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Moving to TENERIFE🏝 | 9 Months AFTER | THINGS and DRAWBACKS we DON'T LIKE 👎
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Moving to TENERIFE | 9 Months AFTER | Things we DON'T LIKE
After 9 months on this beautiful island, there are certain things we dont like. It's natural:)
We listed 12 things we dont like in Tenerife, hope it helps
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Thanks for the good tips, it’s different from the perspective of somebody who lives there versus somebody who is going on vacation. 👍
Thanks for watching
Hi, thank for this video. We are on holiday right now in Puerto de la Cruz and I have seen coffee beans in the Mercadonna at the Centro Commercial Martianez.
Yes, there are. But not the ones we like :)
@@LensVagabonds understood 👌
Hi guys, thank you for all the great videos. We are seriously considering moving to Tenerife this year and your information is amazing. It's actually the best we found on the internet so far. Just a quick question (maybe I missed it in your videos) - do you have any recommendation on where on the island to live?
Hi Jan, glad we could help. Its a matter of preference where to live, we like it in the north, but most people move in the south, its warmer, especially in winter
Nice video!
I'm also thinking about moving out of Romania sometime in the future and it happens that Tenerife and Austria are my top 2 options. I would love a video comparing the life in these 2 so different countries.
I think we did something :) In any case we have a romanian channel called: Vagabonzi cu Obiective
The best shooting ever! Thanks bro'
Anytime
Sunteți tari! Bravo ! 😎👍👌
Multumim
Excellent how this blog turns out, congrats guys. Question you've probably been asked before: why Tenerife and not Gran Canaria? Cheers!
Thanks a lot. Well, we've been here more often in the past years. Seemed a more reasonable fit or choice for pur family dynamic. Probably also the fact that we have 2 airports, one of which is 15 minutes drive from home:)
I find most of these things rather positive than negative. 😉 It all depends on what you are looking for.
Absolutely!!
Hello guys, lovely to watch You… we are planning to move to Tenerife at some point in about 1year or 2 years. It would be great to give us some updates on Tenerife. Regards from Slovakia
Hi Lucia. Thanks for the message, We are planning a new video
Nice! ❤ You have had a good selection of topics filmed up regarding life in Spain in English language available. Waiting paciently! 😊
Hey Guys! Nice to see your videos, I think it makes a you more aware of the dream of moving there. We are also from Romania, but we live in The Netherlands. Ever since we went first time in Tenerife, 10 years ago we're dreaming of moving there. I also work in IT. do you work remote for a Spanish company or for a Austrian one? Are you guys planning on movig back to Austria or keep on staying in Tenerife? Cheers and all the best!
Thanks. I worked for a spanish company with spanish contract. No we are not planning to move back:) Check out our romanian channel Vagabonzi cu Obiective
There are social benefits here in Spain and in the Canaries for families starting from 3 kids (familias numerosas) they get grants for school and discounts in many things. Social benefits in Spain are for people who really need them, and you don't look like specially in need. As you said so many times we are very poor here in the Canaries it might seem logical for us to assits first our own people instead of giving away money to people from abroad.
To get from the system you have to contribute to the system first or be poor. Probably, neither is your case.
Being surprised about not finding jobs in mining or manufacturing industries here in an archipielago with no raw materials nor resources is kind of laughable.
I'm sure that if you would have taken the effort of learning Spanish you would have found better jobs, benefits and integrated better. It is kind of very lordlike intending that locals adapt to you instead of you adapting to the coountry you are moving to and which is accepting you and your family. I'm sure that if I moved to Austria they would expect me to learn German.
In Tenerife there are shops and food from everywhere in the world, my brother in law is German, lives in Tenerife and buys salami and sausages on a regular basis (they are both trash but who am I to say get you out of your mistakes). In the Canaries there are melons, watermelons, peaches, apricots, watermelons, and a thousand of fruits more, every crop has its season, but when we don't have them we import them from anywhere else in the world. I own a few peach trees myself and their season is in summer.
