How the cost of living in Spain compares to the US — housing, food, utilities, healthcare and day-to-day expenses for expats on the Costa Blanca.
Check these pages out, too. Cost of Living in Spain for Expats. Food And Shopping In Spain For Expats
It's tempting. You convert a restaurant bill or a rent payment back to dollars, do the math in your head, and blurt out how cheap everything is compared to home. In most social settings in the US, that's harmless small talk. In Spain, it can land very differently. It's worth understanding why before you say it to the wrong person. Don't be the ugly American in Spain.
We just did our quarterly refresh of the numbers on our Cost of Living in Spain page. No surprises that the results haven’t changed: the cost of living in Spain vs USA is significantly cheaper across nearly every category we track and…
We know our cost of living in Spain will be less. During our house hunting visit to Spain last week, we stopped in to a couple of the largest grocery stores in the northern Costa Blanca, Mas y Mas and Mercadona.
Prices for filling up your vehicle are more expensive in Spain and the EU that in the US. When we visited the first week of February this year, in the Jávea area the price for vehicle fuel was $6.00 gal (€1.35l) for gasoline and $5.58 for diesel (€1.25l)