MAJOR Challenges Moving to SPAIN - How To Rent an Apartment, Open a Bank Account and more
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Issues When Relocating to Spain
In today's video I will share my personal challenges I faced moving to Valencia, Spain. Prepare yourself for the endless Spanish bureaucracy. Get all your documents in order and make extra copies of everything. It will help you a lot if you learn some Spanish especially necessary to communicate at all administrations, government institutions and medical centers. Also very helpful if you get a local number. You would need to call real estate agents, offices etc. It is very challenging to rent an apartment as a foreigner in Spain, but not impossible. You would need to pre pay a few months of rent as landlords are scared of shady tenants (the law is on the side of the tenant). To open a Bank Account you need your passport, NIE, taxes and health insurance. Getting a health insurance in Spain is not very difficult. As for the taxes make sure you consult with an accountant as after 183 days of stay foreigners are suppose to pay taxes as well.
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00:36 Intro
00:37 Language
01:34 Translation App
01:48 Communicating in Spain
02:45 Renting an Apartment in Spain
05:13 How to open a Bank Account in Spain
06:59 Get a Local Number
07:20 NIE
08:32 Health Insurance in Spain
09:03 Taxes
My wife, who is from US, and I are living in Spain for the last 10 years. She always tells me that the most important thing to live in Spain after speak Spanish, is to understand that you are an immigrant, not an expat. Spanish people are nice with foreigners, but the system have his rules with the immigrants and you have to follow them if you don't want any problems.
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Love your content! Thank you for all of your helpful details! We’re a new sub!! 👍
We’ll be in Valencia at the end of January! We were last there in June 2019. Can’t wait! All the best!
This seems to be a very charming place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
We are in Valencia this week based on your thoughts about this city. It’s really lovely here. We have been thinking about the possibility of moving here, but this video is making my head spin! Oh, boy.
I hope to move to Spain next year. The advice and information that you provided was extremely helpful. thank you so much.
Thanks for the tips!
great invormations and helpful thank you antonetta
Glad it is helpful 😊 thanks
moving to VLC in September! Can't wait! love all your videos
That’s great 😊 I am happy you picked this city!
If you are already working in Spain, you pay self-employment taxes and have legal residence. You can register (assuming you are not) and request your Social Security Health Card (which is not incompatible with private health insurance), which will give you access to Spanish public health (considered the 4th best in the world).
Very informative! Thank you.
Glad to hear that :)
Great video Antoanetta! Im moving to Valencia by the end of september so this were great tips for me, specially with the apartment issue since Im also going to work remote to another country.
Thank you! Don’t Get discouraged just keep looking for an apartment and you will get it. Some landlords are nice and willing to go around :) Good luck 👍🏼
Thanks for posting! Very useful. Hope you can post a video on cost of living in Valencia. All the best on your channel!
Thank you! I am planning a few videos in this direction 😊 I hope you are subscribed so you won’t miss them 🙏🏻
Very informative video with great tips for someone moving to Spain👍
Thank you 🙏🏻 I hope it’s helpful!
Great video. Thank you!
Thank you too for watching 😊
I need to save that one. Thanks for the info 👍
Important information in this video. A+++. After watching I will probably get professional help with taxes and moving to Spain. We have 3 years to prepare so I feel pretty good about the process. Not sure if I want to rent or buy.
Thank you so much 😊 for watching! Oh, you have plenty of time things can change globally as we know. Buying might be easier 👍🏼 All the best to you!
Hi. Great video! Can you recomend the best order/tips/life hacks to get bank account/health insuranceNIN/apartment/phone nr/etc.? Thank you in advance! :)
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Nice vlog. Liked and subscribed
Thank you for watching and subscribing 🙏🏻
@@ANTOANETTA my pleasure! We have a vlog too, we are a Swiss family living in the UAE. Don’t hesitate to have a look and subscribe if you like it. Have a wonderful day.
I didn’t know that Gloria Estefan moved to Spain
On healthcare: Spain has Universal Healthcare, no? I mean are you required to have private one too on top of that or was it only necessary because you are self-employed and/or not legally a citizen?
I am sorry, I am a bit lost, so what's the 1st step when coming to Spain ? I am moving to Valencia next week. From what I have understood is that I have to go to the police station to register my address... I am renting through Uniplaces. Am I on the right track? Thanks!
