Has anyone else freelanced remotely?

Hello!

Yes, I recently left full-time employment to move to Spain (my other half was offered a job out here). This prompted my move into freelance web work. It's what I have experience in and really enjoy doing. Luckily, the nature of the beast is that I can work remotely, as you say.

All of my clients are based in the UK (mostly London) and it's where I look for all of my work (it's the market I know and all of my contacts and, of course, my family are there).

It's easy to fly back for meeting people face-to-face, although I try to keep this to a minimum for environmental reasons. I'm currently investigating online conferencing for long distance face-to-face meetings!

Of course, I expect to move back at some stage, but in the meantime I'm gaining another language. I hope I can offer it as one of my skills one day.

Where in Spain are you thinking of moving to?

PS - I've just read your profile on your website. Yes, we also moved for quality of life and to escape the London rat race.

We climb a fair bit and it's a real luxury to pop over to a crag in the evening after work! Unthinkable in London. We run and cycle too (to varying degrees) and since we've been here we've also been canyoning. Lots more to try, like sea kayaking and deep water soloing when the sun eventually shows up!

Remote

I work from France, for UK companies