With house prices rising along the Costas, an increasing number of foreigners are buying up houses or entire abandoned villages in Castile and Leon, Galicia, La Rioja, Navarre and other previously unfashionable regions Graham Keeley reports:
British expats are increasingly choosing to live in alternative Spanish cities as the Costa del Sol loses its shine Friends in Seville thought Gemma Boys was mad when she told them she wanted to move to Valladolid, an unfashionable city a long way from any popular southern Spanish city, but that did not stop her.
“For me there is a real identity here. It is small enough that you know people here. I wanted to form a part of the community here, so it was important for me that I worked for local schools,” said Ms Boys, 39, who manages The Country Cottage language academy. Climate change was blamed for temperatures soaring over 40°C in some parts of southern Spain last summer, making the Mediterranean coast less attractive to northern Europeans who suffer in the heat.more foreigners can work from home in villages or towns in the Spanish countryside while earning a foreign salaryBritons and other foreign nationals are attracted by the “golden mile” of major wineries in Castile and Leon as well as the lush green countryside.
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