I ve been living with my family in Spain in a rural area in Extremadura for a year now, best choise i ve made, we have free wather all year around, alot of irigated land to grow vegetables, olive threes, alot of fruits, free fire wood for the winter, natural river pools for the sumer time, it is a living paradise, the houses and the land sell cheep, evrything good and legal, if anybody wants to move in my area i can help, we need good people here, contact me anytime.

i doubt its the water that taste bad. its the system to store the water that taste like crap get a direct water post for the drinking water and it will taste like a dream

Logical.

You may try to separate degradable trash and dry it to eliminate the bad smell. It can be a fun project.

You pays your money, you take your choice.

I feel like most of these issues you have, can be solved with some brainstorming.

Any older house in any country including the US can have these problems:)

Wish this guy still did videos, as he is very good at presenting these informed videos.

Great video, I am thinking of moving to Spain

Increase your electruc capacity,get an additional water deposit etc. Campo life is great just have your eyes open when you buy a property. Get it checked so you know the potential issues to tackle. Beats England any day.

Bins. Are you serious. RECYCLE!!!!!

Hi, at the post box part of the video, was the post box at carefoure car park in Coín?

the no flush toilet paper is gross

Spain dos seem like a 3rd world country, just look for a property and see how they live.

Go away, no problem!

I live in a town near Marbella and even our electrics suck hahah turn 2 hob rings on and the kettle and microwave at once the house trips

Hey mate, it's pronounced COME-PO not camp-o! Cheers

Mate just get a small trailer instead of putting dirty garbage cans into the cab of your vehicle.

What I miss is any understanding of systems. Why do you hardly see solar panels, but you do see hot water boilers on roofs? Water is always treatable and if you have a natural swimming pool (i.e. without chlorine) why not use a comparable system to improve your water. You improve the soil structure if you develop ditches, but especially retention lakes, on your land. The compost toilets are ideal for making the land fertile again. That is also why those campos are so cheap is the idiotic way of agriculture that they use there as 'localo'. I have Spanish neighbors in the Netherlands and I have to laugh at how clumsily they do everything or don't do it at all. It's mentality and laziness that makes British and Spanish people like each other so much, perhaps? hahahaha

I guess it's unfair, but, as a longtime General Contractor, I would remedy the electrical problem by upgrading the source, installing new panels and rewiring the house....for the water, you seem to have a decent system but may I suggest a water softener? I would also be able to install new copper plumbing throughout. It appears you're killing 2 birds with one stone by hauling your non recyclable rubbish AND getting the mail in one trip....try doing all of these things over a period of time to diffuse the cost......eventually you'll have a modern paradise........

been living in north of Spain for the past 6 years,Asturias , love it,not been easy with the house issues but getting there

perfect

I used to rent a room in a country house in Portugal,all the very same problems,electricity cannot supply demands,shit water,rats,flees bugs everywhere eating everything,plus water heater boiler was working on gas what you buy from petrol stations(in a month we had 3 weeks warm water) but Place was beautiful and calm.And this trap swallows many expats when they see the whole house with land is just 20k.Well you need to re wire,we build,we water suply the whole place,basicly you should keep just the walls(red) and rest must go,than solar panels,windmill,well,clean new ibc 1000litre's to keep water there and clean it somehow all the time to can use it.I remember many households had a 10.000litre silo in garden and once a year firefighter truck comes and fill it up with fresh water.If you are used to the super-urban lifestyle than this might be a step back for you,but calm slow lifestyle can compensate you,but also you need income from somewhere,if you just buy a house there and you must go work locally,you will live your life in same flipflops for years,if you know what i mean

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There is ALWAYS a good reason why native people do not live in a place. It might be attractive but you cannot eat scenery..

Is it good in summer to live there? Are there thermal waters and good hospitals?

