A lot of variables enter into an answer to your question. Things such as what kind of area and home you would be comfortable with as Paraguay is not the "1st world" for sure. But of course if you have the money you can live as luxury encrusted as you want. But anyways, housing will be the most expensive thing you deal with, so you need to look at current prices available and the best place to do that is in the local paper on line ads I think. A good link is http://clasipar.paraguay.com/f . Of course the ads are in Spanish but you can use Google translater if you cannot stumble thru them.

Cars are pretty expensive, figure about three times the purchase cost you would pay for a used car in the US/Can. Add in required insurance of around $150/month and gas about twice the cost of US (not sure of cost in Canada). Check prices out again on line in the newspapers.

Private health care for a family of 3, keeping in mind health insurance is not that prevalent in PY, maybe ball park of around $200 a month for family of 3-4. But care is pretty spotty and an interesting thing about health insurance here is that the insurance companies can sometiime decide not to cover you if they feel it's too expensive, their own policy statements be damned. Others have posted about this interesting little quirk.

As a "for instance" on other costs you can count on utility bills for a small home in Asuncion to run you around $10-$20 for water, $50 - $200 for electric (depends on your love of A/C as it's so hot here and A/C sucks down so much electricity!) a few dollars for propane refills for the propane run stove/oven, around $80 for cable or satellite TV service if you must have it, and figure $80 for internet thru various methods as planning figure. As for phones I'd not consider a landline but just rely on cell coverage with a cheap phone using pay as you go minutes maybe $25 a month.

Food will be much cheaper here if you buy the locally produced stuff and stay away from the big super markets with higher cost pre-packaged stuff. A small family could possibly eat decently for around $400 a month.

I'm sure others on this forum may have slightly different figurs for you on various items, but that's from our experiences of both living in Asuncion and a bit further out in San Bernardino off and on. Hope this gives you an idea.

Best of luck with the plans.

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You can check out this video in Spanish to give you a general idea::

¿Cuánto cuesta vivir en Paraguay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA7pHwVrYII

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Have you not considered Ecuador? 2BR/2Bath with utilities, phone, cable ,heat (you are at 8,000 ft) with daytime temps from 50 in the AM to 77 in the PM every day...
check out Cuenca. Lunch is 1.75, 500 mls. beer for 1.50 at restaurant. Beach is 3 hours away...

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my first 2 months in asu downtown was a huge surprise. Portugal is actually cheaper at the present. Further you go from downtown center, the more you get in touch with the rural side of the country. Overall costs are cheaper.

If you are a fish lover, consider Portugal ( been missing that ), since fish is a luxury item here.

Regards

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