You need health insurance in order to open a bank account ? That’s crazy
Can you please recommend a relocation agent?
Hi.great videos.
If I move to spain on non lucrative visa and gain residency after 5 years, can i work once im a resident? or do i have to be a spanish citizen to work and bow long until i gain citizenship.many thanks.jason
This video could have been one minute. “Just get a Spanish Solicitor.”
Why does it seem so difficult.? My wife and I want to move to Spain but it seems very difficult.
Administration is worse than in communist Russia.
Are you not Spanish Antoanetta?
How about if you have dual citizenship
USA and Republic of Ireland.
Do you need a Spanish phone number or register with the police?
I was looking into Barcelona, but now Valencia looks really nice. I didn’t really find the locals to be very friendly in Barcelona. What has been your experience with the locals in Valencia?
I lived in Barcelona for a month and it was the first city I wanted to live in....but Valencia is different. Its like a big small city. People are nice, but it would be better if you know some Spanish :) Barcelona is more international in all aspects. You should visit Valencia for sure!!
@@ANTOANETTA Thank you I will.😃
Barcelona is more expensive to rent. However it is more international. Some people have developed some phobia to tourists and visitors in Barcelona due to the large numbers they receive on a regular basis.
Tourists are every where you go but it is easier to find a qualified Job, especially in the lT sector, although it used to be easier.
Some people (a minority) only speak catalán in Barcelona, regardless of whether you speak to them in spanish. Catalán is a nice language but learning two languages can be cumbersome and difficult if you just landed.
Valencia feels like a big City and has the best Polytechnic university in Spain if you are into engineering. It will be the European capital of Design in 2022, so it is undergoing some make up to pedestrianise the old City centre which is One of the largest in Europe.
The university of Barcelona is among the best 200 universities in the World accordingly to the latest international ranking released just a few weeks ago.
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@@caballoloco100 In Valencia we do speak Catalan too. And in greater percentage than in Catalonia. Not in Valencia city downtown districts, but in some peripheral ones and surrounding cities, there are immigrants that learned Catalan and not Castilian because at work is the language everybody uses.
From my understanding, by law they can only collect one month. Not 4 months. They’re taking advantage of foreigners and that’s illegal. 4 months is outrageous.
This is also stated on Idealista.
One year or less is considered a holiday rental. So that may be why they will get you for so much money. Signing a longer lease will help too.
Another huge benefit… speak the language.
Yes I know that… not sure if they are taking advantage or just being scared from bad tenants… I understand both sides but paying 6-8 months in advance is a lot. I have friends who had to pay 8 months advance.
The fact that you have to tell people to learn the language of the country they're moving to is, at least, surprising
Well…I’ve been getting by for a long time with English only. You would be surprised but in the States I was getting frustrated with Latinos, Russians, Asians the fact that they live 30 years there and barely speak English…
@@ANTOANETTA Don't get me wrong, I meant it in general, not only about Americans. I would never blame anyone for having trouble learning a language or not being able to learn it at all. What I find shocking is the fact that the need to speak the local language has to be mentioned in the first place.
Congrats for the video, BTW, really informative!
@@dafnefigal3576 thank you 😊 I appreciate your comment. Yes sometimes the most obvious things need to be mentioned.
I can't believe they would not accept your European ID card? As a European, all this bureaucracy should be easier for you :(
Take a lawyer they can help you with bank en other paper work
Make sure you ask a lawyer ho much money to bring to his office.
Get a gestor they will fix everything quickly
Hey Antoanetta, How are you? Are you single?
No, she has been waiting for you.
@@nebovas9432 She's going to wait a lot longer.
@@Resmith18SR I think you guys would be a great combination.
@@nebovas9432 Ok, have her email me.
@@Resmith18SR I was joking. She is OK, but look how she touches her hair every second, that is a bad sign. She has some deep problems with her father. Her mother most likely has no character. She is independent but lonely. What I love about her the most is the way she eats food, she really loves it. She cannot love man, she can only find him interesting. She will spend her life jumping from one place to another, from one food to another food. Living with her would be turning yourself into a part of her luggage. She mentioned many times that she has a partner but she never showed him, not once.