Canary Islands have CHANGED: Brexit, Staff, Visas & Rent! Discussing the differences! 🗞

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[@hithisisme2009]

We went to the vault bar 3 times in the evenings in April and absolutely loved the music there, the atmosphere, the drinks, stuff was really friendly and speedy. We had a great time. It’s nice to meet John in your video!

[@tommycockles336]

Think you ought to inform your pal the 'Brexit expert' that Brexit wasn't a vote to allow British owners of Spanish bars access to cheap labour from the UK

[@TheKnightStrider]

Lol, video was about alot more than employment

[@chrisosborne2083]

Very interesting video Andy , myself and my wife were hoping to retire out in Tenerife/ Spain in about 6 years time so we are desperate for something to happen regarding the freedom of movement rule by then . I did kind of get the vibe that the other guy seemed quite happy that we could only come for 90 days at a time , I’m sure it would be a different scenario if he had jump through the hoops we currently have to . Keep up the good work 🤙

[@johnokeeffe6014]

Well. Brexit means Brexit Thats what England voted for.

[@alexstean3555]

Just home after a month, rented apartment from a Belgian owner, 4th time in 2 years. Complex which was mainly British now owned by other EU citizens. Due to lack of workers the wages will have to rise to attract them, noticeable increase in prices!

[@alexstean3555]

Voted remain as well, as did most of Scotland!

[@hughprice2310]

A really good and informative vlog Andrew. The changes in the rules have affected travel to non EU member country Switzerland. Switzerland is part of the Schengen Agreement and thus, U.K. citizens are restricted by the 3 month rule.

[@junemccann5981]

Very informative as always. Scary just how much lots have changed since Covid. Onwards and upwards hopefully now Andrew. 🥰🌞🥰Xxx

[@anthonymiller8365]

Thank you for the delightful and informative video. It was both lovely and educational. I'm considering moving my work and life there. Could you tell me how easy it is to find native or fluent English speakers for office-related work in the area?

[@emhughes7889]

Excellent vlog as always....

[@ACNC1]

Good vlog..... daily sim roaming charges was another major change, I dunno if there is a work around like you do when you are visiting the states ..... would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this, other than using the local cafe's wifi signal

[@fireflyrobert]

A point worth mentioning is that if you exceed the 90 days in the last 180 days (assuming UK passport, ie non EU) you are tantamount to being an alien (illegal immigrant) in Spain. So I would strongly warn against anyone trying to go over the limit. You might get banned from entry for 2/3 years.

[@larrybxl5406]

100% correct

[@eugenemcgeever2719]

It was a very good blog today of your interview with John chatting about Brexit, staff, visas and rent in the canary Islands in tenerife andrew

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thanks 😊

[@davewallace5307]

Hi Andrew, as a frequent visitor to Tenerife, been looking forward to this 👍

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thanks Dave

[@tsuchan]

I'm not impressed that people were working and paying tax on only half their income. I really really hate that. Whose fault was that? The employees or the business owners? Why don't people pay their due contribution?

[@TheKnightStrider]

Both in theory i suppose

[@davidbirch7120]

Brexit is a typical discussion topic over a drink so quite apt that you interviewed at the Vault. Shame it wasn’t live though and as you would have got many drinks ordered for you! Interesting and good information. Sadly, Brexit was miss-sold and miss-managed with a lack of information of the true impacts in lots of things and many people voted to leave not understanding the long term impacts to their own travel freedoms and choices. I’m sure many regret now. It has also crushed opportunities for youngsters in the future wishing to experience work and life in other countries. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thanks David!

[@elainesayles4624]

If you got your residency before covid and have holiday apartment do you still have to stick to the 90 day rule.

[@valdes707]

Regarding car rental….prices are very high compared to pre pandemic due to a shortage of vehicles on the island but where did the vehicles go?

[@TheKnightStrider]

They Got sold off..shipped to mainland spain etc

[@johngill363]

excellent very informative video

[@wrinklyrocker2479]

Brilliant vlog v interesting and informative. Been in Los Cris since September but got to go home this week 😖

[@kennykool53]

is this the same john that owns the pool bar at paloma beach andrew ?

[@blisterj]

How much to hire a car for a month?

[@TheKnightStrider]

Email [e-mail]

[@RodH245]

Hi Andrew. One of the most informative Vlogs on what things are like now. Didn't realise quite what the impact Brexit had on Tenerife. Particularly interesting for our family as going back (for eighth time) in February. Excellent thanks.

