Walking in the streets of Alicante you will hear people talking in Romanian, German, English, French on some rare occasion you will hear Spanish. Alicante has 318,000 inhabitants (31,000 foreigners mainly from United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe). You can live there without speaking any Spanish as most people in shops, restaurants; banks speak some English. In fact, learning English seem to be the priority of many Spaniard there as it offer more employment opportunity.
The staff of a bank may talk up to 4 languages. Tourism and services are the main economic activities.

The pedestrian will enjoy a walk passing around this entire seafront area, via the Paseo de Gómiz, Paseo de Conde de Vallelano and Paseo del Almirante Julio Guillén Tato. Parallel to these streets are other areas of interest, including the famous Explanada de España. This is a promenade lined with leafy palm trees, nearly half a kilometre in length, and paved with an enormous tri-coloured marble mosaic formed of 6,600,000 pieces. Everyone pass there citizens and tourists this is a vital place of the city . The Explanada is overlooked by historic houses, such as for example, the Casa Carbonell next to the Puerta del Mar. Nearby there is also the castle of Santa Barbara and the Postiguet’s beach. You will never get bored of this area of the city
Occasionally you will see big ferries going to north Africa.

Due to its size Alicante has all facilities of a modern city 4 large commercial centers
with cinemas and load of shops where you can buy virtually everything from Versace clothes to porcelain cups.

In the north of the city are San Juan and El Campello, this where property buyers are
interested to settle , the area is quieter than the center of Alicante except may be during the summer season. San Juan has a 7 Km blue flag white sandy beach during the winter in January the temperature is often around 18 to 22 degree having a walk on this beach free of tourist is a real pleasure. San Juan and El Campello are well served by tramway and bus. Take 10 minutes of bus from San Juan to be in the center of Alicante. Ticket price is less than 1 euro (0,85 euro - 2003 price) Additionally, there are enough shops that you will not need to go in Alicante often. In june, you have a big fiesta in the Hogueras de San Juan celebrating the arrival of summer with open-air dances, which culminated with the lighting of bonfires and were joined with the fiestas of St. John.

The real estate market is very dynamic in both San Juan and El campello with more new development taking place in San Juan than in El Campello, El campello tend to be very expensive and price rise are excepted in the future. A resale villa with 3 bedrooms starts at 300,000 euro. Nonetheless, if you have the fund to live in one of those high quality places go for it.