It was always my dream to live in spain, and ironically met my ex-partner (in the UK, who was from Caceres but had left there 20 years earlier to live in the UK). Prior to our divorce after 14 years when visiting his family etc, I found Caseres (although a historical landmark town) too quiet and a location too far from airports (Madrid 4 hours - and poor infrastructure. Fast forward to 2019 (5 years post divorce) I fulfilled my previous dream and sold up and bought a place up it the mountain overlooking Benalmadena, Malaga. Unfortunately 1 year after arriving, my boy who I had gone there with, was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia, and passed 9 weeks later in june. So in 2022 I sold up and returned to the UK due to the massive loss and unable to further adapt etc. I would say prior to my own unfortunate personal experience my boy and I loved our 'new life' there, the people, landscape, clean air and great sunsets etc. People should fulfill their dreams. But make sure you have family or an established social network around you which makes such a life change that more easier to transition into, because it isn't just the paperwork /language you need to get by.

sounds like Pakistan!!! Welcome to third world vibes in first world locations!!

Can i travel within Schengen area with this car note i am buying car in spain as a tourist visa

The electricity problem isn't just limited to Spain, Sweden has allot of older houses on the countryside that have quite basic/old electrical systems. My granma had a drängstuga (farmhands cabin) that we used as a summer home , it was built in the late 17th century, it had quite basic electrical system. Running both our microwave and washing machine would be enough to trip the circuit breaker. Think it only went up to like 10 amps, not that much.

And please, stay away from our medical treatments too because many british come here every summer only to get pissed and after their stupid stunts end up in our hospitals, not to mention the amount of pensioners coming here for surgery because of their crap health system.

This is all a pile of BS. I don't know where you live but it looks to me that this place is for agricultural use only and someone built a house there illegally. I lived in the UK and Ireland and trust me , the quality of the buildings there particularly if you don´t live in a big town or a good area is truly third world. I f you live in Spain in a place where your house has been legally built you have your bins removed. it might be less often in remote areas but definitely it will be done. Plumbing, etc depends of the money you want to spend. If you want a professional plumber doing a proper installation for you, you have to pay the man. This is not India in the XIX Century.

You have to do all these in many parts of California

I must say good to know that nothing is really too different once you do the proper search and set expectations. Everything mentioned in this video is what I deal with in the canadian countryside - bins, water (well as as well which needs upkeep and regular testing), poor electrics so heavy reliance on wood or solar for heat, and so on. Only difference is Canadian winters are horrendous. I think this sort of choice lends itself to those that prefer solitude and self-reliance AND can upkeep maintenance. Once health issues start to take hold.... then that becomes the different decision as this sort of lifestyle does require some hardiness

That's the same in Australia or rural places in larger countries with rubbish. Separate organic & cardboard from plastic. Have a biopit where things biodegrade (if you got a bit of land and naturally in a rural area you do. You will find that you will only have plastics to drop off.

I don't see any of those as a problem. Living this way is a life without or with less government intervention. And that is priceless.

For stinky bins use a trailer or pickup.

Water is the big issue. Well water is not free you have to pay for repairs and upkeep.

Spanish Countryside looks like sh1t and "They Are Way Too Expensive For No Reason". Abandoned land and houses above 70k. So much wasted.

How does your water system filter out Teflon particles? Teflon is sadly everywhere in nature now. It's cancerous. Even in the US they are barely starting to test for Teflon... and that's only in some liberal states.

Don’t some pumps have a card reader connected to pump?

Hey, nothing strange or unusual in you video. It's usual for most farms or rural areas throughout the world. Not news for me.

How bad the quality of the water is for your hair? I see.

Get some cats. Rat issue solved.

fake fake fake!!!! never trust a mid aged bold tatted man

i'd like to see an episode next called "why stupid people moving the Spanish Countryside might be a BAD idea!"

Good job, likeable guy.

Brits... for me they are immigrants like others, I have never understood why they use a different word. Maybe they think they are better than other immigrants?

My wife and I lived in-land for 15-years. (Jaén Province). We were mid-fifties when we started out in our small village population 200 give or take. I would do it all again but…around six-years ago we realised that our property and life there might be difficult in older age. Possibly need to be close to hospitals, other medical services, shops - no shops in our village - and a choice of eating establishments. Further it can be very cold further inland with snow and ice occasionally. Quite different from life near the Med. We now live in a pretty unspoilt village/pueblo just 10 mins from a quiet Costa. Just as well we made the move as this year has been a nightmare with me spending 10-weeks in hospital and developing a serious dose of herpes zoca. Having our 24-hour Centro de Salud in the village has been a literal life-saver for me. I think, therefore, age is a determining factor in life and we all age.