Paradise pays taxes too: a Ukrainian engineer on the real side of digital nomad life in Tenerife
Alexander didn’t mean to stay. In the winter of 2022 he arrived in Tenerife with a specific plan: a few months, then back to Ukraine. A doctor had recommended getting his daughter away from Ukraine’s cold winters, which were aggravating her respiratory problems, and the Canary Islands looked like the right place. As chief engineer […]
No More Automatic Licences: Nine Months In, How the Canary Islands’ New Holiday Rental Law Actually Works
In Breña Baja, a small town on La Palma, council officials and representatives of the island’s Cabildo sat down with a delegate from the regional government to work through, item by item, how to apply a law that has changed the rules of the game for thousands of property owners. It wasn’t a one-off meeting. […]
Bigger than construction’s GDP share: what sport is really worth to the Canary Islands
More than half of Canary Islanders exercise regularly every week, 52%, a figure in line with the Spanish national average and up six percentage points over the past five years. It sounds like a wellness-section statistic, yet it’s the starting point of one of the more interesting economic reports published this summer on the archipelago: […]