Hi There,

I have been researching for about 6 months on and off.

1. Learning language
2. Types of jobs
3. Health care, tax etc
4. Looking on the net for Properties in Spain

Now my main reason to move to Spain is not for money. I run a good commercial cleaning company here in the UK. Hopefully by the time I am ready to move over I will have some people in place to run the company while I am abroad so will hopefully have an income in the UK.

Now I have worked out that if I am not greedy and purchase a cheap property in Spain of about E68,000 EUROS I will not have much of a mortgage in Spain at all and my deposit I will put down will be about ?15, - ?20000 then once my house is sold I would be able to put down another ?25,000 + fairly easy. I have worked out that on average there is about 12% to pay on top of purchase price for tax etc.

I am looking for properties that would be about 15 - 20 minutes walk to schools.

I have children of 7 - 3 so one will be - 9 - 10 the other 6-7 when we eventually move over.

So my question is can any of you that are in Spain recommend any areas. I was originally looking at Valencia, Alicante. The type of property would be at minimum of 3 beds 1 bathroom and as much land as possible.

I know that some house run on generator and have water deposits as no mains.

Any help would be appreciated at least so I could look into it.

I am planning on visiting Spain again in April.

Many thanks

Dave