If retirees no longer flock to Spain in such numbers, perhaps a new generation of digital nomads is heading for the sun.
“It’s hard to know who is buying what, a surge in UK purchases could be drowned out by a post-bubble pandemic,” said Mark Stocklin, a real estate expert who writes for Spanish Property Insight, a website that offers advice for anyone looking to buy. in Spain.
“I realize that there are more digital nomads who rent places and move from one side of their countries to another. Yesterday I spoke with a web designer who spends most of his time here but has a business in the Netherlands.
Spain passed a new start-up law last year that offers concessions to nomads. They would qualify for lower tax status for nonresidents at the four-year rate of 15 percent instead of the 25 percent rate for residents.
Aimed at UK citizens and other non-EU citizens, it will allow Travelers to stay for up to five years during which they can apply for residency or a visa.
In France, Claire Price-Jones took French citizenship and, like others in Europe who have done the same, is slowly breaking away from Britain.
According to French government figures for 2019, some 175,000 Britons are registered with the French authorities.
“My husband is not a citizen yet, so he has to go through all the bureaucratic hassles that he is trying to work out,” said Bryce Jones, 70, a retiree living across the English Channel in Normandy.
Like many Brits living in France, she remains angry about the treatment – or not – of the British government after the Brexit vote.
UK politicians did nothing to help us when they brokered a deal after the Brexit vote, it all goes back to individual European countries. She said.
Denis Abel might have expected his retirement from Norcia, in central Italy, to be peaceful.
However, the combination of the 2016 referendum and the Norcia earthquake stripped her of her rights as an EU citizen and tore her apart for 16 years.This is incredible century house.
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