Spain - The Emerging Market
" More Britons flee for a life in the Sun" screamed the headline in the Daily Express (29.03.06). The UK daily was reporting that many highly qualified professionals, numbering at least 100,000 per year, are leaving the UK for Spain.
Why? What is prompting this exodus? The reasons seem to be many; not least that Spain is a great place to live.

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Can you afford to retire to Spain?
Reports circulating from a US financial planner indicate that 40% of those who retire aged 55 with over $1m need to return to work 5 years after they retire to fund their lifestyle.
So to sustain your lifestyle in Spain will you really need more than $1m or £533,000? I know this may sound strange, but surely £1 m ($1.8m or 1.4m Euros) is enough to retire on?

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Moving To Spain - Taxation and Finance
Personal circumstances vary greatly but you may cease to be liable to UK tax if you cut all ties with the UK and become domiciled abroad.

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Moving To Spain - About Your Pension
If you are retiring abroad, you can continue to receive your UK State pension. If you are moving permanently to Spain, you should get yearly increases in your pension.

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Moving To Spain
Check list for a move to Spain
As removals companies have countdown diaries to help you remember all those important elements needed before the "Big Day". I felt it would be useful, for those seeking to relocate to or acquire a holiday home in Spain, to have a "Check List" featuring those items that required specific attention and which could be ticked off as they were completed.

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Moving To Spain - Arrival in Spain
Would be relocators who have followed my family’s migration from South West London to our new home in Spain, may have already been assisted in their search for that dream home by our initial six easy lessons to a comfortable transition to life in Spain.

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Moving To Spain - "Yes, But Why Spain?"
I know time flies when you are having fun but I can hardly believe it but the 4th anniversary of our arrival in Spain is fast approaching. As a consequence, I have started to reflect on my Spain, the Spain I have grown to know and love.

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"This must be New Spain"
It's mid Saturday morning and I am in the supermarket picking up some last minute bits for this evening's barbecue.The ranks of England's faithful are filling their trolleys with excellent bottles of "Comportillo" - red and white wine at 1.65 Euros per bottle - in anticipation of a joyous afternoon and evening. I have spotted in the queues at each checkout, around ten customers deep, perhaps twenty Three Lion shirts.

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