so welcome to today's more acura show um kevin is taking a little break from making youtube videos
today so um i'm gonna do a video and i decided we're gonna talk about something that a lot of
people kind of asked in the past and this is cost of living in morocco um so we did we did
some videos of shopping at the souk or showing the prices at different restaurants from street food
to like middle range or even high-end restaurants but it's all kind of scattered around the channel
so today i decided um to talk about the cost of living in morocco so first um i would just like
to explain a little bit about our situation um because when you search for cost of living in
morocco or any other countries it usually goes by cities big cities like casablanca marrakesh
rabbat tangier and so on and we don't live in a big city so we decided to
live a little bit out of the city because we prefer beaches and nature and smaller towns
so we live approximately 15 minutes out of agadir north of agadir in a
village where it's mostly um local so there is not a lot of um foreigners living here there are some
um but not too many and this village used to be known for surfing bc so before corona
now it's going to be almost one year since we are in lockdown and there are almost no tourists here
so it was kind of touristy area before but at the moment is not because there is not a lot of
tourists i'm saying this because this influences um the prices of rent um and so on so we're
gonna start with um our rent we did the tour de apartment uh we're gonna add the videos so we're
gonna add a cart on the top so you can check our apartment and we pay 2 500 your homes for
the rent here as i said this is not in the city is a little bit outside of the city
but basically we have everything we need here we have bakery we have shops
um we have restaurants we can order food for delivery we have moroccan restaurants we have
just regular restaurants where you can order pizza and burgers we have let's be which is very healthy
option we have sushi so we can walk pretty much everywhere we can walk to the beach we can walk
to the mountain we can walk to the pharmacy so basically for our needs everything is here
excuse me that was more accurate coming from the terrace um so we paid 2 500 for this apartment
as you might see it's two bedroom like one bedroom is really small but small but it can be used as a
bedroom for guests let's say um this apartment would cost 2 000 unfurnished but we don't have
like any of our own furniture um there is another apartment upstairs which is also 2500
is one bedroom apartment but it has direct exit to the terrace which we don't have here we are on
ground floor um so if you want to use the terrace we have to exit the other door go upstairs and
there is a small terrace for us um our neighbor um he's paying three thousand um but he has two
bedrooms and the terrace so it's three thousand um another friend here in this area is paying 2500
for a one-bedroom apartment but nice private terrace as well so i would say in this area
apartment starts with 2000 unfurnished and of course if you go closer to agadir it's gonna be
more expensive i would say three starting three to four thousand deer hunt um per one bedroom
apartment and this goes for all the cities of course if you don't wanna be by the beach if you
if you don't mind to be like in the mountains or in the villages or more on the countryside the
prices are going to be even lower um our friend in warsaw is paying 800 year humps for the apartment
but it's like very moroccan apartment there is no windows um there is no western toilet
or shower there so it's very basic but if you um don't mind so if you like simple life um
you can get like apartment for 800 your homes of course of course not in the city and not at
the beach at least not at popular area as this used to be if you want to rent the whole house
i would say it's gonna cost you approximately the same two thousand five hundred to three thousand
per floor so we showed one house tarek's house we're gonna
add the video here where you can check his house it's like three floors i think and the terrace
and let's see the price for this house would be eight thousand to ten thousand dirhams
and again this is out of the big city so we are not in a big city um of course if
you want to have a pool or anything like that it's gonna all add up to your housing
um next thing is utilities so we pay for the electricity each month 80 to 100 year hum
i don't know why but we don't pay for the water so i think water is
included in our rent because we never got the bill for the water
there is also no bills for the garbage i don't know why because we have like a huge garbage bin
outside but i think it's paid by our landlord we just paid paid for garbage once it was 20 dirham
um the guy just knocked on the door and they they gave us like a small receipt and we gave them 20
dirhams um we pay for the cat the gas we have two gas bottles one is for the stove and one is for
um water heat heating heating the water and um one gas bottle is approximately 43 deer humps
and we change them every two months but we have to so let's say 43 year humps per month for gas
um so those are our utilities um so i would say that's maybe 150 per month max and another thing
is that we have at the moment is wi-fi and we pay 240 dirham per month before we were three people
splitting the wi-fi now we are two um it's not the best wi-fi but it's not the worst um if you are
looking for a wi-fi i suggest you to try different options because not everything is going to work
for you next thing food so food is like that if you buy your fruits and veggies at the local
market you can save a lot a lot of money if you're just gonna go to big supermarkets like marjan
it's gonna be of course more expensive but as you might notice we go to the souk every week almost
every week and we buy a bunch of veggies and fruits and even lentils pasta and stuff like that
so we basically do our um weekly grocery there and then in the small shops in the hanoots here in the
village we just buy whatever we need maybe some yogurts um and so on bread we buy from the local
local bakery and if you watch some of our stock videos you might see that the veggies kill off
of veggies starts or even like three deer humps per kilo fruits five to six grams per kilo which
is like 50 cents and berries are more expensive let's say kilo of strawberries is 12 deer humps
um you can also buy like really cheap bread moroccan flat bread starts at one dirham
um baguettes at the bakery are 125 deer humps so it's really affordable um let's say lentils half
of kilo of lentils at the souk or half of kilo of pasta and the soup is five year humps so prices
are really really low so it's all depends how much you eat or what do you like to eat kilo of chicken
here in the village from the chicken guy is 30 dirhams yeah 30 dirhams for kilo of chicken so
we just buy it here locally and of course if you want to buy cheese that's more expensive let's say
heart cheese i think it's 100 grams is around 10 to 12 dirhams um and other cheeses are more
expensive so if you like a lot of cheese and prepare prepare to pay more money
so those those are just some basics oh and the water so we buy big jugs of water five liters um
