ianandmary

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Hi all, I am new to the forum and would appreciate a wide a varied response and genuinely accept any advice for consideration.

I am 54 and about to retire in 5 months from the Civil service after 33 years of a quite stressful job, my wife is 50 in march and works for the NHS and doesnt reach her normal retirement age until 60. We have a very bright 11 year old son who is doing very well at school and will no doubt go to university if we stayed in the UK.

We are asking for advice about re locating to the Costa Blanca and look for advice about pleasant areas, safe good schools etc. We have stayed in Calpe, Altea, Albir, Benidorm, Pinar de Campoverdi etc.

We have a house in Yorkshire which will have no mortgage and maybe we can rent this out for around £600 a month and my pension will be around £1400 a month, currently my wife earns around £2000 a month in UK, this will stop if we move to Spain obviously. I am aware that well paid jobs are hard to come by especially if you dont speak Spanish or Catalan etc. 

We have a villa in Turkey that we have owned for 15 years and love it but dont wish to retire there. It is maybe worth around £65.000

My background is in security and justice, at senior management level, I dont want a full time job after 33 years of it I need  to semi retire.

My wife is a Doctor and born in the Philippines, she was privately educated and from a very privileged background hence her ability to work overseas as a professional , she practiced in Canada and the Bahamas which is where we met 16 years ago. She works in the UK as an Operating Department Practitioner, since our son was born to lower the crazy hours and  stress of actually practising and being a wife, mother and Doctor. She does want to work doing something.

Our son will need to go to a decent school, but having researched private English speaking schools, we will not be able to afford  that if we want to eat as well, so appreciate it may well be a state school  and Spanish language. He does speak some Spanish, We will not want to damage his chances of having a good education and going to university, as we owe it to him to support his intelligence as much as we can.

As you can see, I have been as honest and hopefully open as possible and would really appreciate your advice, guidance and help. We are not posh or stuck up and I come from a very working class background, also being from Yorkshire we are not blessed by being able to sell our houses for lots of money to buy something, remember a 3 bedroomed detached house here costs around £160.000, I say this because i have bumped into a few people in Spain who said " i sold my ex council house for £450.000 and bought a nice villa here", thats not possible if you are from Yorkshire ( well most of it anyway)

Best Wishes, Ian, Mary and Rafael.

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