Of all the questions we get asked, and we get asked a lot of them, this one comes up again and again.
Will I make friends out there? Will I fit in? Will I have somebody to actually go for a coffee with?
Because you could live in the most beautiful apartment in the world, and if you do not have a community around you, you will still feel like this was not the right move.
So this week Sandra sits down with Ali Meehan, founder of Costa Women, a community of women living in and moving to Spain that now spans the Costa del Sol, Gran Canaria and Mallorca. Ali arrived in 2002 as a remote worker, before anyone called it that, and for a long time the only person she saw apart from her husband was the courier man. She joined a book club to fix it. That book club became Costa Women.
You’ll hear:
✔ The real reason why finding your community and making friends is so important
✔ Ali’s own first years in Spain as a remote worker in 2022
✔ Why Costa Women was born and who it’s for
✔ The myth that everyone who moves here ends up in the bars and what is actually happening now
✔ How to start building your community months before you get on the plane
✔ How to find the right group and community for you
✔ What your first few weeks should look like, and the mistake that turns a move into a long holiday
✔ What has changed about who is moving to Spain, and why
✔ The negative press about Spain, and the reality on the ground
✔ The fastest ways into the language and the culture
Find Ali and Costa Women
Costa Women is a community for women already living in Spain and for women still thinking about it. Local groups, business networking, book clubs, an annual conference and an online space, all of it built by women who have made this exact move.
Costa Women: https://costawomen.com/
Costa Women Business Growth: https://costawomen.com/businesses/growth/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CostaWomen/
Ali on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alimeehanspain/
And when you are ready to work out where in Spain you actually fit:
📘 Take the Location Quiz: https://wlcostaproperties-quiz.netlify.app/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes&utm_campaign=quiz
or
📞 Book a call with us: https://calendly.com/warner-wlcostaproperties/property-consultation?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=consult_call
Recommended next episode: Fell in Love With the Costa del Sol This Summer and Want to Make the Move? Start Here (Episode #115)
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