The very basics of the plan are that I leave and go to stay with my Mum who lives in Mazzaron, which is only 40mins traveling from Murica. I can then start work and send the money back to the UK to pay the bills at our house.
My wife and girls will stay here till the house sells, by which time I will hopefully have found us somewhere to rent and then they can fly out and we will all live happily ever after!!!!
It's that easy (well why not?)
Sunday 26 August 2007
Tuesday 21 August 2007
Preparing
We have started this Blog quite a while after we started preparing for our move to Spain. So in this post I'll explain what we have done, the important decisions we have made and bring the story into real time.
After being offered a job we had to sit down and way up the pros and cons. I was working in the best job that I have had with more potential of any job that I have had. We have only been living in our present house (which by the way is a fantastic house and is on the market at the moment!) for a year and our 3 girls are all in schools that they are happy going to and are doing very well in their education. Why the hell move then!!!!
Well like I said in our first post, moving abroad as always been a dream of ours and the reasons to stay are only excuses not to go. Saying that it did take us a while to get our heads around it and believe that we were actually going to go for it!
So how do we go about it? There are so many things to sort out.
The choices we have made!
Thats it, the house is up For Sale!!! We looked at renting it out but have decided that when we are out there if we see a house we really like we want to be in a position to buy. Like I've said before we're going for it 110%.
We plan on renting when we get there but do not want to miss out if an opportunity arises.
We are going to sell the car as we have been advised that it is much easier to buy a left hand drive car over there, but in selling a right hand drive we would lose a lot of the value.
After being offered a job we had to sit down and way up the pros and cons. I was working in the best job that I have had with more potential of any job that I have had. We have only been living in our present house (which by the way is a fantastic house and is on the market at the moment!) for a year and our 3 girls are all in schools that they are happy going to and are doing very well in their education. Why the hell move then!!!!
Well like I said in our first post, moving abroad as always been a dream of ours and the reasons to stay are only excuses not to go. Saying that it did take us a while to get our heads around it and believe that we were actually going to go for it!
So how do we go about it? There are so many things to sort out.
- The House, do we sell or rent?
- Transport, do we drive or fly.
- When we get there do we rent or buy.
- Education, where are the schools? do they except English Children?
- Health Care, do we need private or can we use the Spanish National Health? (Oh by the way I'm a Diabetic so I need to sort out getting Insulin out there.)
The choices we have made!
Thats it, the house is up For Sale!!! We looked at renting it out but have decided that when we are out there if we see a house we really like we want to be in a position to buy. Like I've said before we're going for it 110%.
We plan on renting when we get there but do not want to miss out if an opportunity arises.
We are going to sell the car as we have been advised that it is much easier to buy a left hand drive car over there, but in selling a right hand drive we would lose a lot of the value.
Sunday 19 August 2007
Our Story
We are a normal, average family. Mum, Dad and 3 girls.
We have lived the normal happy life together for the last 14 years i.e. Man goes to work, wife looks after the house and the children.
Over time we have achieved better jobs and gone on to buy bigger and better houses.
Therefore we are just like many, many family's out there in the rat race of life.
About 8 years ago we thought 'There Must be More to Life Than This!'
Thats when we first thought about going to live in a different country.
Now thinking and doing are very different things!!!
We started looking into where we could go and what we could do. This is where it starts getting hard. You obviously need 2 things. 1. you need somewhere to live and 2. you need to work to earn money to live. Where do you start? Do you look for somewhere nice to live and hope you can find a job or do you find work and then look for somewhere to live near the work?????
The place we started was right here on the World Wide Web!!!! It's amazing, the information you can find here! I'm sure everything you'll ever need to know is here, if you can just find it!
We looked on the estate agent sites and found lots of properties in Spain. We searched sites and found the areas we would like to live (and could afford). We prepared as much as we could from the comfort of our front room. Then we made the decision that we had to go and have a look.
Wow. It's all different when you are there!!!!
We arranged for the children to stay with Grandparents then booked a 2 week trip to the South of Spain. We hired a car and spent 2 weeks going to see some of the properties that we had found on the net and checking out the areas that we thought we would like to live.
What answers did we find?
You have got to be very brave to go for it!!!!
Theres still a big catch! You need to be there if you find a job. You need to be there and be in a position to buy if you find a place thats right for you.
It's like those programs you see on TV, you have to make that decision, sell up/rent out your house and go for it!!!!! Now thats brave!
Did we do it???.......... NO. It's as simple as that. We came up with all those reasons/excuses that I'm sure many people do and stayed right we we were.
So what has changed? Why this Blog?
I have been given the chance of a job!!! So thats it we are selling up and going for it 110%.
So read the following posts to find how we go about it and how our adventure pans out................
We have lived the normal happy life together for the last 14 years i.e. Man goes to work, wife looks after the house and the children.
Over time we have achieved better jobs and gone on to buy bigger and better houses.
Therefore we are just like many, many family's out there in the rat race of life.
About 8 years ago we thought 'There Must be More to Life Than This!'
Thats when we first thought about going to live in a different country.
Now thinking and doing are very different things!!!
We started looking into where we could go and what we could do. This is where it starts getting hard. You obviously need 2 things. 1. you need somewhere to live and 2. you need to work to earn money to live. Where do you start? Do you look for somewhere nice to live and hope you can find a job or do you find work and then look for somewhere to live near the work?????
The place we started was right here on the World Wide Web!!!! It's amazing, the information you can find here! I'm sure everything you'll ever need to know is here, if you can just find it!
We looked on the estate agent sites and found lots of properties in Spain. We searched sites and found the areas we would like to live (and could afford). We prepared as much as we could from the comfort of our front room. Then we made the decision that we had to go and have a look.
Wow. It's all different when you are there!!!!
We arranged for the children to stay with Grandparents then booked a 2 week trip to the South of Spain. We hired a car and spent 2 weeks going to see some of the properties that we had found on the net and checking out the areas that we thought we would like to live.
What answers did we find?
You have got to be very brave to go for it!!!!
Theres still a big catch! You need to be there if you find a job. You need to be there and be in a position to buy if you find a place thats right for you.
It's like those programs you see on TV, you have to make that decision, sell up/rent out your house and go for it!!!!! Now thats brave!
Did we do it???.......... NO. It's as simple as that. We came up with all those reasons/excuses that I'm sure many people do and stayed right we we were.
So what has changed? Why this Blog?
I have been given the chance of a job!!! So thats it we are selling up and going for it 110%.
So read the following posts to find how we go about it and how our adventure pans out................
Tuesday 14 August 2007
Reason for this Blog
We are writing this blog for our friends and family to keep track on what is happening in our lives and so we can look back and fondly reminisce (hopefully!) our adventure.
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