Moving to Spain as an Expat

Spain is a very peaceful, beautiful and well developed country. When you start living in Spain it offers well developed infrastructure and living in a modern environment. Spain also offers a good mixture of modern architecture, historical and is also rich in its culture

Spain as an expat Destination

Almost 6% of the population among living in Spain are expatriates, which includes immigrants from different countries. Spain has a warm climate and because of this it is a very famous retirement destination. Spain has low prices of apartments and house and have high standard of living. Many of the other expatriates come to Spain to open different bars, night clubs and cafes for the tourists.

Life of the Expatriate in Spain is suitable for those who pursue a relaxed life. Locals are friendly and trust worthy. Spain attracts huge numbers of tourists every year.

Job of the expat

Key facts Expat should know about living in Spain:

  1. Once you have selected a place to live in Spain, first thing you should do is to register yourself with your whole family including your children at town hall for the “Empandronamienta”. This is very critical because it allows the local government to do elementary things such as purchasing of car and registration for school.
  2. Water shortage is a problem in southern Spain and sometimes limitations are being made on water usage.
  3. People living in Spain have to get an NIE (NumeroidentificationExtranjeros) number. This number is issued by police of the specific area. It is a law that all the people who are not from Spain have to register them with their local authorities.
  4. All the people who use motorcycle in Spain have to stop at the pedestrian crossing, so be very careful when you cross the road or driving a motorcycle.
  5. Most of the banks in the Spain open only at mornings.
  6. If you are doing job in Spain one thing should be kept in the mind that Don’t make your pocket empty at the end of month by thinking about getting pay at the start of month, this is so because mostly people doing jobs there get late payment. Not in the first week of starting month.
  7. You should know one thing more that the people of Spain have more than one name from which they are being called by others.
  8. Different languages are being used in different cities of Spain.
  9. People of the Spain don’t wear clothes according to the weather, In fact they wear according to the climate.

Unemployment rate is very high in Spain due to which high competition for job is. Opportunities for jobs are present in bars, restaurants or teaching foreign languages. Most of the people in Spain are there due to the jobs. There is a shortage of workers in technical posts.

Jobs in Spain

Living in Spain and can’t find out best job for you? Don’t worry because this article will help you a lot in finding new jobs which will make your life easy and your tension will be gone. Survey was being done in Spain from different people and it was known that teaching and being a doctor in Spain are the most respectable jobs

Some of the best jobs which foreigners, in fact, Spanish can find out in Spain:

The Doctor

The Medical profession is the most respectable profession not only in Spain in fact all around the world. Medical professionals have high scores because they give very much importance to the patient’s opinions and views. Doctors are required in Spain because it is being said that there are not proper doctors, clinics, and hospitals for the people. They have to pay a huge amount for getting treatment because they are private. Elders are also being cared by the relatives rather than any nurse or proper medical panel.

The Teacher

The Atmosphere of the Spain is quite bad in schools. Many of the foreigners go to Spain and star doing jobs as a teacher to teach different languages not only to the children in schools in fact to the young people also who are interested in learning new and different languages and learning of these languages can be for any reason.

Journalist

Another job which Spanish or even foreigners can do in Spain is starting off life as a journalist. By providing different information of different places across the world or only in Spain. The only thing which is required to be a good journalist is that you have to be good in speaking languages. You should have a grip on accent being spoken.

The Lawyer

Being a lawyer is a very respectable thing. You can get a high reputation through this profession. People of Spain are not very much happy with the work of their lawyers. Lawyers enjoy the total confidence of the party to whom they are taking a side. So if you are looking for a job and have a degree of a lawyer than Spain can give you aopportunity. Don’t get late by sitting at home and wasting time.

 Restaurants and Bars

If you don’t have any experience or degree you can go to the different bars, clubs and restaurants for finding out a job. Because this is a place where the extra burden is not being put on the workers. But if you still don’t want to do a job at these places, you can find out a place and have some money in your pocket then you can also start your business from small level by making your own clubs and bars. These are the places where people do come for spending their time and for having something to eat.