How Wonderfull everything is perfect in your eyes here in Tenerife :):)
Thanks for the Info. Be blessed
I actually love the flight connections Tenerife has. You can get great deals to go almost anywhere. If you are a resident, you can get to Madrid or Barcelona very cheap and from there wherever you want.
It pretty much depends where you fly to. We fly to Romania and Austria very often. To Romania there’s only 1 direct flight / week. To Vienna maybe two flights. We are also residents and we have the 75% discount, but when we fly to Vienna with a layover we have to spend hours or even the night between flights. Often times it’s not worth for us:)
@@LensVagabonds Yeah, It depends where you are from and what you need to do. For work, I can see how it can be problematic. Especially if you have children. I am from Northern Europe, so traveling from there is always a hassle. Austria is in a central location so of course, it can't compare to that. If you are used to living in the periphery of Europe and like to travel, moving to the Canaries is certainly an upgrade. Connections from the Canary Islands to central Europe are much cheaper and more frequent than say from Finland or Sweden.
Very interesting. I work remotely so in theoy I could move to Tenerife, but I also love cycling, so maybe I should consider other places like Mallorca.
Well, Tenerife is very attractive for digital nomads. Internet is very good almost everywhere, we have a lot 5G coverage. In terms of biking, I think if you like to bike outside the cities on rural streets ...that is ok. But in the city not much going on
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Thanks man
I agree 😊 like and comment!! We are waiting for your next video guys! Exiting times for you I hope.
what was that page , arranging "settings" in the end of the video?
Nice one
Thanks for watching
I like watching videos about what foreigners think about my island. I agree with you, its a good video. I am glad you have said its your fault you dont speak Spanish. Obviously, you are in Spain, if you want to addapt you MUST speak Spanish, except if you are living in the South and in many situations i believe it would be needed too. But something i would like to comment, flats are difficult to rent because "okupación" google it, because maybe you dont know about it. Carnival is normally in February, March, but this year because of COVID it has moved to June, normally its not in June.
Greetings from La Laguna.
Hello David, thanks for your insight. Appreciate it
about adopting with having to learn spanish if living in spain - i completely agree. its just common sense.
wait a second. are you trying to say okupas are a common thing in teneriffe too? i know about madrid, barcelona, andalusia as main areas for that, but canary islands, teneriffe? would be nice if you can provide some information on that.
@@Robin-hp8pu my mother and my 2 aunts has a building situated in SC (Barrio Salamanca) and they have 8 flats on it. They rent them and one of the tenants didnt pay the rent for two years because she didnt have enough money, my mother and my aunts reported it to the justice and they lost the judgment. Its not exactly "okupación" but with this example you can see how things work in Spain. Obviously, now they rent the flats and they are asking for guarantors, in case the tenant doesnt pay. Nowadays, prices are rising a lot because the amount of people living in the island its not sustainable. Anyways, its much cheaper than in the rest of european countries, but if you want to live in a good place in the capital city of Tenerife you will spend around 850-1000 euros.
@@Robin-hp8pu I'm glad someone said it, there's a real problem with property rights in Spain, that is added risk, and added risk is expensive.
Hi. Thanks for the information. What do you think about renovation business? If I make a good quality job and do almost everything inside the house, can I be tranquilo moving to the island and working by my own? I speak Spanish of course. Thanks
I really have no idea:(
We're now here for 2 months. Yes, some specific fruits like watermelon can be costly, but overall, I've never eaten that fresh and cheap fruits and vegetables. Though, we never buy in the supermarket, only in our local Fruiteria or on Saturdays farmers market in Candelaria. Coffee? The real negatives are in my opinion the bureaucracy, deliveries, and I agree, come here as a self-employed, a remote worker, or entrepreneur. But if you want to find a job here? With a lot of hard work you'll find one. But this is absolutely not the place to go to find work.
