Thousands of Over-50s and pensioners are in despair over their futures as they note the daily pronouncements of the ruling McBroons and wannabe Cameroons on how to fix the fiscal mess in which the UK wallows.
Likewise the decline in public service standards and a real threat to day to day living as deep budget cuts strangle services are major concerns.
Whatever the outcome of the General Election, living in Britain is going to be tough, specially for those on fixed incomes thinking about retirement. Neither McBroon, who started off by selling our gold reserves for a quarter of today’s price and has gone steadily downhill since, nor Cameroon hold a magic wand to divert us all from their Never-Never land of national debt and family hardships.
So shall we go or shall we stay is going to be the big debate?
While what happens in the UK over the next decade of paying down the McBroon borrowed billions is unknown, there is a place with a lot of “knowns” that is tempting many over 50 and retirement couples to emigrate.
Spain offers a lifestyle that attracts tourists and property owners like no other place on earth:
Year round warm weather even during the often balmy winter months.
Excellent sporting facilities including the favourite pastimes of golf and water sports.
A stable and caring Spanish society that welcomes and respects others, especially the elderly and very young.
Excellent infrastructure of roads, railways, modern free health facilities for EU citizens.
Two-hour flights from nearly 20 UK airports to mainland Spain, a bit longer to the Balearics and Canary Islands.
Superb local food with the Mediterranean diet becoming so popular as a healthy diet with ingredients that are fresh and plentiful.
Very few problems for non-Spanish speakers as English is now the second language of Spain.
The above benefits are fixed and not subject to market fluctuations nor the vagaries of McBroon that have deleted the “Great” from Great Britain and messed up the lives of millions of its citizens.
Spain’s biggest mistake was allowing over capacity in its important property sector and that means a bigger choice of genuine bargains from hard-pressed developers and Spanish banks with many repossession bargains to offer Brits and other north European buyers.
Many of these villas and apartments are ideal for fulltime living or as 50-50 homes for couples wanting to avoid drab UK winters and the inevitable depressing economic climate in the dark years ahead.
