Yes Pondgirl, you are right about the drug testing.
Most of the ex-pats who come here, especially with young children think that it is a few years behind the UK in these problems, but unfortunately not so.

You realise quite quickly that drugs are probably more available here than in the UK.

Maybe it is because the communities are smaller and more concentrated, but i honestly wouldn't know who and where to ask in Cheshire, if i needed a "smoke" or "tabs" or even "charlie", but everybody here seems to know of a supplier for everything.

Can be worrying if you have teenagers or young children, and even more so, especially if your kids can speak Catalan or Spanish, and you are a little "behind the door with the lingo"