You're correct
wow some major cons indeed , good to think on. Thank you!
hi guys, im also from vienna, but lets continue in english.. ;-) i was wondering about how you take care about your pension, pensionsversicherung, if you work for a spanish company? will you get an austrian (or romanian) pension, or how´s your plan on that? im asking bcs we have more or less the same plan like you had with moving to teneriffe ;-)
Hey USER:) Didn't give to much taught on that. But I asume if you are employed here and live here for 10 years lets say, and then move back, all working years not matter the country will be calculated towards your pension. It is like this all over Europe
So complete. Did you make any research on how to move furniture/clothes/apartment stuff from Vienna to Tenerife? Gracias!
Hey! Not really. We just decided to sell everything :)
An idea is to build a car sharing company in the south if possible. It would definetely work. I got a flat there and see millions of visitors everytime. But maybe only the car rental companies have the right and monopol. I don't know. Have a great time
Or a motorhome rental
Are the Kids are still OK with your descision? Can i ask you how much money per month do you need as family (without rent and extras ) just normal confortable live. We thinking about moving.....within the next year
A family of 5 will need between 2000 -2500 monthly, that is if you can live humbly :)
@@LensVagabonds Thank you very much...
Hiya guys.. Really random message but my partner and I are moving to Tenerife with our two children early next year! We are also Christians and would love to pick your brains about your experiences?! Hope the family is well ❤️
Hi, I think we answered on Instagram :)
So what's the name of the company that organised the photoshoot?
You mean the setting? Don't remember
Coffee?!? Yikes!! Latin America seems to have great coffee everywhere and Europe too! What happened?!? ❤
No idea
@@LensVagabonds?
I found it very easy to find coffee, you do know tenerife grows its own coffee?
I really like Bonka.
Thanks for the info. Madeira it is then
Thanks for watching
same for me!
Hello! Where You recommend renting a car? how much does it cost you per month?
If your're on holiday I recommend Pluscar or Cicar
No, we want to move :)
@@zanezalite3280 Then buy one
I would love to go there real soon. I am descendant of Guanches and want to go back to my homeland. I wonder if the aboriginal get a tax break since the island belong to them.
Sir how much your apartment rent
A lot :)
After that i love Tenerife....
Theres much more to love here. Thanks :)
Great video. Thank you for your work.
Thinking to move to canary island, still thinking which one is best. Have you visited another islands around?
I don’t have to work …. Just want to buy house and enjoy life in civilisation .
Yes we have visited other islands in the archipelago, but Tenerife for us is the best.
What happend to you two, no new videos
Hey, yes we've been quite busy but today I will upload a new one
Mybe try wheelerdealer , English guy is owner and it looks like he’s team know what they are doing
For mechanics?
@@LensVagabonds yes, he has nice car shop. let us know how it went as well.
Thanks for this video. We consider buying a small apartment on Tenerife (first we'd probably rent something for at least half a year to see if the island suits us) and either moving there, or renting it short-term and spending some winter months there. One thing from the video that worries me the most is air quality - I live in Poland and during the winter air quality is a nightmare, so for a winter escape I'd like to go somewhere with perfect air, where I don't have to hide in my home with air purifier, like I'm already doing here.
Thanks for watching. I asume you are referring to Calima. Dont worry, Calima is like 2-3 times a year and it last between 1 day to 4-5 days. And it cand be a mild calima or a bad one. But is not like is constant
@@LensVagabonds Thanks for replying. Yes, I was talking about Calima. That's comforting then, I thought the issue was significantly worse. Cheers.
As Lens Vagabonds already clarified, I wouldn’t worry about calima. I moved to Santa Cruz a couple of months later, also from Vienna. Happy to report that the climate here is consistently better than in Central Europe. Even in the warm season. The only thing I miss a bit is the European spring, late April, early May, when everything is blooming at once.
@@LensVagabonds there’s more than 2/3 claimas a year In Tenerife Lol
@@ChristianSchuh Thanks for replying. Agree about the climate, I spent two weeks in Santa Cruz last november and I wanted to cry when I had to go back, from sunny mid 20s to cloudy single digits. But true, even if I lived on Tenerife whole year I'd probably visit my home country between April and May, it really gets beautiful.
Male of these species , i love unexpected humor))))))))
Link is missing in the final
No no, its there :)
@@LensVagabonds my bad
When is the next youtube video?
