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When I emigrated to the Costa del Sol in 2001, Marbella and the surrounding areas was a very different place to the one that has grown up around me during the recent property boom.
I firstly settled in a lovely apartment in Elviria, perched on a hillside with the most incredible views of the Mediterranean. In front of me was open countryside where I would often walk, with the scent of pine trees drifting on the breeze. Sounds heavenly? It was.
Life seemed so simple back then – lazy days reading on the sun-kissed terrace, lively evenings with new-found friends and a bottle (or three!) of cheap vino in the only bar in Elviria, just relishing everything that was so very different (and better) than my life had been back in the UK.
And then everything went mad. The boom began!
That open countryside in front of me became a housing complex and golf resort, I started working harder and harder, and the last 7 years kind of passed me by.
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