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What 1,500 a month actually covers in a European city, once you stop counting only rent

Adding the line you flagged as lumpy, with the shape of it, because "paperwork" undersells it.

A residence application ran to: the application fee, an apostille on two documents from home, certified translations of both, a health certificate, passport photos to a specific standard, a bank statement showing a minimum balance, and eventually a few hours of a lawyer's time to fix something I had filled in wrong. Individually all small. Together it was more than a month of the rent I was so pleased about.

And it recurs. Renewals are not free, and they arrive on the anniversary you have stopped thinking about.

So I would put it as its own line in the budget at a monthly amortised figure rather than as an occasional surprise, because that is what it is. It is a subscription with an annoying interface.

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