Hi

This is my first post and I was hoping to get some guidance please. I am in the process of negotiating a job with a UK company based in Portugal. It has always been our dream to live there, so we are all pretty excited!

However, whilst I know that the cost of living is lower than in the UK, I am still not sure what level of income we would need to be comfortable. If I tell you a little about us, could anyone hazard a rough guess what we might need to ask for as a salary? The clues are:

- we won't need to pay rent or mortgage
- we have two children (6 and 7) who would, ideally, go to an International school
- we will need to run two cars
- we like eating out, maybe once or twice a week
- we have two small dogs
- we will need to pay service costs on a 3/4 bedroom house (electricity, water, etc)
- we will need broadband access at home

I realise that this is all a bit vague but if anyone could give me a ballpark target, that would really help us!!

Thanks and kind regards

Dave