Little Britain

The area that we live in I call little Britain. And that is not just the Urbanisation we live on. We have 83 properties on the urbanisation with all but 10 owned by brits.
The surrounding area is mostly of the same percentage of ownership.
All the bars and restaurants for a five mile radius are mostly owned by brits. All the supermarkets (ALDI, Eroski, Carrafour, SupuValu) are local owned, however, all the staff speak English and are proud to show off their linguistic talents.
So much so that trying to use what Spanish we have proves more difficult than you think. It is possible not to speak Spanish at all! If you do need to go to hospital, the Town Hall, The Police Station or the doctors there are more than enough translators to go with you. At a cost, usually 15 – 25 euros an hour.
At weekends we can go to any number of bars and restaurants all owned by brits. In fact the local plaza has twenty bars or restaurants brat owned, 3 Indian, 2 German, and 2 Spanish restaurants.
The Shoe, hardware, paper, confectionary and clothes shops are all owned and operated by Brits.
We did not move here because it was ‘Little Britain’ it just suited us, near the sea, in the sun, the type of villa we wanted and could afford. having said that we could have got more for our money now than we did 5 years ago but we did not have 20/20 hindsight. LOL.