Comment by Stevvo

4 days ago

Ok but most of the populated areas of the Canary Islands are a tourist shithole, not somewhere you would want to live.

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littlecranky67  4 days ago

The two capitals (Santa Cruz and Las Palmas) are pretty good spot to live in. Tourism focuses on the south on both islands. Las Palmas has a beach with a bit touristic activity, but its not drinking tourism like Mallorca or Benidorm. Combined with nice weather all year round overall a greaet place to live. Very walkable cities, you can do without a car. Due to nice weather, you can always go by bike or scooter. Taxis are cheap. Thanks to the tourists, cheap flights all year round, every day, to all major european cities.

But yeah, if you come with kids, factor in private schools. The public system here is broken. As for internet, I pay less than 10€/month for 500Mbit fibre - I couldn't even get that in Germany and if could it would be north of 80€.

  • wolvoleo  4 days ago

    There's very little decent work though. If you live there you're either fully remote which is rare these days, or you work in the tourist industry.

    • pvaldes  3 days ago

      > If you live there you're either fully remote, or you work in the tourist industry.

      Or you are a doctor, a teacher, an architect or a bananas farmer. Some of the richest families in the islands just export/import commodities since three generations.

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