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Wednesday 13th 34F, a mixed, wintry outlook. Feeling a bit stronger today.
A walk to the lanes with gales roaring in the trees. Rain was followed by blizzards of large, wet snowflakes blowing across the fields. Yet again, the forecasters are not in agreement.
Broxit: It seems my earlier warning about the expense of buying goods, online, from the UK, was hugely optimistic.
A £10 T-shirt will now cost £37 delivered in Denmark by the time Danish VAT and customs collection charges are added.
BE VERY CAREFUL about ANY purchase from outside the UK. The UK sales website may try to hide the hideous truth from EU buyers! If the goods originally come from China then expect to pay even more charges! I can't imagine eBay[UK] or Amazon{UK] will be selling much to the EU in future. Not once the headlines begin to hit the EU press.
No doubt the same customs and taxation rules apply to secondhand goods and even family gifts. Only items below £8 will not be charged. Keep crowing about your great victory, Boris [The Clown.] I wonder if Boris uses Chump's fake news script writer? Or does he just plagiarise?
The expats living in Spain are waking up to a hideous new reality too. 3 months maximum stay? The less well off are selling up now. Because they don't have the massive, minimum income requirement to be a self-supporting resident. What about health insurance? Now multiply Boris' fake news victory for every member of the family!
I just hope there's room for all the Ex-pats coming back to the UK. If they can! Just make sure that all your family members have the right to UK residence! You could be in for one hell of a shock! Does your British bank account still exist? Many lost their lifeline as the British banking sociopaths closed up shop for EU residents. Too much of Boris Paperwork to make you worthwhile holding onto! Only foreign money launderers and shell company, property investors hold any interest from now on.
What about obscenely inflated UK property prices? It won't be much fun dossing in a single, council estate garage, or wandering homeless, in the wintry UK. Not after your cheek-by-jowl Costa sunshine bungalow joins the endless Spanish property market queue for vanishing Ex-pats! Costa Ghost Town anybody?
Spain is going to catch a very nasty cold too. Unless the 360,00 Ex-Brits can be quickly replaced. Don't forget you'll need that foreign lingo if you want to go truly native! Your daily visits to the familiar British Pub [pub británico] and Los Greasy Chipper [astilladora grasienta] may soon cost you incredibly dear! Hablas español, matey? Thought not.
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