HI

WE are planning to mvoe to mauritus, can someone guide us as to current costs in maurituis, rents, food, vegetables, electricty, car maintanince, car insureance, domestic help, etc that one can think of.

Hi neeraj, please take note of the followings:

rent= MUR 5,000 to MUR200,000. depends on what kind of accomodation, whether furnished, unfurnished, a personal house, or just rooms, with or without swimming pools, how many rooms, A/C or without A/C, near sea or not... All these will determine ur accomodation costs...

FOOD: liquid milk = MUR35 per liter, butter = MUR 75 per 500g, Rice= MUR 60 per kg, meat and fish = approx. MUR 55-150 per 500g, depends on what u buying, bread = MUR2.70 - 10 per piece, soft drinks = MUR 40.00 per 1.5 liter.

vegetables vary from MUR 10.00 to MUR 75.00 per 500g.

Electricity vary from MUR 800-3000 per month

car maintainance (normal servicing) is MUR 1000, excluding oil & parts.

car insurance vary from MUR 5,000-50,000 depending on age of car.

maid is at z price of MUR 300-500 per day.

All depends on quality and quantity u searching for...

Goods and services differ a little from villages to towns, village prices are a little lower than that of towns....

Thanks--it was very helpful--may need few more details will mail later.
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Neeraj68 wrote:

WE are planning to mvoe to mauritus, can someone guide us as to current costs in maurituis, rents, food, vegetables, electricty, car maintanince, car insureance, domestic help, etc that one can think of.


Take a look at the following, will give you an idea of rental payments etc

http://www.lexpressproperty.com/en/rent-mauritius

Our electricity averages about Rs 5,000 per month, but you find your swimming pool and air conditioning uses quite a bit of electricity, so thats what bumps it up to the 5,000.

Our water is about Rs400 per month - very low but then we are very careful of water wastage.

Domestic help is extremely cheap I find, it seems the average costs for 20 hours per week is about Rs6,500 per month, some pay less some pay more, all depends on the quality, most of us look after our maids also in other ways - especially if you have a good loyal maid :)

Vegetables especially seasonal ones are very cheap and you can buy direct from the growers at the roadsides, usually with their plot of land used to grow their vegs behind them :)

A lot of people rent or lease their cars, so all costs and services are usually included in this price as I do so no idea on running costs, except that petrol is cheap compared to UK.

I am not sure if the above differs according to where you live on the Island but we live in the West.

Good luck :)