Hey Adriana, you lucky,lucky gal. I have lived in Madrid for 5 years now (moved here from NYC, U.S.A.) and I have never looked back. It was by far the best decision of my life. Now settled in here, I am loving this place more every day.

As you may understand, food is a huge topic, too big to go into here.

Spain is much cheaper than the U.S. but it all depends on the salary you are earning here. If you are going to make a good U.S. salary and live here in Madrid, you will be rich! So, it is all relative.

The WWW has loads of info on living in Spain, do some searches and you will see what I mean.

You are about to live the dream of many an American so count your lucky stars and have an amazing time as I'm sure you will

Saludos,
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