My husband has been asked to take a promotion that would transfer him to the Barcelona office (2 year contract). I will have to quite my job here in the US, sell our cars and we will have to rent our home. He has worked there before for a five week stint in 2009 and 2008…we have both done extensive travel for our jobs, but living there is going to be completely new. What are the need to knows?
He is the first to be transferred to this office from the US with a spouse…so we don’t have really anything to go on as far as spousal visas, etc.
His company is offering quite a bit of assistance for the move including; shipping personal items, our dog, furnishings (if we choose a unfurnished apt), language lesson, rental assistance, temporary housing for 1 month, 2 business class tickets a year back to US, private health insurance, management company assistance to maintain/rent out our US home, cultural training, storage for our goods in US, professional tax prep, visa/work permit prep, 1 months salary (for us to buy things there), gross up on taxes…I think that is it. Note: They are NOT paying for our housing and we DON’T have any children.
We have also been informed of the CRAZY taxes rates in Spain and taxes for pension/social services. We are estimating after taxes, social services/pension tax we will take home 3800 euro per month…I beleive this is enough to live on?
