# WhatItBuys

> The honest comparison for buying and living abroad


## Posts

- [Where Your Budget Goes Furthest in 2026: Our Index at a Glance](https://whatitbuys.com/where-budget-goes-furthest-2026/): A fast tour of our 34-city index, by what each corner does best.
- [How to Choose Your Digital Nomad Base City](https://whatitbuys.com/choose-digital-nomad-base-city/): After the third country, most remote workers stop wanting more destinations and start wanting a base.
- [Bodrum or Fethiye: Picking a Turkish Aegean Base as a Digital Nomad](https://whatitbuys.com/bodrum-or-fethiye-digital-nomad/): Turkey's digital nomad visa (launched 2024) opened the Aegean to remote workers who want Mediterranean life outside Schengen day-counting.
- [Asking Price Is Not Sale Price: How We Grade Property Data](https://whatitbuys.com/asking-price-vs-sale-price-data-grades/): Most property content quotes asking prices as if they were facts. They are opening bids.
- [Rent First or Buy Now? The 12-Month Rule](https://whatitbuys.com/rent-first-or-buy-now/): The most expensive property mistake abroad is buying in the wrong micro-location, and the cheapest insurance against it is a 12-month lease.
- [International Schools: The Hidden Line in a Relocation Budget](https://whatitbuys.com/international-schools-relocation-budget/): For families, school fees decide more relocations than property prices do.
- [Healthcare Abroad: What Movers and Digital Nomads Actually Pay](https://whatitbuys.com/healthcare-abroad-costs/): Healthcare is the budget line people forget until the visa application demands it.
- [The 90/180 Schengen Rule, Explained for Part-Time Living](https://whatitbuys.com/schengen-90-180-rule-explained/): If you buy in Spain or Portugal without taking residency, this one rule governs your calendar.
- [Can a Digital Nomad Get a Mortgage Abroad?](https://whatitbuys.com/digital-nomad-mortgage-abroad/): Short answer: sometimes, with bigger deposits, and the country matters more than the bank.
- [Antalya or Alanya: Turkey's Mediterranean on a Budget](https://whatitbuys.com/antalya-or-alanya/): Turkey's Mediterranean coast concentrates its foreign buyers in two places an hour apart.
- [Manchester vs Birmingham: The UK Yield Question](https://whatitbuys.com/manchester-vs-birmingham-yields/): Overseas buyers shortlisting the UK usually end at the same two names.
- [Dubai or Abu Dhabi? Freehold Zones and What They Mean](https://whatitbuys.com/dubai-or-abu-dhabi-freehold/): In the UAE, the first question is not which tower, it is which zone, because foreigners own freehold only in designated areas.
- [Lisbon vs Porto for Foreign Buyers](https://whatitbuys.com/lisbon-vs-porto/): Portugal's two cities answer different questions.
- [Alicante or Malaga? Choosing Your Spanish Coast](https://whatitbuys.com/alicante-or-malaga/): Two airport cities, two coasts, one choice that shapes everything downstream.
- [Digital Nomad in Valencia: Why It Keeps Topping the Lists](https://whatitbuys.com/digital-nomad-valencia/): Valencia has spent years near the top of global expat and remote-work rankings, and the reasons are structural, not hype.
- [Golden Visas Are Disappearing in Europe. Here Is What Still Works](https://whatitbuys.com/golden-visas-europe-what-still-works/): The era of buying a European flat and collecting a residence card is over in the mainstream markets.
- [The All-In Cost Trap: Why Your Budget Buys Less Than the Listing Price](https://whatitbuys.com/all-in-cost-trap/): The single most common mistake international buyers make: treating the listing price as the price.
- [Qatar's $200,000 Property Residency, Explained](https://whatitbuys.com/qatar-property-residency-explained/): Qatar joined the buy-to-reside club with clear numbers: property of about $200,000 brings a renewable residency permit for you and your family, and around $1,000,000 unlocks the premium tier with extra benefits including broader coverage and services.
- [Turkey's $200,000 Residence Permit: Three Checks Before You Buy](https://whatitbuys.com/turkey-200k-residence-permit-checks/): Turkey offers one of the lowest buy-to-reside thresholds anywhere: a renewable residence permit with property from $200,000, and citizenship from $400,000.
- [How Buying Property Gets You a UAE Residence Visa](https://whatitbuys.com/uae-property-residence-visa/): Among our destinations, the UAE gives the clearest answer to "can buying get me residency?": yes, with published thresholds.
- [Spain or Portugal for Digital Nomads? The Honest Comparison](https://whatitbuys.com/spain-vs-portugal-digital-nomads/): Both Iberian neighbours run dedicated digital nomad visas. The differences are real.
- [The Spain Digital Nomad Visa, Explained Simply](https://whatitbuys.com/spain-digital-nomad-visa-explained/): Spain's digital nomad visa is the main door into Spanish residency for working people since the golden visa closed in 2025. Here is the plain version.
- [What $350,000 Buys on the Costa Blanca: Alicante vs Torrevieja vs Javea](https://whatitbuys.com/what-350k-buys-costa-blanca/): Three towns, one coastline, one budget. The answers could not be more different.

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