and the one that we buy atlas i think the green one is 12 deer humps so those are just like some
prices just to give you the idea how much does it cost um one more thing is transport which
it's not always the best but you can always find an option if there is no public transport there is
always going to be some sort of taxis in the big cities you have petite taxis or small taxis which
are really cheap really affordable um and you can usually go everywhere in the city for 20 30
40 deer humps it depends where you go the buses here are really affordable one-way ticket from
our village to let's say agadir is five dirham or 50 cents the same shared taxi so if we want to go
um to agadir with share taxi is usually 10 dirhams per person which is like less than a euro
which i think it's really good price for a taxi um in between cities we travel by bus because here in
south morocco there is no train and usually we pay 80 to 100 year humps for let's say three to four
hour journey by bus so let's say asawira was 80 dirham and bus tomorrow cash is usually around
100 dirham which i think it's really good price um the best buses are city and buses
as we also told before in the video but you have many many local buses many options
which are also um cheaper usually um now we don't have a car as i said we have everything here that
we need so if we want to travel we just travel by public bus but if you want to rent a car
um it usually costs around 250 dirhams so um 23 euros per day um and if you rent it for longer
you can negotiate for a better price around 200 year hum per day um guess i had to check the
price of the gas because of course we don't buy gas and i think it was around 10 dirham
per liter um diesel is even cheaper and yeah that's about transport so it's not always
available or easy but there is always somebody who's gonna pick you up or gonna just drive you
sometimes we just stand by the road and people just like pick us up and then we pay them five
their homes to drove us to the um our rear village which is bigger village where you can uh buy more
stuff there is a post office and so on another thing uh gym membership which is quite popular
even here in this village we have a gym i don't go because there are only men there but kevin paid
um 200 year hum for a month which is like 18 or 19 euros so those are just like some basic things
that i wanted to cover in today's video of course of course there is like a lot or a lot of other
things that you can buy or spend money on um one thing that we don't spend money on um and it can
make a big difference in your monthly budget is cigarettes and alcohol and clubs so i know that's
like a lot of people like to go to clubs and bars and um just have a nice drink on dinner um
yeah you're gonna spend more money i think cigarettes are one cigarette is 1.5
deer hum so you can buy cigarette per piece or we can buy a box boxes usually whole boxes i
don't know i would say like 25 to 30 deer humps um alcohol you can buy alcohol in liquor shops
or get it at a restaurant um wine starts like cheap bad wine that i do not recommend starts
with 40 deer humps um but if you're buying wine i would go for like middle range from let's say
70 to 80 deer humps per bottle of wine and up um of course if you're buying wine at
the restaurant it's gonna go up again so maybe expect to pay for a bottle um 200 year humps and
up at the restaurant um the most expensive beer i had was in tanjir this place um
and i paid for one beer uh around 80 deer humps so yeah if you like like to go to nice
places to nice restaurants um and spent on drinks cocktails and so on you can spend a lot of money
yeah okay another thing that i forgot to mention are doctors according to some western
prices of the doctors the doctors here are very affordable um we did a dentist video um
which was removed later but we pay we went to the dentist like two or three times each
and each time we paid in between 200 and 300
deer hums each which is like very affordable compared to some prices um in europe yeah we
actually never went to the doctor but i did um i went to the laboratory and i did like some
tests because i wanted to checks check some of the um what's going on in my blood and that was
around 1 000 and 100 year humps but there was like a lot of things in the results it was like five
pages so i don't know if this is expensive i would say no um and i cannot talk from talk from my own
experience because healthcare in slovenia is free so if i would be back home i wouldn't be paying
for the laboratory or the dentist so those are some prices so if you are here and you want to
visit the dentist i would recommend you to do that definitely um another thing i wanted to
talk about people are often asking about the prices for the apartments we didn't
really do our research because we are not buying apartment here but just recently
um i don't know if you remember when we go to anza sook sometimes you might see in the background new
apartments in your building so they are building a big residence there i'm gonna add the link so you
can check the residence and they have these flyers and commercials um and the price starting from 7
500 dirhams per square meter for the apartment so let's say if you want to buy for 40 square
me to support a meters apartment um it's gonna cost you 300 000 dirhams i would say
um and again this is the residence that they are building just next to anza suk so it's not
in agadir but if you have car you're going to be in a marina of agadir in five minutes um i'm gonna
add also link to this residence so you can see what they are building so you can see the prices
and they have like this nice 3d um presentation of the residence and the buildings and so on
um so yeah i would say 7500 year humps is the price starting for one square meter but bear in
mind this is not in the city is is in anza but again agadir is very close so you have car i
don't see any problem um of course if you go into the city the prices are going to go up again so
that's about it i hope i managed to give you the idea of the prices here in morocco of course i was
just talking from my own experience and experience of kevin and the area where we live in so i hope
you can get the idea and if you have any more questions if you have any more questions about
cost of living or if i wasn't clear about something please let me know we're gonna
add some links in the description under the video so you can watch some previous videos
on cost of living like zooks and restaurants and so on and yeah i think that's about it for today
um i hope you liked today's video thank you all for watching i know you guys requested this video
many times from many different uh for many different reasons and i know i don't have
all the answers but i would say you can leave like simply but very comfortably here for let's say 500
euros if you want to spend 1 000 euros per month you're gonna live very good
you can eat good food every day you can eat outside every day and enjoy your life a lot
um i guess it depends where are you coming from but i think one thousand year uh sorry
one thousand euros in some of the cities in europe is not a lot and yeah i think you can
have pretty good life in morocco so thank you for watching today's video and see you tomorrow