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Originally Posted by markwill
Hola,
here some of the requested comparisons:
- Parking 100-200 Euros monthly (highly recommended to rent a house/apartment inkl. parking)
- Food is defintely more expensive. 400-500 Euros/month for a family of four. Consumer prices always include VAT.
- Municipal taxes are considerably lower
- school taxes are unknown
- no charges on drivers licenses
- car insurances and taxes about equal]
- gasoline 20% more expensive (try to get a diesel)
Saludos
Bill
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Thanks for the details. Actually the food looks to be only marginally more expensive - my price was on a "per week" basis. My feeling is that, as long as I can flip into the European tax system asap, then I'm not really going to see much of a financial difference.
A bit more info:
Comparing newspapers, the Spanish ones contain much more information and commentary (politics and sport) than the Montreal ones (which I always feel are full of empty space and badly thought-out adverts). Conversely the national tv in Canada seems to be very good (no idea how the Madrid tv is). Cars appear to cost more in Spain, but that doesn't take into account the extra taxes and charges over here, which boost the price by nearly 20% for a new car. Clothes cost less in Spain.