Soon, probably next week
So how do people live? The rent is so expensive
Can't say, but most people are happy to be here
Excellent video, but , I think is a terrible mistake try to compare an Island with a big city in europe , because first , we are not a big city , our population is less than a big city , we are a volcanic islands soo is just mountain and beach ... beatiful mountains and beachs but thats it. In refering to make a orders online , burocracy in canary Island with the aduanas is really anoying. Is soo hard get something from outside but I releat is a Island in the atlantic ocean soo thata mean is not close to anything. About the events sometimes is something but also you have to think about canary people is not the same like the rest of spain , our musical taste is more kind of latin music and it is a lot of events with this kind of grouos or singer, also we have a few tecno events. But if you expected international bands is bot the place except if a bands sing in spanish like Maná for example. About the mechanic yes totally agree , about the be "puntual" yes totally agree dont going to happen , we live to relax sometimes , but we know each other soo we know that when we say at 10 we dont day at 10 we say 10 , 10:30 ,11 and this is not the gime for meet this is the time like you expected be out of your home hahaha but even close ... soo yes we are like this. About the people dont speak english is true and I think one of the problem if you compare with Europe is in spain or france we translate evrything soo thats mran you dont need learn english for anything at all , we translate movies , series ... we watch evrything in spanish. For example rigth now I live in sweeden and here they dont translate anything evrything is in original version and thats help a lot because thats mran you have to learn. Im from Tenerife and I can tell you one thing if you eant make money dont go there , if you want have a kind of live that you want big events big mals... dont go there,if you have to travel a lot ... is not the rigth place but if you want a relax live and take it easy is your place. About the food Im spanish and Im from Tenerife , I lived in Netherlands , england and sweeden .... diferent taste but for me definitly dpanish food dpecial canary island is better at least we have more variety. But lime I say the food is just depend where you grow up is totally diferent flavours. Your videos are really good , good job and I hope you and your family have a good time there but yes if you looking for kind of experience like a big cities ... Madrid, London.. is not the rigth place 😁😁
Great insight from you man, thanks for sharing. We love the island and live here
What is your experience in ordering from places like aliexpress or similar websites? Does it take a lot longer than it would in mainland Spain?
@@Invisiblehand123 well, is like 1 months or more (80% of the time is more) from Aliexpress.
Cool, thanks for the information, are there any good online stores locally?
How are you?😘
All good
I am not worry about jobs as I want to retire there from USA with a yearly pension of 55K US Dollar.
Good for you
If you want just have a relax live because you are retire is your place
There are no tourist jobs either. I have a first hand experience in Dubai in a five star hotel and it has been 8 months i have not been able to get a job just because i dont speak spanish enough. I have gotten some interview calls but after telling them i dont really speak spanish they sent me a msg on whatsapp apologizing that my hiring is unsuccessful. Fyi i am moving back to Dubai. I come from Pakistan which you all call a 3rd world country but honestly this tenerife is shittier than that.
Hi, sorry for you experience. I have a cousin she came from Rome in November and printed her resume on paper. She went to several restaurant and bars in the south, and got job offers in an instance. Maybe that's a solution. Wish you all the best
When are you going back to your wonderful Pakistan?
@@gatewaypartners8018 its none of your business where i go and don’t and indeed it is wonderful.
@@gatewaypartners8018 why do you have to buy me the ticket?
You got wrong with the island, go to cosmopolitan LAS PALMAS in Gran Canaria, bigger city. Tenerife is too rural, for a holiday is ok, not to live.
No no, we love it here. It's very ok for us to live here
@@LensVagabonds Ok but talk about Santa Cruz or Tenerife, not about "Canary Islands" when you say it is small city, no bike lines, not internacional community, no cultural offer, etc.
