Hi all,
Iv been around the forums for almost 2 years but only post occasionally at the best of times, so Im sure nobody knows me or my background here but I used to live the good life in Sydney Australia for about 3 years and have been back in the UK just over 2 years now - I came home partly for difficult residency problems and partly to be back with family. I'm 28, bought a house since being home and single living a decent life.. but truthfully im still struggling being home and especially in winter months im really unhappy. Covid aint great neither but we are all in the same boat so I dont like to use that as an excuse.
Moving to Spain has always been on my mind for many reasons since being back from Australia, spent alot of time there as a kid too as my family had an apartment in Calpe. I did research into this and had a rough idea what to do pre brexit, but now I'm unsure whats changed and struggling to find the right information on what I must do to legitimately be able to work over there just casually at first to see if like it/want to settle, and ofcourse eventually residency if I stay longterm. Im a tradesman and Id be looking at working possibly self employed or for a building company over there. Luckily iv got a friend who is also keen to go over, and my parents are looking to retire over Spain for 6 months of the year (although if I were there im sure theyd stay 12 month eventually if I were to settle) so that eliminates the family problems I had whilst in Australia plus obviously travel time difference, which makes Spain feel like the right place for me.
This will be id imagine once covid settles... So basically my question is how and is it still possible to just get up and leave nowadays.
Cheers.
Iv been around the forums for almost 2 years but only post occasionally at the best of times, so Im sure nobody knows me or my background here but I used to live the good life in Sydney Australia for about 3 years and have been back in the UK just over 2 years now - I came home partly for difficult residency problems and partly to be back with family. I'm 28, bought a house since being home and single living a decent life.. but truthfully im still struggling being home and especially in winter months im really unhappy. Covid aint great neither but we are all in the same boat so I dont like to use that as an excuse.
Moving to Spain has always been on my mind for many reasons since being back from Australia, spent alot of time there as a kid too as my family had an apartment in Calpe. I did research into this and had a rough idea what to do pre brexit, but now I'm unsure whats changed and struggling to find the right information on what I must do to legitimately be able to work over there just casually at first to see if like it/want to settle, and ofcourse eventually residency if I stay longterm. Im a tradesman and Id be looking at working possibly self employed or for a building company over there. Luckily iv got a friend who is also keen to go over, and my parents are looking to retire over Spain for 6 months of the year (although if I were there im sure theyd stay 12 month eventually if I were to settle) so that eliminates the family problems I had whilst in Australia plus obviously travel time difference, which makes Spain feel like the right place for me.
This will be id imagine once covid settles... So basically my question is how and is it still possible to just get up and leave nowadays.
Cheers.