Buying an apartment in Spain these days???

artyboy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82011190#Comment_82011190

My parents had a house very much in that neck of the woods. First in on a new development, as close to the cliff tops as possible. It was a nice, relatively sleepy traditional town back then.

Sadly over the next 20 years it turned into a massively overdeveloped concrete jungle. They got shot of it soon after.

A great shame, some of my best childhood holidays were out there - the ability to just hop on a (Monarch/Britannia/Dan-Air) flight and get there knowing all your stuff was already sorted for a week away, that was very nice.

If there's a lesson to be learned, I guess it's to be conscious that what you buy today could turn out to be something very different tomorrow. DYOR and all that…

monkey-fingers

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82012464#Comment_82012464

What are your views on retirement and health?

6 months ago, I was healthy as anything. I never considered health issues. I got a foot infection which has gone really bad. I now need physio. My doctor is concerned that because my body is still trying to fight the issues, my blood sugars are through the roof. Pre-diabetes numbers.

Now in my 50s, I'm going to be difficult to insure. This is from absolutely nowhere.

Obviously, other people develop cancer suddenly too.

What would you do if one of you suddenly had a medium term health issue.

brianposter

Spanish health service is very good if you use a GHIC card. The biggest problem is knowing where to go if you have a trivial medical issue.

LillythePink

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82014528#Comment_82014528

We are not without health issues so that is a concern, but with the right medical insurance, we should be ok as it's mandatory to have it.

We are quite lucky in that there is a surgery in our village and we know that there are facilities around if there is anything serious as a builder we know was airlifted to hospital from our village to Granada within a few hours of a heart attack (he was supposed to visit us but didn't show due to this)

We will have to have a more serious think when we have some concrete plans to move down there