Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

labp04

Hi Happychappy,

Reckon if you click on this link
http://www.ybw.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=22 and post your question you'll get run over with replies! Good luck with all that etc. My wife and I do something similar in Turkey which we find cleaner, friendlier and, at the moment (but prices are rising) cheaper.
cheers :beer:

Savvy_Sue

downshifted wrote: »

Does anyone do this and do you have any advice to pass on? I am interested in renting somewhere warm and living inexpensively - very mse!

I think you would find a lot of helpful advice in the 'Living Abroad' thread - not everyone there lives abroad all year round.

I'll move you in there in a bit, give people a chance to spot this first!

moonrakerz

Most domestic buildings/contents insurance only cover you for absence of up to 30 days. Lots of people go away leaving everything they own in the UK uninsured !

Bob_the_Saver

Go for it, we do - leave Britain to sink into the rain, ice, debt and snow and don't worry about it.
(I apologise to everyone else)

downshifted

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Go for it, we do - leave Britain to sink into the rain, ice, debt and snow and don't worry about it.
(I apologise to everyone else)

Lovely! So where do you go, do you rent, how do you find the place and what (roughly) does it cost?

Oldernotwiser

We've spent one to two months in Spain for several years and have booked accommodation through Ebay/holiday websites and agencies on arrival. We've paid between 400.00 and 600.00 for a month's rent and found that the longer you stay, the cheaper it is. Many people advertising holiday lets are happy to look at discounted long winter lets if you ask them.

You need to remember that the sort of accommodation which is suitable for the summer isn't necessarily suitable for the winter, for example, nights are cold in Spain. We've normally been to the Costa del Azahar, around Valencia.

pollypenny

Having been stuck in Florida for five weeks because of the snow last year, we're glad we missed it. But i was concerned about the house. Basically you have to put on someone to take care of the house, although the Canadian 'snowbirds' winterise their properties before going south for the warmth.

weanie

Help/Advice re sky card and viewing in Spain.

My sister-in-law has a flat in Spain and she paid for a large sat dish to receive a variety of channels. She used a pace box from UK and now the card has expired. She wants me to help her ot get a sky card but if i order one, I have to register it to my box here in UK and suspect that this will mean that she cannot use it herself in her box [which will be different]

Is there any advice for me in finding a card for her?

Many thanks in advance

droopsnout

Was it a subscription card (i.e. she paid monthly subs to Sky) or was it for all the free channels only?

weanie

She had bought a secondhand Pace box from ebay which had a blue card inside and she got the usual freeview stuff but now sky has changed to white cards and she has asked me to get one for her but i myself do not subscirbe to Sky here in UK
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.