Talk:Spain/@comment-94.197.121.158-20180310190917/@comment-24682153-20180311081119

Hola.

It depends what you exactly mean by "emigrate". Do you just want to stay for the winter as an EU citizen or do you want to obtain a Spanish residency and NIE (Foreign ID number) with a special foreigner ID document. For details see here: https://www.justlanded.com/english/Spain/Spain-Guide/Visas-Permits/Residency-and-NIE. To get an official "residencia" as a foreigner in Spain has certain benefits. You can close contracts, have a local bank account, better chances on the job market and have an official Spanish home address.

As an official foreign resident you can close a postpaid contract with a Spanish provider, that can give you even better deals than Three UK. Without this residency you are limited to prepaid (or Pay-as-you-go as they say in the UK). Here you will pay probably more or less the same with cheap MVNOs like Simyo than in the UK. I'd guess around €30 which is not so different to the GBP25 Three charges in the UK. So either way: don't worry, your bill will not change so much.