Cost of Living in Valencia

Valencia is a wonderful place, but it’s gotten a lot more expensive in the past few years. Rent has tripled, groceries and restaurants are more costly and taxis seem to be twice as much. If you move there on a digital nomad visa, you have to pay high social security and high taxes.

We moved from Texas to Valencia in Spain and we could not be happier !

Friendly people, most things twice as cheap and great weather !

A 3 Three-course meal for two in a restaurant can easily be found for around 35 euros, including drinks.

In europe there's no tipping or added taxes in restaurants, bars. The price you see is what you pay.

I joined a very modern gym in Valencia (just opened) for only 20 euros a month including drinks.

Spain is expensive to live in, if you work in There. If you are going on holidays is obviously cheap with your GBP exchanged and your earnings from abroad. Spain is expensive for Spanish, young people cannot afford to buy even with a good job because the salaries are very low. WAKE UP

These comments here should be taken with a grain of salt.

Valencia has a great climate, friendly population and prices are not as dramatic as portrayed here in the comments.

Valencia is a great city to spend a few months or a year maximum if you have a well paying job somewhere else. If you dig down in the city culture and real life outside of the expat bubble you will see Valencia and generally speaking Spain for what it is and let me tell you that you will not like it. It is all good and dandy if your only problem is where to go to eat or what to do during the day but if you are serious about this place and you need to go through the bureaucracy - the tax system - flat renovation with the great majority of the people to be totally untrustworthy or borderline scammers. It is even worse if you try to open a business and you are trying to find some trustworthy employees and you will soon realize that they are rarer than diamonds. Lets not even start with the tax systems and their insane taxes.

I live in the USA so living in Spain is a real bargain!!

Valencia cheap as chips, nice people restaurants reasonable get the re if you can weather fantasic and you are safe…..

Valencia españa, is really expensive since September 2021... Rent is very expensive, transportation gym too is more expensive than Paris or Germany ...except if you are student sharing apartments cheap and eat industrial chicken.. Valencia is nice middle city but expensive and complicated if you have children..

The figure on utilities is now way off. As of January 2022 I'm paying €144 a month for electricity alone, and that's without air conditioning or central heating. Estimate now €200 monthly just for electricity and water.