Any advice would be brilliant

Welovehexie wrote:

Hi everyone.
I and my family (wife, dog, cat)will be moving to the Malaga area in January next year. Just wondering if any of the equestrian members have any advice or suggestions.

How do you find the standard of work reliability pricing etc for a farrier/herrador compares to the UK? What's the going rate for a set of shoes? Where would you recommend to look at for starting a farriers business? Are there any British vets or farriers working around Malaga?

Any advice at all would be brilliant.

Thanks.

Harwill. 🐴

Hi Harwill,

Good luck with your move, hope you find work as a farrier ,

I Moved with my family to the Costa Blanca 11 years ago !

I mainly done metal fabrication work in the uk, but found in Spain little work in that area, also quote prices seem to be much lower than in the uk.

Any way your work is more specialist so I hope you have more luck !

Tony

Hi Tony

Thanks for your reply. Good info. I figured the skilled labour rates would be cheaper but as I don't know any Spanish farriers  I don't know how much yet.

Hoping to have 6mths to find our feet when we get there.

What did you end up doing? You obviously made it work as you are still there 11 years later. Was there anything you found more difficult as a Brit?

H.

hi there have you seen the new rules that came into force as of 1st july 2014 ,uk citizens who go to live in another country will lose all rights they had to the national health service basically you have to sign off when you leave the uk you then have to register in spain  and until you have this in place you will not get your residency (you also have to prove you have sufficient funds)  i believe the fee to join the basic health scheme to be 60 euros per person going up to 157 euros per person when you are 64, my partner and i were planning on relocating next year so look around for some private health quotes 52 and 54 years of age  and came across "provision medico " they have offices in and around malaga they came in with the following 42 euros with discount of 4% if you paid annually, i am not sure if everyone is aware of the changes i certainly  was not , hope this helps and all the best with your new life,tony