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Wilbur wrote on Tue Jun 7, 2022 10:30am:
I'm always a fan of do it yourself in these situations.
We left the UK last year and our council tax was £180 p/m. The level of public services for this was pretty poor, especially with regards to bin uplifts and keeping public spaces and walkways clean and well kept.
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In Spain we pay about €150 per year for the services and the bin uplifts in particular are excellent.
However, I accept that other services aren't so good and certainly the amount of weeds growing on pavements and roadsides is an issue. Nonetheless, I look after the areas outside my own place and my neighbours and it takes a few minutes a couple of times a week. No biggie.
I reckon if folk were back in the UK they would tidy up the areas a bit more themselves. So why no do it here?
I don’t live in Spain, but do have a house in orihuela costa, I find it laughable that people are blaming brexit on all of there woe’s, I know a ot of people who have lived in Spain under the radar, but now have to leave, because of new rules, this is the chance you took years ago, you lived the life but returned to England to collect your medications etc, as fir the rubbish on the roads our small urbanisation employs a man to do the cleaning etc. doesn’t cost much but well worth it .get together with your neighbours or at your yearly meeting with the administrator and suggest it comes out of community fees.
