Maybe I am biased as I have always loved SPain, and i have been around a bit for my tender age!

The key to Spain is the travelling. Even though all things told it takes a day to get here, with the travelling to and from airports and the wait there, the general public think it is only a couple of hours away by plane. Added to this the cheap cost of flights and the "safe" perception of Spain and there is no need to mention the weather etc etc. Its no longer cheap to live here, but it is great.

This is a rather harsh opinion but I have little sympathy for the majority of people that have had their houses bulldozed. Most will have tried to skip the lawyer. This would NEVER happen if they were buying a property in the UK yet they come to a foreign country with a language they dont understand and ommit the lawyer to save a few grand. Quite incredible.

If they have been duped then i do pity them, but that happens in the UK too and everywhere else.

LRAU is a different matter, sheer lunacy from the SPanish government