Currency conversion fees – Possible solution?
If you have been reading this blog, you know that for six years I have been transferring money to myself from my US bank to my Spanish bank via two Paypal accounts. For those of you who don't know, I…
Category: Money
Managing money in Spain.
Salaries in Spain
Salaries in Spain and How People Live on Them I've talked about this topic before more or less in my Cost of Living in Barcelona post, but in this post I've interviewed another American expat for a little different perspective…
The cost of living in Barcelona question – answered!
About once a month in the winter and once a week during the 3 other seasons, I receive a question regarding the cost of living in Barcelona, usually in the form of: "What do you think is the minimum someone needs…
How not to budget your move to Spain
Whether you are in Spain for a finite amount of time and are interested in making a permanent move, have made the actual move and are living here, or have no plans to either stay or leave but week after…
Salaries in Spain and the standard of living
Note: This was originally the last part of the post: Working in Spain but has been expanded and thus warranted (in my opinion) its own, albeit short-ish, post. You know that moving here requires a change in your cultural expectations, some of which…