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You would need an EU bio residence card. In other words, you will have to be a resident of an EU country and your spouse must hold an EU country passport.
In your case @P, you will always need a visa as long as you are a SA resident. The only advantage you have as a spouse of an EU member state is that the visa must be for free, you get placed at the top of the queue and the visa must be expedited. Cost of a UK visa is well over £1000 if I remember correctly.

If one day you wish to emigrate to the UK (no Brexit yet) the easiest way would be to move to Ireland for 3 months and apply for an Irish residency card. No visa is required for Ireland. Once you have the RC, you are free to travel throughout the EU as long as your EU spouse is accompanying you or you are traveling to meet her.

My wife has an appointment with a neurologist this Friday for nerve tests of the arms and legs. She seems a bit better as she no longer gets dizzy and has no need to cling onto me or the walls when walking. Perhaps the antibiotics she was given for her stomach cleared her ears out as well.

 

Thanks Griffin. Been spinning for Yellowtail all weekend to no avail. Anyway, a bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office. Boats coming in with loads of Snoek though.
Anyway, to make myself credible, I have to show some figures. Nobody knows me anyway so here goes.
CML - R1 925 350.00. Eish. Too much but it just grew all by itself.
MTA and PNC at almost equal amounts totaling R643 000.00.
OMN has a teeny amount of R54 531.00. Was going to add to it monthly but decided to increase MTA for alpha.

That is roughly R2.6M. This is my starting point for this blog.

ex roughly 14.25 in dec 2013 so around 182 000 Euro's. Guess if you have the same or more you doing well.

BTW wd on 19% growth for the year 

I am considering to relocate as well and I am glad that I stumbled upon that blog.

Thanks Orca for sharing your knowledge and experiences.

The site below show for costs of living in Portugal, Thailand and Belize.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Portugal&displayCurrency=ZAR
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Thailand&displayCurrency=ZAR
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Belize&displayCurrency=ZAR

Portugal comes out tops when it comes to the price of wine by far.

The COL index is somewhat skewed as it shows the prices in Portugal are higher than SA. This is because it points to the Algarve and Lisbon prices. They are tourist destinations and are about 30% higher than non tourist areas such as the north or inland villages.
Mumbeo has these prices and I include the prices that I would pay at a supermarket although the farmers markets are cheaper and every city and village has them.

Coke 0.33 L - R16.82 ........I pay R8.60 for 1 L
Chicken breasts deboned and skinned Kg - R74.56....I pay R49.56. My favorite is the chicken leg quarters at R16.20 per Kg.
Beef Roast Kg - R121.62.....I pay R49.50. This is imported from Chili so I prefer pork roasts at R36.44 per Kg.
Beer Local 500 mL - R13.08....I pay R8.64 for a beer similar to Castle Lager.

So I would not go for those numbers Numbeo shows as they are edited by expats living in the Algarve (little England).
 

As I was saying about Portugal. Since 2001 Portugal has decriminalized marijuana and most other drugs. This led to this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/portugal-drug-decriminalization/

At the time I thought it will help my wife to eat more and feel better about her health but she was too stubborn. No drugs for me she said. I was quite prepared to participate and help in this regard but what the wife says goes.
I have no problem with medicinal marijuana at all.   

Glad she's been diagnosed and it's sounds not too serious.

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Quote from: Mr_Dividend on February 01, 2017, 09:18:23 pm

Glad she's been diagnosed and it's sounds not too serious.

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Excellent