Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:54pm
There's no easy answer to your post. I know several ex pat couples who live full time in the campo between Pego, Oliva and Denia. Some have had no problems (but they have many nearby neighbours) and others who have had small scale thieving from outhouses and on one occasion came home to find several gentlemen of a 'travelling' persuasion systematically stripping their orange orchard. Their van had been hidden from view surrounded by trees, so they blocked them in and called the Guardia. Brave but foolish. Fortunately ended in court not hospital.
There was a spate of thieving 18 months ago on my urbanisation outside Adsubia, eventually traced to itinerant workers picking the local orange groves. But there were also gangs of professional Eastern Europans working this area not long ago, thankfully collared by the police.
In all honesty I wouldn't want to do what you're considering, but I prefer to be in the proximity of neighbours. If you install good house security measures, and maybe get a dog, you should be fine. There's crime in every country, but we shouldn't blow it out of proportion.