[@wly725]

Better say, all the Canaries.

[@markfoden765]

Hi guys,great vlog that with some good points especially the oart where if you voted to stay in the EU you can come in for longer that the ones that didn't 😆nice bloke and seemed really down to earth🤙👌👍

[@tsuchan]

But that's not true, is it. How could it possibly be? It was a secret ballot. There was no certificate for which way anybody voted. The benefit was for people who relocated before the end of the transition period, to live in the EU, and pay their taxes here.

[@jadelane5458]

What about people that have holiday home's in Tenerife how does that work and I've heard that next year you will need a visa to go to Tenerife is that true?

[@tinamayhew533]

thank you for that guys

[@richardsedorski1206]

Very interesting vid real stuff just back last night those late flights are just horrible.👍👍👍😎😎😎

[@jenniferfisher6744]

Visited the vaults when we were over last month,bought a padlock, and enjoyed the cocktail purple rain x

[@TheKnightStrider]

Great bar

[@stephenbryson5618]

One thing about Brexit that wasn’t touch on was that the British have moved on to nicer and better places where they are treated better, there is also better places to buy property rather than the canaries or in Spain as the bureaucracy and over complicating things, it’s more expensive for flights as well plenty of discussion left I thank. Brexit didn’t kill the canaries

[@hongk0ngfu3y]

thought for finances you needed 26k a year pension to be allowed to settle?

[@TheKnightStrider]

Not sure on that one

[@michaelbate9874]

Some very interesting updates after brexit good v/log Andrew.👍😄x

[@charlenemcgreig3865]

More vids like this would be great. Good to hear from locals what's going on behind the scenes. Got any Spanish business owners you could interview? X

[@TheKnightStrider]

Dont think so

[@kevinwilko5827]

I was over on holiday a month ago and I must say it’s gone down hill a lot I’ve been coming to Tenerife for the last 25 years but this was the worst time taxi drivers rude people who run and Work in the bars are rude don’t want your money it’s like years ago if you walked past a bar and there wasn’t a table they would make you one to get you in there but now everything is expensive and it ain’t just me I’ve heard a few people saying the same aswell I’m gonna try turkey I think lots of good reviews from there ps I think COVID hand outs have ruined the island

[@nocturnal1970]

Thank Boris 😀

[@aidanlyle]

Hi Andrew, when the EU says you have to leave after 90 days, how long do you need to leave Spain before you can re enter for another 90 days ??? Cheers

[@TheKnightStrider]

90 days in a 6 month period

[@aidanlyle]

@@TheKnightStrider Hi, many thanx for the reply 👍

[@hithisisme2009]

www.gov.uk/visit-eu-switzerland-norway-iceland-liechtenstein/how-long-stay-without-visa

[@sarahmiddleton1402]

So much spin and gaslighting out there . So it’s refreshing to hear honest, real impacts of this ridiculous political change.

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thanks

[@JT-ip2vq]

What happens if a Brit overstays (90+ days)?

[@gapyearoldies6661]

A real and interesting insight to all the obstructions much appreciated thank you guys 👍🏻

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thank you 😊

[@andrewthomas2349]

Get ready 4 November guys really think Las Americas Los Chris will be really busy 4the World Cup great vlog Andrew interesting stuff!!

[@TheKnightStrider]

Hope so!

[@malcolmwinn4300]

Great video Andrew,informative as usual,when i was living out there it was quite difficult to get a job all of the time,don't regret living out there,things change,I'm now retired,will definitely be out there next year,from malcolm in rainy hove England,stride on Andrew.

[@ndonald1966]

Fantastic, well informed and balanced discussion on the issues that you guys are facing and the impact that they have on visitors and potential residents. It will be years before the freedom of movement is addressed but may be sped up by a change in UK government who may be more open to a closer relationship with the EU.

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thank you

[@chrisosborne2083]

I so hope your right 👏👏

[@nocturnal1970]

No because Brexit means Brexit 😎

[@AndersLundi]

Really good discussion. Thank you!

[@TheKnightStrider]

Thanks 😊

[@boldaslovemovie5306]

If you are financially stable enough to retire there with no worries about money will Brexit interfere with you living there? And do you have to apply/become a citizen w/o worrying about 90 days? Looking forward to hearing from you. Hope my questions are understanding.

