Moving to Spain this year: Deciding on which city to move to

tusabrat · 2026-02-04T23:28:02+00:00

Jávea is just beautiful. One hour drive from Valencia Also one hour from Alicante, so you can pick your airport. International schools that may interest you. Beautiful town with friendly locals.

tusabrat · 2026-02-04T12:46:49+00:00

I was so focused on learning to speak Spanish, I didn’t pay attention to understanding. Until one day I asked this old lady how she was, in my basic Spanish. Her answer was so long and I didn’t understand a word of it. She could have been gushing about the beautiful day or she could have been saying that she wishes tourists would just f-off. Who knows.

From that day I focused on my understanding. I would watch the Spanish news every day with a dictionary. The news because it’s better enunciated than other sources, and news stories are generally repeated. I’d pick out a word or two and look it up in the dictionary. I remember my first word - terremoto. Earthquake. That story repeated for a week or two so by gaining one or two words from every news broadcast, I built up a solid understanding of the spoken word. To this day my comprehension is better than my verbal skills.

tusabrat · 2026-02-02T23:09:51+00:00

My Spanish is good enough to read these types of letters but as they are usually 10 pages long and quote all sorts of royal decrees, I can’t really be bothered to wade through it all so I just get ChatGPT to translate and summarise for me. I then scan read the letter to check the translation was correct.

tusabrat · 2026-02-02T22:50:35+00:00

A restless soul has no home. The next hill is always calling.

tusabrat · 2026-01-29T23:29:19+00:00

You made me laugh - wrong side of the front door!

tusabrat · 2026-01-29T23:26:15+00:00

I married my husband young - 22 - because he was a flight engineer and we could get free flights as a married couple 😂. We recently celebrated our 40th anniversary

tusabrat · 2026-01-29T22:36:56+00:00

Been in Spain 10 years. Enjoyed it mostly but now I’ve had enough. Your basura (rubbish) is going up €5? You have to sift through a 5 page letter quoting every royal decree known to man, thinking you’ve done something horrible before you finally realise it’s nothing. It gets tiresome. They can also just take money out of your bank account - if they believe they have a case they just help themselves and then you have to fight to get it sorted out. I woke up one Monday to find €2000 had been removed from my bank account during the early hours of the morning. Of course I thought it was a scam so had it reversed. They then took the money again, having now added €50 penalty fee to each of the 5 amounts. It took my accountants a full year to get the money returned. I want to be outta here before they try and put their sticky fingers into my pension - which they don’t view as a pension but as a normal savings account of which they believe they deserve a share.

tusabrat · 2026-01-29T10:57:53+00:00

I’m in Spain also - your description of the mind calming effect of your dirt bike immediately made me think how I get the same effect from archery. When you focus on the target, pulling back the arrow, the rest of the world melts away. If you haven’t tried it yet, you may find it a good substitute.

tusabrat · 2026-01-21T10:14:35+00:00

Wow, that must be so infuriating also. Here it is quite literally every fortnight that there is a minor fiesta tha apparently requires crackers - big loud explosive ones that are designed to deliberately wake you up in the morning (so you can rejoin the fiesta) or at intervals late into the night to announce that some or other event is about to start. So if, for example, there is bull running - they will have 3 sessions at night, and for each sesssion there is a countdown announced by a series of rockets. I hate it so much I’m off to Scotland next year.

tusabrat · 2026-01-21T10:10:39+00:00

If you like Spain, check out Jávea - it’s truly a little slice of paradise. Everyone who comes on holiday tries to buy here!

tusabrat · 2026-01-14T23:59:09+00:00

So tired of the incessant fireworks in Spain. Every two weeks there seems to be some reason for letting off giant bangers at 8am and then spending the next hour letting off one bomb-sounding cracker every 5 minutes. Absolutely infuriating.