@@franciscomendez4565 Dude, have you read the title ? :))))
Laguna-Santa cruz is bigger in size than las Palmas. It also has more population. La laguna is also World Heritage. I can say the best thing of gran canaria: sometimes, if you are lucky and look the right direction, you can see Tenerife :P
@@MoonLab_Gaming That is totally false. Las Palmas, of the top ten cities in Spain, has more inhabitants than the two small cities of Tenerife together, which are "village" type cities. In addition, joining the neighboring municipality of Telde, Las Palmas has twice as much as Santa Cruz/La Laguna together. Gran Canaria is the first tourist destination for digital nomads for a reason. The best of Tenerife is the South for pensioners.....That is why there is not foreigners in Santa Cruz( well, you have people from Venezuela, you are aslo cosmopolitan hahahah) Greetings from the cosmopolitan Las Palmas (Las Canteras beach) and Santa Cruz is a nice town but let's not compare please....sorry...
If all the negatives are true, why are you still there?
Because we love it here. Negatives don't mean we can't enjoy living here
As a person that lives here, in Tenerife, I want to say that locals are suffering the mass arrival of people that comes to the island. Such a demand is making rents unaffordable, and the public services are collapsed. We have thousands of cars and so unbearable traffic just because the Gouverment does not regulate anything.
If any person wants to come to live here I'd say please don't. This is not a paradyse anymore, it's becoming a Big city, this is loosing its atractive and there are more and more inequalities and poverty.
What mass arrival? The population is damn near stable in Tenerife. There's an issue with bureaucracy and inefficient government for sure.
@@Invisiblehand123 We have 5 million tourists per year and +14000 new residents per year. ¿Isn't that mass arrival? XD
@@hinenikTourism is the very lifeblood of the islands. Although prices could be increased in my opinion. Selling 1€ pints is not a good business model.
Are you talking about total migration or actual residency approvals?
@@Invisiblehand123 The problem is not tourism, the problem is the tourism model, which focuses more on quantity than quality.
Let's compare with Galapagos, which is an archipelago that is making a great effort to conserve its natural values: in 2019, the Canary Islands received more than 15 million tourists, while Galapagos (which has a larger surface area) received 270,000 (56 times less than the Canary Islands).
Are they starving? No. Is tourism their main activity? Yes. Is it sustainable over time? Probably. In the case of the Canary Islands, we are already running out of cetaceans, fish, forests and virgin landscapes. But people like to boast that we had LOT of tourists, and if more hotels and roads are not built, it looks like we are going to sink.
@@Invisiblehand123 Then there are the digital nomads and people who can afford to have a second home here. It's not a bad thing per se, but if 14,000 new people come here every year, that's thousands of homes that won't be available for locals, and therefore local people, like me, can't afford to rent a flat for 1000 euros a month.
The problem is not residency or tourism, the problem is that there is no regulation by the Canarian Government (which also continues to sell to foreigners who come to live here).
Hello. I have seen the video and I do not agree with what is stated, I am sorry. To begin with, there is aid and of all kinds, for large families and the unemployed or people who have no income. In my case, we are a family with three children, that is, a large family and for this reason, we have a lot of help of all kinds from the Canarian government, the town hall, the Tenerife government and the Spanish government, for transportation, studies, healthcare and more. things and that my wife and I work. Then Social Security gives you a helping hand every six months for being a large family and the Treasury, the same. Then, you have reinforcement classes for free studies by the city council, in this case, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, as well as many social aids, such as fixing the house and they even pay your water and electricity bills if you don't have income. And so much help. That is why many Spaniards and Canaries are complaining to the government that many people are arriving from abroad and receive, without having contributed anything in the country, many social aids. If you have not looked or asked carefully in each organism, of course you do not have these aids. Even the cost of books is covered by the council. I no longer even tell you about helping the elderly or the elderly who live alone and receive help from going to volunteers or social workers for tasks at home, calls twice or depending on your home to find out if you're okay, a system that notifies the toilets if you feel unwell or do not answer the social service call. There are many social aids and of all kinds.
Thanks
@Banana Joe where are you from?
@@MariaGarcia-yv7nyBanana Joe is from the Banana Republic 🤭
Hi, very well done video and well explained the things we need to pay attention. Go ahead. We are waiting for other videos. When you have time please check the Facebook messenger, I left you a message. Thank you.
Thank you, I will