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The first months felt like vacation spending wearing normal clothes. Every cafe, museum, train trip, and tapas dinner felt justified because we had moved abroad. Then we checked the card statements. We made a local-life budget: weekday meals at home, one paid family outing per weekend, fewer taxis, and no buying every imported comfort item. Madrid can be reasonable, but not if you treat it like a permanent honeymoon.

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