Spanish AfterLife exists because I made the move myself — from Mexico to Spain, through the tourist-visa years and the Digital Nomad Visa to residency — before I ever offered to guide anyone else through theirs. This is that story, and why it became a business.
My name is LJ Koch. I live on the Valencia coast, in Oliva Nova — and I got here the long way.
I left [HOME COUNTRY] for Mexico in 2017, and lived there until Spain pulled me across the Atlantic. [ONE LINE ON WHY MEXICO, AND WHAT EVENTUALLY POINTED YOU TOWARD SPAIN — this is the emotional spine of the page; keep it honest and specific.]
[ONE OR TWO SENTENCES ON WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO — for example the kind of remote work the Digital Nomad Visa is built around, and what you were really looking for in a place to live rather than visit.]
I didn't manage this from a spreadsheet abroad. I lived each stage of it — the limbo, the paperwork, the residency — and learned exactly where the process bends, stalls, or gets lost in translation.
[A line on the years in Mexico and what eventually made you start looking at Spain.]
Living in and out of Spain from 2023 on a tourist visa — getting to know the coast in the off-season, not just on holiday, before committing to anything.
A seasonal apartment on the Valencia coast — close enough to the everyday reality of the place to know it honestly.
The route I took onto Spanish residency. [A line on what surprised you, how long it took, or the document that nearly tripped you up.]
The foreigner's number and the stack of documents that precedes everything in Spain. [Optional: the small friction nobody warns you about.]
Granted — and the difference it makes to live here rather than visit. The property chapter comes next; I will write that one honestly too, when it is real.
[HOW SPANISH AFTERLIFE STARTED — e.g. friends and acquaintances back home kept asking how you did it, and you realised the value wasn't the information, which is everywhere, but having someone who had actually walked the path hold their hand through it.]
So I built the thing I wish I'd had: one relationship that handles the whole move. I've lived the immigration side of this myself; the legal, tax, and property work is run with vetted partner firms who do it every day — but you deal with me and my team throughout. The bureaucracy isn't theoretical to us.
[OPTIONAL: a line on your family, what your life here looks like now, or what you wish someone had told you. One genuine human detail does more than a page of credentials.]
A free 45-minute call. Whatever stage you're at, you'll get honest answers from someone who has made the move and lives on the Valencia coast now.