"Ex-Pats?...Are the Guys in their own little Colony in Spain affecting the everyday life of the average Spaniard in any shape or form? .Surely the answer is No. How many of them want Spanish Social Housing and are dependent on their Host Nation? .Few,I would suggest. " Oooh deary me no. They've had a horrendous impact on many communities in Spain, and ageing immigrants in general (not just the brits this time) have also been a major contributory factor to one of Europe's best health services groaning and creaking hugely under the strain. So your Brit contributes nothing to the new nation's coffers then at an age when they're pretty much guaranteed to need expensive medical care they....jump to the front of the queue. Meanwhile they'll claim they were forced out of their country because of all the "immigrants with their strange foods and clothes and wailing minarets, who can't be bothered to learn the language or integrate..blah .. blah" whilst simultaneously shouting rudely at the locals in English, calling them all Pedro, eating bangers and beans, drinking heavily, upsetting the locals, only ever going out in their own places singing karaoke and playing bingo...etc ... etc ... Of course the genuine Brits who left for a new and better life and DID integrate into the communities are the ones who really suffered as they were once part of the communities they joined, now find themselves shunned as part of this ugly invasion. Tengo mucho familia por alla y I'm just saying... And Spain is number one ex-pat destination of recent times, though obviously there are greater numbers in the Commonwealth thanks to historical emigration to Canada, Australia and New Zealand