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You might also look into southern Portugal.  The cost of living is generally lower than Spain. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > My husband and I will be retiring in 2 years.  We don’t want > to spend the winters in Florida, but looking for a warm > climate.  Does anyone have any experience living in southern > Spain?  What is available for accommodations and the going > rate?  Is speaking the language a necessity?  Does anyone > have a better suggestion, we will be 58 in 2 years. > * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping.  Smart is Beautiful

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If you don’t want to leave the U.S.  Check out St. George, Utah. This small city has mild winters, although the summers are HOT. It sits in a beautiful red rock valley and is close to some of this countries most scenic areas:  Zions and Bryce National parks, Lake Powell and more. Prices are reasonable.  This is a retirement mecca. Got questions?  Get answers over the phone at Keen.com. Up to 100 minutes free! http://www.keen.com

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Thanks for your reply.  We don’t intend to buy, but only rent.  Southern Florida in Jan. and Feb. is in the 80’s. Northern Florida around St. Augustine stays more around the low 70’s and 60’s (which is perfect for us). * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping.  Smart is Beautiful

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> Thanks for your reply.  We don’t intend to buy, but only > rent.  Southern Florida in Jan. and Feb. is in the 80’s. > Northern Florida around St. Augustine stays more around the > low 70’s and 60’s (which is perfect for us).

It may be news to you, but I’ve seen snow flakes in northern Florida, and ice on puddles at Melbourne.  Snow Flakes were once seen in the Miami area.  Yes, it’s usually fairly mild in southern Florida, but a cold front does get to Miami now and then.  Florida is not 100% reliable for beach weather until some time in March. The same can be said about Cancun, and the Bahamas, and ….

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> My husband and I will be retiring in 2 years.  We don’t want > to spend the winters in Florida, but looking for a warm > climate.  Does anyone have any experience living in southern > Spain?  What is available for accommodations and the going > rate?  Is speaking the language a necessity?  Does anyone > have a better suggestion, we will be 58 in 2 years.

My wife and I are in your age group and are retired. We visit the Costa del Sol most winters. We stay with friends who have a villa in Marbella, or rent an apartment, or stay in hotels. You will have no problem finding accommodation, apartment, villa or hotel, for anything from one week to 3 months. We paid 200 ukp per week for an apartment. This included all charges, but several agencies add the electricity on to the base charge. They expect the electric bill to be high as you need heating in the evening. You may be offered wood to burn in a fire in some villas or apartments, or a portable bottled gas heater, or some electric heating. The main thing is that you will need some form of heating. As LZ said you can expect it to rain and the buildings are not designed for northern weather so the heating will help to keep the place dry. The area is awash with northern europeans who have English as their main or second language. The Spanish assume that the English won’t bother to learn Spanish. Many of the shops, restaurants and service industries are run by English people as most ex.pats like to deal with their own nationals. In fact the Costa del Sol is not a good place to go to improve your Spanish. If you don’t intend to buy you could spend the first year or so visiting several potential countries. You may find your requirements change drastically when you retire! Good hunting, John

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A lot of Brits retire to Almeria. If you want an amusing account try and find Nord Rileys "Spain."

> My husband and I will be retiring in 2 years.  We don’t want > to spend the winters in Florida, but looking for a warm > climate.  Does anyone have any experience living in southern > Spain?  What is available for accommodations and the going > rate?  Is speaking the language a necessity?  Does anyone > have a better suggestion, we will be 58 in 2 years. > * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find

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My husband and I will be retiring in 2 years.  We don’t want to spend the winters in Florida, but looking for a warm climate.  Does anyone have any experience living in southern Spain?  What is available for accommodations and the going rate?  Is speaking the language a necessity?  Does anyone have a better suggestion, we will be 58 in 2 years. * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping.  Smart is Beautiful

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My parents have a house in southern Spain and I stay there several times a year. You could buy a small villa for around 16M pesetas but of course the price varies enourmously according to the type of house and also the area. I don’t know what the climate is like in Florida during the winter, but sdon’t expect southern Spain to be warm. Temps will be around 10-15