Well we’re still planning and things change almost daily. We do think we have a plan – but we have a few more Zoom meetings to make sure it will work before the decision is final. Why are our plans changing? Croatia is joining Schengen on January 1, 2023. So our plans of bouncing between …
Closing a chapter in your life is always painful and for me memories around closing of chapters always stay vivid in my mind. They are at least as vivid as the memories of the new chapters. But that’s only true when you know the chapter is closing. Graduations, Divorces, Moves, etc. Not including marriage, I …
Things change. After the last several years we know that better than most. We’ve been planning a move to Spain for several years. Our original plan won’t work because of Visa issues and misunderstanding on our end. This was going to set us back around a year. It was a pretty devastating blow. But as …
We knew that this wouldn’t be as easy as it seemed like it would be in February when we spoke to the immigration attorney. It all just seemed too easy, and it was. The Non Lucrative Visa. In February we were told we could get this visa and continue working jobs in the USA. Last …
I absolutely love infographics. When we started thinking about moving to Spain, I started researching every aspect of life in Spain I could think of. While doing that research I came across so many wonderful infographics, and I did not save them. Since making the decision to move, I have started saving infographics relating to …
We started by doing some Google research when we were first considering retiring overseas. Spain has a few Visas that we were interested in for retirement, the non-lucrative and the golden Visa were the most desirable for retirement. The non-lucrative visa is for people who do not need or plan to work while in Spain …
Deciding to move to a country where you don’t speak the language takes a lot of preparation. We started learning Spanish on Duolingo in July 2019. We both did at least 5 minutes of Spanish most days until the end of 2021, for a total of nearly 30 months of daily Spanish practice. By the …
When we decided we wanted to live near Spain’s high speed rail we discovered Valencia city. It’s an hour to Madrid by high speed rail and an hour to Barcelona by ferry over the Mediterranean. They have an international airport. The location was exactly what we were looking for. When we looked into the city …
In January 2019 we went to London and Hyderabad India and we had an adventure. Travel was difficult, but the experiences and the different perspectives we were exposed to were wonderful. We started to play with the idea of retirement in the European Union. After a few months of research we decided Spain would be …
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