It was Lancashire!

Hi it would for me be liveable but I suppose you may get a more accurate answer if you outline the type of lifestyle you would like. I would ignor3 comments re statics your choice and as Fred says Horses for Courses. You say you will buy the static so no rent but as has been said factor in health costs if not state pension age also site fees which I believe vary quite a bit and can certainly higher than what I pay for IBI etc. Have you considered maybe a longish rental in the area you fancy to help assess how you would manage within your lifestyle?

Well I found it funny

Thanks Keith- maybe it's cos we were both born in same year

Age is humorous in itself ;-)

1800 euros a month would be considered a fortune to almost anyone i know. the average wage is 800-1000 a month.

you could live like kings on that money.

Very true.

Yet I know a few who have much more than that and struggle to make ends meet. Of course, it's a lifestyle choice. You can choose to live well on little, or be incessantly unhappy for a lot more... Damn, it's so expensive here... In Britain in the sun... Whilst others look on from a distance, with a smile...

Again, I repeat. 800-1000 euros per month is not the average wage in Spain

The average wage is around 2,100 euros per month

If a family earns just 1,000 euros per month then they are very poor indeed, among the bottom 25% of the country

Hi all,

Thanks for all the replies and comments.
I will explain my question . As mentioned, we will be early retirees. I have around 9 years till state pension. Our income , from a fire service pension and an NHS pension gives us around the 1800 euros per month figure. We will be paying around 300 euros per month ground rent. we also have to add in insurances etc. Whilst I like a beer or two of an evening, we are not really into eating out /golf etc. The biggest bill that I can see to start with is the first years medical which we will take from our savings so really doesn`t impact on the monthly figure. We run a diesel car (new). Does this make it a bit clearer....hope so.

Al

well i dont know where your figures come from, but i dont earn anything like 2100 a month, thats 525 a week ... i wish. even our manager doesnt earn that.


im talking individually .. not per household?


i dont know anyone (normal / non specialised) at the airport that earns more than 1400 a month. im talking parking / car hire / cleaners / maintainance men etc etc.

If you know where i can get 500 a week, please let me know

Much as I loved Spain and much as I adapted to the cuisine (as far as it's possible for a vegetarian to do so) I loved being able to buy HP sauce for the occasional eggy bread breakfast.

As a maths teacher I could point out that the 'average' salary depends on whether you're talking mean, median or mode.

Instead I'll just post this link which claims the average salary in spain in 2014 was 1.634€ and express my surprise that the recovery has added around another 500€ to that this year.

Nothing wrong with that. I'm not a fan, but if you like it, have it.

I do find it amusing that so many around here spend a fortune on fighting Spain's "third world" inaccessibility to "British stuff". One couple we know refuses to shop at mercadona or eroski, because they can't stand the "poor quality of Spanish goods", preferring of course, to pay a hefty premium to only buy their goods from the British import shop, and amusingly, order household appliances from the UK (usually via Amazon, because they dont speak a word of Spanish). Of course, you can buy any of that stuff here, for a lot less money, but OK, I guess I can accept the comfort level - and the premium that goes with it.

These of course, are the very same ilk that refuse to live in "isolation" in some "third world" village full of "foreigners", paying a fortune for a tiny 2 bed flat in a distinctly British expat community with noisy neighbours on both sides, yet whinge endlessly about how expensive it is here.

Let's face it, €1800 is not a lot for two people in a 1st World country, but salaries in Spain are more like 2nd World and people manage. Overall Spain is not a cheap place to live and if you could manage in the UK, you will manage in Spain.

Was that the mean, the median, or the mode?