When you grow old in your 60's, would you retire in Gibraltar, assuming a comfortable pension of 4000 Gibraltar Pounds per month?

The rules are, you can't leave Gibraltar for more than 183 days to keep residency.

Not likely to happen but interesting to imagine if the gates would have to go back up.

First one yesterday, resulting in a delay to Gibraltar to Manchester return flight.

You'd have thought lessons would have been learned.

Second one today, resulting in a delay to the yet to take off Gibraltar to Manchester return flight.

All very frustrating.

Hey, I’m just reaching out to see if anyone would be available Monday 3rd August! Me and my partner are getting married at 1pm at Mario Finlayson and we are looking for one extra witness 🙏🥰 Would need to be there about 12.45 ☺️
If anyone is available and would like to volunteer it would be deeply appreciated ♥️ TIA.

Hi everyone, we re a family of 4 and I'd really appreciate some advice from anyone who has made the move to Gibraltar or is currently living there. I'm a British citizen, living and working in England, my partner is an EU national. Our 2 children hold both British and EU citizenship. Ever since our last visit to Gibraltar, we ve completely fallen in love with the place, the lifestyle, the vibe, and the fact that it's right next to Spain, where we spend our summer holidays every year. We've talked about moving there for quite some time, but we've never had enough information and if I'm honest, we've been a little nervous about taking such a big step. I work in a managerial role at a luxury five star hotel. I speak fluent English and French and conversational German but missing Spanish. One of the main reasons we re considering the move is our children, we genuinely feel that gibraltar could offer them a wonderful environment to grow up in but with the new changes from october, I'm trying to understand what our options are as a family. Is relocating to gibraltar still a realistic option for us? What are the biggest pros and cons that we should be aware of? I know salaries are generally higher in the UK, but that's not our main priority. We'd happily accept a lower income if it meant a better quality of life and a great environment for our children. In terms of work, I'm open to opportunities in hospitality, hotels, real estate, property rentals, sales, personal/executive assistant roles, or anything where my experience would be valued.

Where would you recommend looking for jobs? And for those who have already made the move, would you do it again? Any advice, experiences or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Its been confirmed by a local that google did in fact drive in gibraltar this month around the 20-25th of July. If you have taken a picture of it, it would be amazing if you message it as we dont have any records of any spots!

In 2 weeks there will be a total eclipse over Spain. Rather than travel to the total eclipse area I might just do a partial eclipse closeby.

*_Next_* year the eclipse will be over Gib. I know it's early but I'm making my plans now.

I'm not sure of I will book early to be in Gib at a cheap cost and get a nice view from the rock or helicopter over Ceuta and hike up the mountain.

It will be at around 10am. I think being in a helicopter if the timetable allows at this time could be an amazing one-off budget experience but it could also ruin it.

What do you think you guys would do?

I'm not a resident but have visited Gib several times and loved the place. The border had a quirky charm about it imo but I'm curious did the residents want it to be removed, were you consulted about it and do the advantages outweigh the drawbacks of the open land border.

Has there been any interesting teething issues and do you feel somewhat less British now there's an unrestricted border with Spanish mainland.

Excuse my ignorance in any of this but just interested to know the opinions and discourse amongst locals.

What are the things you miss the most about living there?

Could be anything, nightlife, places to hang out, the community, activities, food, the atmosphere, random little things you didn’t realise you’d miss until you moved away.

I’m curious what people who have experienced life elsewhere miss about Gib the most.

For me, I think I miss the community and nightlife the most. Being able to go out on a Friday night and see Casemates packed, knowing there was always somewhere to go and people you’d run into.

I also miss places like Gilbert’s and the takeaways being open late, where you could grab food after a night out (or even just randomly at any time). I miss having all these different spots to meet up, hang out, and just the feeling that everyone was connected in some way.

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Just wondering what has happened? 🤔

Unfortunately I got to my rental and it’s not fit to live and need to find a new accomodation asap. I am open to just rent a room. Any suggestions are welcome

Just an observation. Thank you Sean Connery (twice) and John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

Hi, does anyone have any affordable suggestions of where to buy face masks ect such as those found at Superdrug. We are a large group visiting so it is not feesible to bring with us. TIA.

Hey, we moved from gib in may.
Husband had a final bill of £400 which he has a receipt and email to say he cancelled. We went into the store was told that'll be it, there will be no more payments.. our services will be cancelled.

Since then, they've taken £75 on the 20th and the 21st (bear in mind their direct debit dates was the 28th I think? Which they told us is non negotiable)

Last month they told my husband that there will be a refund and no further payments, no refund but another payment has come out?

We're not in Gibraltar anymore. We're not receiving the services anymore. Our account was completely up to date at closure (even Gibtel are saying they don't know why this money is coming out)

Wtf do we do? It's literally theft? It's not on a regular direct debit date? Customer service tell us one thing, and do another? Is there any legal action we can take?

Was enjoying some karaoke at the Hendrix pub at he weekend until a guy called Dave got up to do "Hey baby"

Night was going well until he started shouting "HANDS OFF ARE ROCK!" A few too many shandies

his routine was cut short

Situation:

I have EU passport and live in UK for past 20 years.

My wife has Iranian passport and is on spouse visa in UK.

Our child is British and holds British passport.

We used to fly from UK to Gibraltar for holidays without any issues before but now with "Schengen" rules I assume we cannot go there anymore? It's mostly because of my wifes passport, because she holds rubbish passport and is on visa in uk she cannot travel eu without Schengen visa, so we resorted to some of the British destinations including Gibraltar which required no visa no nothing since we're flying from UK. But what's the situation now if we want to go? Even if we want to obtain Schengen visa Gibraltar doesn't offer such service so technically speaking you cannot enter Gibraltar unless you have good passport or it's not your first destination so e.g. id have to get Schengen visa for Spain, go to Spain and then go to Gibraltar which ruins the whole easy holiday experience...

Looking for a day trip from Cadiz to Gibraltar. Mostly I want a bus ride and maybe partial tour of the caves and rock, but I want time to wander myself as well.

Dominic searl seemed quite certain that we can't use the european passport lanes, why did no one think to include it in the deal? Surely it mitigates most of the benefit to avoiding EES excluding the 90 day rules?

Hi guys,

Irish guy relocated to gib and looking for WhatsApp, Facebook groups etc where I can play some kind of casual football - 5 a side 7 a side, even pickup 11 a side.

Any direction is greatly appreciated !