I am buying almost everything with bitcoins and I can even send them and receive them in my wallet like real money so its definitely money to me as I am getting the goods in exchange of my bitcoins.
Yes, Here in our country Bitcoin is illegal but I can't remember having my little bit difficulties to use it and convert it to our fiat money. So when there have possibly changed your own money against of any currency, you are free to say that Bitcoin is real money.