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Your new life in Spain
Answer a few questions and see which visa you qualify for, what it takes, and which city fits the way you want to live.
Why Spain
The life you are actually moving for
Nobody moves country for a visa. This is what sits on the other side of the paperwork.
Healthcare that has you covered
Spain's public healthcare system gives eligible residents access to care without paying at the point of service. Many newcomers also choose private insurance for quicker specialist appointments and added flexibility, especially during their first year.
Your money goes further
A one bedroom in central Valencia asks about 1,300 euros a month, and a comfortable month for one person runs near 3,000. A three course menú del día is still about 14. These are September 2026 market rates, not holiday prices.
Among the sunniest in Europe
AEMET puts the Costa del Sol near 2,900 hours and Valencia close behind. While everyone at home is scraping the windscreen, February looks like a walk on the beach.
Culture you can taste
The 2026 Michelin guide for Spain and Andorra stars 307 kitchens, sixteen of them with three. Underneath sits the tapas bar on your corner, which you will end up using far more.
Actually live your life
Longer lunches, later dinners, and a working day shaped to fit them. Spain runs on a different clock, and adjusting to it is the change people say they notice most.
Gateway to the continent
A weekend in Lisbon, a birthday in Paris, August in the Greek islands. From Spain the rest of Europe is a short cheap hop rather than a holiday you save up for.
We spent three weekends reading forum threads and government PDFs that contradicted each other. Ten minutes here told us which visa we qualified for and what we were still short of.
From the journal
Visas, cities, schools and what a month costs, from a family who did it.
Your first thirty days, in the order we would do them again
The arrival month is mostly appointments. Here is the sequence that stops you waiting on something you could have started…
Choosing a city when you have never lived in any of them
Weather and rent are the easy filters. The ones that decided it for us were language, airport and whether we…
Opening a bank account, and getting paid from abroad
A Spanish account is the key that unlocks the rest of the admin, and getting money into it is its…