We are planning to visit Funchal in August. We want to stay near downtown. Is there a neighborhood you recommend? Thanks

Doug & Monique, very helpful video. Thank you for explanations in each category helps in planning. Thank you!

Greetings from Australia 🙂 I just cant believe how cheap utilities and rent in where you live compared to Australia. Here everything is at least 4 times more expensive compared to Portugal and since gas (petrol) and groceries gone up most things are even more expensive in Australia. eg a lettuce sold for just $3 now is $12, one litre petrol was $1.40 and now almost $2.35 for same and list goes on and on. The cost of living in Australia is well and truly more than Scandinavia, Hong Kong, Japan and many other countries. From 1 July 2022 electricity price will go up by at least 18% but inflation is about 5% and a few months ago inflation was between 2 to 3%.

This was super informative and thanks for giving us (future expats) an idea of the average cost of living. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Keep up the great content!

Guys thanks for sharing. As always very informative!

Seems like a very reasonable cost of living. Thanks for sharing it was very interesting and informative.

Again, awesome information from the two of you!
Doce Vila is very nice. Would you consider that home with it's utility upgrades an average or median in Medeira? Or more towards the outer part of the bell curve of home offerings?

G’day Doug and Monique

Always look forward to your videos each week, I love the graphics and it was great to see the break down over the last 6 months. In Las Vegas now we are spending between $4600 and $5000 monthly and now since inflation is running around 8.6% a middle range for fish and chips at the Pub and a couple of beers is $100.00. Most mid range meals for two is $60-$75,
Can’t wait to join you on the island of Hawaii/Madeira

Thank you for sharing
Cheers!

Andrew and Monica

👍🇵🇹 los felicitaciones 💐 muy pronto nos veremos en mi amada MADERA 😘🌿🌹

How much does gas cost there right now?

I will be preparing my D7 application over the summer. I'm so excited to be moving to Madeira in January, 2023. I'd love to meet you someday.Congrats on your new home. I think I will try to purchase a flat if I can after 6 months as well. Since I am older, a mortgage might be trickier. I have faith that my realtor will help me figure that out. In the meantime, I plan to start my apartment search at the end of July. Thank you for making these helpful videos. Obrigada!!

Thank you…these videos are so well done and so informative! Do you find the island big enough for you?

Thank you! This is so helpful!

I am a single female retiree in Florida. Portugal was on my radar long before I moved to Florida. I love your detailed videos and I plan to visit the entire country in October. However, family members have sent me news stories about the earthquakes in Portugal. Have you experienced any trimmers? What's the government saying about possibly of the country experiencing a major quake? I hope someone in Portugal can give me some idea of what's really happening regarding the quakes!

I enjoy your channel; if you could put individual USD amounts on each item, it would be helpful. Thanks.

We'll be back in Madeira next week for 2 weeks
You guys are living the dream. Can't wait to swim in the sea and have a poncha or two. Love this channel

Love your videos. Transparent, clear, succinct. Very useful, particularly as I am planning to retire in Portugal too and this certainly helps with future budgeting.

Hello Doug and Monique, I love watching your videos every week with my first cup of coffee. The video quality, value and content of your channel are superb. Thank you for your effort to inform your channel followers. 😄❤️👏👏👏👏. Have a happy retirement.

Great info! I'm looking at moving to Spain, but I think the numbers should be pretty similar.

Thank you for yet another excellent and informative video. The averaging gives a good guideline projection on the expenses. One question related to finance, investment and money management. Since you guys are not in the category of retirees living on Pension / retirement income obviously must be drawing from your savings and investment. If you have any good investment tips on how you generate that sustainable income reasonably safely (we all know that no investment plan is guaranteed other than in Money Market that earns 0.50%) and investment ideas that you practice that would be helpful. Happy Retirement in your new Home.

Hi Doug and Monique. Thanks for another excellent video. We really appreciate you taking the time to share this really useful information with your followers. If you are still looking for suggestions for future videos, would you please consider one that covers your used car buying experience on Madeira, including how you found and chose a dealer, the buying process and, if you don't mind, roughly how much you paid for the car you purchased. Cheers!

We just spent 2 weeks on the beautiful island of Madeira, hoping to find a new place to live, we found it better than Hawaii, cost,and living wise… we stayed in Cao Vincente, Porto Moniz, and Funchal… we Retired to the Woodlands Texas, from Massachusetts, to enjoy no state income tax, and no snow to shovel, ever… however the prices here, for everything are skyrocketing… we really enjoy watching your videos, and pray we too can find our way back to paradise…

Love your videos! I've wanted to up and move to Portugal for years now. But we have 3 children, 11, 13 and 15. I know you both did it after your children were grown. But if you could do it all over again, would you have waited until now or moved when your kids were younger? Thank you.

Doug and Monique. I always look forward to your videos. Very informative. Can you suggest a consultant, realtor you hired to move to Portugal

Great video, thanks for posting, very helpful!