not how it says it will be in all those books and magazines

We read lots of books and magazines for several years before we decided to move and weighed up all the pitfalls - the dodgy estate agents odd and slow banking practices, the ineffective mail service, poor electric supply, unclean tap water, polluted seas, slow phone company, lack of internet in rural areas but despite buying in a very very rural area our estate agents were trustworthy and are now good friends, the banks is great - better than our UK one, the mail arrives from the UK in two days, the electric is fine, Telefonica were friendly and the new phone line and ADSL were installed in 5 days and work well, we have friends who speak highly of emergency services and of medical services our well pumps beautiful drinking water uncontaminated with flouride woohoo we are free of unsolicited mass medication...the sea is warm and clean ...all seems fine so far.. we must have read the wrong books.