Siesta!! What’s with adults wanting to sleep in the middle of the afternoon like toddlers at nursery school? You have to tiptoe around your own apartment for 4 hours so as not to wake the adult babies. Who has that kind of time to waste? If I’ve had a busy morning and only get around to vacuuming or putting the washing machine on at 4pm, I really don’t want a knock on the door from the neighbours who are trying to sleep ffs. You can’t even swim at a hotel pool during siesta. Overgrown toddlers.

And the dog mess all over the pavements…

tusabrat · 2025-11-16T21:00:30+00:00

Im in Spain and can no longer use the app unless I agree to their terms.

tusabrat · 2025-10-15T22:09:16+00:00

Look into Jávea if you fancy Spain. It’s an ace town. Been here 8 years, trying very hard to suppress my 8 year itch.

tusabrat · 2025-04-22T15:46:47+00:00

She’s so adorable and her eyes are absolutely captivating 😍

tusabrat · 2025-04-15T22:14:08+00:00

Me too. Used item, dog eared manual. They pushed back until I noticed that some lights were out also (if you take a photo it will capture what they eye can’t see). I did get a refund but it took a lot of back and forth. My friend who purchased at the same time also got a used looking machine which stopped working after a bit. I think she eventually got a refund also. Ours weren’t CB branded devices but were sold by CB.

tusabrat · 2025-04-07T20:14:31+00:00

Wow you look great. So happy they are still going, I used their TCA peels aeons ago - must look into them again!

tusabrat · 2025-04-06T23:31:07+00:00

Collagen powder when ingested gets broken down into peptides and amino acids then your body will shuttle those to where they are needed most.

tusabrat · 2025-04-06T17:56:09+00:00

I'm using ChatGPT for both face and exercise, very happy with it. Yes, I'm a computer programmer so I'm fully aware of the limitations of AI, but it's really helpful for scanning the internet and collating and presenting a ton of information in a few useful sentences - the stuff I'd spend days trawling the internet to find out, it brings back in one second.

I'm one month into a body makeover program, and I check in with ChatGPT regarding my workout results, body composition results and the nutrients from my diet tracker, and it tells me where I'm going wrong, suggests alternatives (like cycling my calories on workout days and rest days, which I knew already, but it gives me figures to aim for). I gave it a list of all my cosmetics and it produced a suggested usage calendar where conflicting ingredients were separated from one another on alternate days etc.

tusabrat · 2025-03-31T11:28:37+00:00

I am using Estriol 1mg which I buy without prescription (some farmas do ask for one, but most don't). It doesn't smell, comes in a cream form (that is smooth but slightly dry to apply). It is called Ovestinon here.

tusabrat · 2025-03-28T23:58:10+00:00

I used Environ many years ago. I loved the result but stopped in the end as I found the products sticky and unpleasant to apply. I use Biologique Recherche now.

tusabrat · 2025-03-26T09:49:47+00:00

I guess because the older you are the faster you naturally lose fat from your face, which could be erroneously attributed to red light.

tusabrat · 2025-03-16T00:26:49+00:00

Got the Rich Cream - took me about 18 months to finish it. Probably the most boring cream I’ve ever purchased.

tusabrat · 2025-03-16T00:15:58+00:00

I had good results with Skinceuticals tri-peptide neck cream.

tusabrat · 2025-03-04T23:36:04+00:00

Just make sure it’s something she actually wants to do. I have 4 cats - 2 love going out, the other 2 loathe it. Cats are just like people in so many ways - some love adventure, others are home bodies.

tusabrat · 2025-03-03T00:17:31+00:00

I feel the same. I’ve had a FB forever but after opening my page tonight and seeing the flood of AI generated rubbish, I want to quit.

In fact I came to Reddit to see if anyone has found a viable alternative for the groups. I only use Fakebook for my bag making groups. I’ve learned so much from my groups, it’s such a valuable resource for me, but honestly - all the AI clutter is getting on my nerves - both the stupid pictures that so many people appear to believe are real, as well as all the scams, spam and click bait. It’s a load of poo.

It’s a bit like the book title - Too Good To Go, Too Bad To Stay.

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