it's been a soggy few days here on the
Costa del Sol British weather almost to
mark Britain's imminent exit from the EU
but you do sense among some Brits here a
relief that the way things have turned
out the withdrawal agreement signed
certain rights guaranteed for life but
to qualify you've got to be legally
resident in a host new country before
the end of the transition period the end
of the year according to Boris Johnson
and there's thought to be many thousands
of Brits living under the radar here in
Spain as well as part-timers who come
and go so there's a real rush to get
registered before the deadline
particularly among pensioners quinta to
guarantee their free health care but you
also hear concerns that the withdrawal
agreement only goes so far if you're
legally resident in Spain you can work
here but not necessarily across other
new countries because freedom of
movement ends when the transition period
ends you speak to some Brits here
they're not bothered by any of that they
can't wait for brexit for others they'll
tell you that come the end of the month
they'll be shedding a tear
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the weather maybe and typically iffy and
brexit days away but the British love
affair with Spain appears and gift
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there'll be painful choices I hope we'll
have to relinquish my British
citizenship enthusiasm it's the best
thing that ever happens in Britain since
Margaret Thatcher yet to presume to the
Falklands and regret I'm not ready to
let go this as Britain leaves the EU
there are Brits abroad who call it home
and those who'd like to join them
wondering what next market day when
Girona on the Costa del Sol a popular
spot for British immigrants of whom
there are more in Spain than any EU
country the brexit trade off that was
finally struck means certain rights to
live work and travel in the EU are
guaranteed but I offer though is only
good for a limited time only until the
end of the transition period so there's
a real incentive for people if they're
coming to get out here quickly so until
recently in Derry you were living with
an egg before Liverpool just by a.m.
Liverpool Airport
okay how is this compare well the view
it's a lot different as you can see
we've got our own pathway to our pier
which you don't get an egg but I'm gonna
outdoor swimming pool like this no no
some reason no dairy and his family have
hurried a move to Estepona in southern
Spain as you moved here to three years
quicker yeah because of British because
of blacks it yeah he was eager to get
the same rights as Brits already here
that means applying for residency in
Spain during the transition period which
Boris Johnson says won't be extended
beyond the end of the year this is part
of a news
paradise in Marbella and this is their
hub dairies family are hoping to set up
a business here training beauticians to
carry out advanced procedures he voted
for Britain to leave the EU but he's
chosen to remain within it
I've been told via countries like Spain
so I think it's Spain's culture not the
EU culture but I think it will benefit
me and my family be many once Britain
Southey you if anyone wants to do what
I'm gonna do it's gonna be on the hard
and it costs a lot more so I'll probably
pop people off a lot more - do you think
that's like a price worth paying for
brexit if it's gonna make Britain a
better country the people move they want
to live there then yes definitely
high in the Andalusia in hills it's no
longer just the lifestyle or the
landscape drawing Brits to Spain for
British pensioners uncertainty around
future access to free health care has
meant a rush for Spanish residency
before the transition period deadline
Carol and her husband Mike have been
spending part of the year here since she
was recovering from chemotherapy a
decade ago but Carol's cancer has just
relapsed just when you are getting ready
to move out here full-time your
diagnosis yes keeping you back in the UK
it's keeping us back in the UK and it
means that we just don't know when we
can come back here I am going to spend
half my life and tour by hospital I
think it's gonna be very very difficult
brexit has brought a cutoff date 11
months left to apply for the current
package of rights including pensioners
health care Carol and Mike fear they'll
miss out the health care issues is a big
one because there's no way that I'm
accountant is bringing us here and
risking kind of having some sort of a
setback waking up on the day the
referendum was like being told I've got
a cancer all over again
as it's gone on it's got worse each time
it's come through for me it's like the
day my dad died it's something inside me
it's been taken away that I don't want
taken away which TV show has been hosted
by Boris Johnson William Hague quiz
night in this British bar they discover
we've added a special round ok brexit
things won't change I think it's the
best thing we've ever done
I know I'm already excited is this
happening on on the 31st of January I
don't need to wait till then I'm excited
now to see that we get the deal through
in 12 words because I believe Boris will
do it when the transition period ends
will UK citizens officially resident in
Spain automatically be able to work in
another EU country
also pondering the end of freedom of
movement for British workers 21 year old
Leon I want to work yes he's decided to
take Spanish citizenship which under
Spain's strict laws may mean giving up
his UK passport it's a choice between
the UK or the whole of Europe I can't
cut myself off from every other country
in Europe and all the possibilities that
may lie there Leon has a new baby
brother the whole family may soon leave
Britain behind is Luc gonna have more or
less freedom I think you can have a lot
less Rita it does make me sad that young
people who had no say they're going to
be the ones that are gonna have to live
with it and they can't really have no
say in it cuatro Cinco seis siete ocho
for the British in Europe this is a
treasured way of life as the post brexit
future is set to take shape