Honest guides to relocating abroad — visas, costs, schools, healthcare and the reality of moving your family to a new country.
Spain vs Mexico for family relocation — compared by a family who has actually done both. Five years of Mexican residency, now moving to Andalusia. The honest side-by-side on cost, climate, food, visas, healthcare and schools.
We’re relocating a family of three from Mexico to Andalusia, Spain in summer 2026. This is our live working checklist — visas, schools, neighbourhoods, the NIE, banking and everything in between.
We built a genuinely good life in Mexico. So why are we leaving? The honest reasons a family of three with Mexican residency is moving to Andalusia, Spain in summer 2026.
We navigated Mexican residency as a British family — temporary residency, renewals, the CURP, banking, schools and everything nobody puts in the official guides. Here’s the complete honest breakdown.
In 2021 we packed up our lives and moved to Mexico as a family of three — no job waiting, no roadmap, no guarantee it would work. Five years on, here’s the honest story of what happened next.