Orihuela Costa - no public services, no amenities and a dump

[simmy]

I know this forum is concerned with Torrevieja but I am unlucky enough to live in Orihuela Costa. What a mistake I made buying here many years ago.

I see in this week's Round Town News that a Spanish politician accused many British ex-pats of living in ghettoes, well I am one of them and I bought here in good faith from the Spanish.

My ghetto has streets that are not swept, kerbs overgrown with weeds and is crime ridden with break ins every other night and people living in fear.

There are an inadequate number of rubbish bins causing them to be permanently overflowing. Those that there are are broken and often without lids.

The last collection of green waste was a month ago today in this area and the piles of rotting branches and leaves is now stinking. Surprise, surprise - we now have a rat problem !

Outside my house is a manhole cover. When it rains, the lid comes off and raw sewerage runs down the street. A nearby pump house stinks all year round.

Play areas were installed but have become overgrown and vandalised and there are no parks or gardens to sit in anywhere.

I have tried to keep my bit of street clean. I have cut back the weeds that block the pavements and swept up after others that drive by the bins and eject their rubbish from their car windows (yes Spanish as well) but I am fed up of picking up shitty nappies, syringes and part eaten pizzas.

Many of the presidents of the various communities around here have done their best and been to the town hall but nothing has been achieved. As one said recently, you only bang your head against a brick wall so many times and after a while, when it really hurts, you give up.

We have all phoned and written, often in Spanish, to voice our complaints but nothing really achieved.

My urbanisation is one of the many which lies behind La Regia. Many of them are like ghost towns full of properties up for sale. A near neighbour who bought for 170,000 euro just sold up for 120,000 euro so keen was he to escape. I can't afford to do that.

So on I go, paying my taxes and bills, with every document in place, having thrown money at Telmicro with nothing to show for it and not able to afford a new TV system.

The Spanish Language classes at the town hall will not occur because the tutors have not been paid for last year, so stop ramming that down our throats Spanish politician telling us of integration into this dump.

I hope that some straying politician or newspaper reporter reads this. May it also serve as a warning to anyone who has allowed the sun to hit the top of their heads and who thinks that Spain is wonderful. Parts of it maybe but Orihuela Costa is a dump. It nowhere compares with where I was originally from and to where I can no longer afford to go.

I see You Tube has many films on it saying the same about Orihuela Costa. I agree with everything on those films.

You do live in a strange place on OC. We live there and have none of your so called problems. Our roads are swept once a week, Green waste once a week or more. There's new football pitches and sports centre and running track just being finished at Punta Prima. There are ample sports facilities at Pilar. There's a Civic centre at Playa Flamenca, there are bowling clubs and golf courses.
It is only on a later post of yours that we find out that you are a Jock!! Now there we find the true cause of your twisted bitterness to OC. You want everything on a plate without contributing like you lot do in the UK. The sooner England gives you lot of wingers the push the better off their economy will be.
In the mean time I suggest you pack up and leave and go back to Scotland.

[KC1]

More Spanish viewpoints:

YouTube - BOICOTEA casas nuevas en Orihuela Costa

[KC1]

The Spanish viewpoint:

YouTube - orihuela costa

[koali]

Ive viewed the pictures and all i can see is a broken bin
and a bits of palm branches on the side of the street, big deal.
You,re typical of a jock, always whinging.
How long before its all the Englishes fault ?

Typical comment from an English pig - half of them are queer and half of them are married to one.

En termen ez pessiez..........

[KC1]

Ive viewed the pictures and all i can see is a broken bin
and a bits of palm branches on the side of the street, big deal.
You,re typical of a jock, always whinging.
How long before its all the Englishes fault ?

Your words English.

[KC1]

Even the Spanish reckon its a shit hole:

YouTube - orihuela costa

[sooty1]

Ive viewed the pictures and all i can see is a broken bin
and a bits of palm branches on the side of the street, big deal.
You,re typical of a jock, always whinging.
How long before its all the Englishes fault ?

[sueh21]

Unfortunately, I understand that......................but we are in Spain, and they do things there way. There is not a lot we can do about it. They take their time with everything, as you must know.

[KC1]

Because I can't afford to take such a loss on my property to bail out !

[sueh21]

If you really don`t like it here..............why are you still here then ?

[KC1]

Rolling, sweeping scenery depicting the magnificent Orihuela Costa here:

YouTube - Boycott new houses in Orihuela Costa

[sugar]

oc

Well now you're just being stupid !

[KC1]

Orihuela Costa - what chance does Scotland's Lochs, Highlands and West Coast Islands, Wales' Snowdonia, England's Lake District, Cornwall's beaches and coasts stand against the true beauty that is Orihuela Costa ?

Latest photographs of the grandeur we live in available here:

Photo Sharing by MyPhotoAlbum.com :: MyPhotoAlbum :: Orihuela Costa, Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain

[KC1]

For garden refuse that has supposedly been there for several weeks, it is remarkably green ???

That's because more green gets added on top of the rotting mess underneath.

[dorsetlad]

For garden refuse that has supposedly been there for several weeks, it is remarkably green ???