There are many Spaniards who, seeing a modest pension, decide to travel to countries with a cheaper cost of life, such as Thailand, to live their retirement with many more comforts. However, paradogically, it is something that foreigners also do with Spain. That is, there are people from other countries who decide to retire in Spain because their pension in our country gives them to have a remarkably better life.
This is the case of Cristoph Jenny, a Swiss retiree who, always, was clear that he was going to spend his labor retirement in Spain. And so it has been. “In the 90s, when I worked in Madrid for 4 years, I always said that I wanted to live in Spain,” he says, ensuring that they had friends living in Seville and Frigiliana and was “love at first sight.”
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It was this last destination, the precious white town of Malaga, who chose with his wife to spend his retirement. “It’s what we have done and is a total success.” Thus, he does not regret at all, being able to have a life that would be directly impossible in Switzerland, as he told the program ‘And now Sonsoles’.
“With my retirement of 1,400 euros and my wife’s would be impossible to live in Switzerland”
According to Cristoph, in the aforementioned program, although both he and his wife are pensioners, they did not have enough resources to live as retirees in Switzerland: “With my retirement of 1,400 euros and my wife’s would be impossible to live in Switzerland,” adding between the two 2,800 euros.
On the reasons, he explained that only for medical insurance, they would have to pay about 1,500 euros per month, to which the rent would have to be added, that “not to mention” the food … crossing it with “impossible.” Therefore, he confesses that they had everything thought for a long time. “With what we are going to charge, we will live well in Spain,” they said.
Following the comparisons, renting a house in Switzerland can mean 3,500 euros per month, as is the case of his daughter. In fact, he affirms that, in regards to the cost of life of both countries, “everything must be multiplied by 4, with regard to Spain to Switzerland.” Another example is the daily menus, ensuring this Swiss retiree that start from 20 euros. “And eat 50/60 euros per person per person and without drinking wine,” noting that a glass of wine is usually, more or less, among the “6 or 7 euros.”