🌊 “I feel like everyone I know is on a permanent holiday” 🌟

Santander city

A close friend made this comment to me last week about how she saw living in Cantabria and in a way it does sometimes feel like that. 

I’m part of a vibrant international community here in Cantabria and many people within that community have flexible working hours. There are lots of remote workers, entrepreneurs, and people engaged in jobs that don’t tie them to a desk 9-5. 

The beauty of flexible working hours in a place like Cantabria is that it allows you to make the most of your surroundings. Working remotely? You can do so from a beach café after a surf. Or maybe pop into the city and use the beautiful co-working space in the old Banco Santander building after meeting a friend for a café con leche on a terraza. Time off in the afternoon is easily spent on a picnic with your children and their friends running around a park and expending energy or having a leisurely cycle on one of the many greenways that crisscross the region. Or head to the beach, the forest, the mountains; there are so many options!

Leisure time aside, Cantabria is an easy place to live. It may be slightly more expensive than neighbouring Castilla y León but it is still cheaper than regions along the Mediterranean like Barcelona and Valencia and has a lower cost of living than the neighbouring Basque region. There is a vibrant international community both in Santander and beyond the city which is easy to connect into whether you are single or moving with a family.