[@larrybxl5406]

Non EU citizens such as UK, Canada, USA, NZ, Australia can retire in Spain. Best type of visa is called Non Lucrative Vias (NLV). With NLV you cannot work in Spain and must have enough pension, rental and/or investment (passsive) income to meet the NLV requirements. I believe for a single person its about €27k perb annum. Also for NLV you need private health insurance. The NLV is valid for 1 yr initally with two subsequent renewals of 2 yrs each. After 5 yrs on an NLV visa you can apply for residencia de larga duracion which is valid for 5 yrs and basically is same as any EU citzen living in Spain.

[@9plusinstalaciones]

Do they sell Pies in The Vault?

[@TheKnightStrider]

Dont think so

[@richardbartlett6932]

Brexit also got rid of a lot of those Brits working here illegally, not registered or paying taxes etc..

[@pinkyewa]

I notice that if you fly to Lanzarote there is no passport stamps in or out (well on none of my 3 trips in the last 8 months or so). People could fly there and get the ferry over and stay as long as they want. Not exactly a long term solution but perhaps may help some.

[@TheKnightStrider]

No one checked in Tenerife either

[@chrisemmersonA340]

Certainly electronic scanning of passports on arrival at ACE when I went in Sept, so somebody know you went in. But yes, nothing on dep (elec or stamps).

[@hongk0ngfu3y]

im sure they system will know how long you have been there so even if your passport doesnt get physically stamped on entry/exit its still logged.

[@pinkyewa]

@@hongk0ngfu3y it's impossible for them to know. When you arrive in Lanzarote you can leave by boat to any other Canary island and fly to any shengan country without going through passport control.

[@hongk0ngfu3y]

@@pinkyewa your passport is scanned at the boarding gate when leaving the UK. You can risk over staying but do your really want to risk it?

[@petermurphy4428]

What an informative and interesting vlog, brexit was and is a disastrous decision, motivated by lies and false predictions which people fell for. We are all continue to suffer from the abysmal outcome from brexit. Thank you Andrew for a really interesting vlog.

[@boldaslovemovie5306]

Well that just ruined my dream 😭 😡! I wanted to move there, buy a house and retire. If I can’t stay as long as I want to I won’t go. That has basically ruined my dream. Any advice anyone?

[@fireflyrobert]

Do you have an Irish grandparent by any chance? In which case you can get an Irish (EU) passport. It took me about 6 months to get it and cost around €250 but was well worth the effort and the expense.

[@nocturnal1970]

​@@fireflyrobert I'm Irish so does that mean I can stay there as long as I want?

[@fireflyrobert]

@@nocturnal1970 if you have an Irish passport then you have an EU passport which gives the holder the right to live, work and retire in any other EU country. You can stay in another EU country for up to three months but if you intend to stay longer you usually have to register your presence there.

[@Gnew2082]

The Knightstrider and the ParkeRanger… we need more of this epic collaboration

[@TheKnightStrider]

Haha thanks Greg hope you’re well 👍🏽😊

[@fitfiddlerz]

Its comical how British people go to foreign countries in search of ... other British people. I think there are Brits in Britain (:

[@wly725]

Hi Andrew! I think the Canary Islands haven't changed so much, but the United Kingdom, for when I was going to travel to London last year, I couldn't just because of all the Covid problems, plus the new laws, high prices, etc. Years ago, we both did not have any of those problems at all. English tourism was the highest a few years ago, so I recognize thanks to some English, we saved our economy a little when the big crisis came, and more things similar. You should rethink about a 'Brex-in', now that Elizabeth 2nd has passed away (she was for staying in the EU), RIP. Nevertheless, I still have my 008 card over there. 😉I mean, my Oyster card.

[@michaelalexander2306]

My mother, aunts and uncles were regular swallowed. They loved it and they used to spend a lot of money on the island. It's stupid to punish these people.

[@TheKnightStrider]

Such a shame

[@stevenfennell7020]

The only people punishing them are the UK government.

[@rixis2940]

As a software engineer I would love to move to the canary islands and work remotely, but without freedom of movement because of Brexit there are way too many hoops to jump through. Frustrating really as my options were taken away by eurosceptics ( I voted remain, was 20 at the time).

[@TheKnightStrider]

Stay positive

[@tsuchan]

Then you could have moved to the Canary Islands before the gates closed around Brexit Britain, no..?

[@rixis2940]

@@tsuchan No, because I was at university getting my degree to get a job in software engineering. I'm not going to move country with no money to my name, that would be stupid.

[@garygoodger]

I’m in exactly the same position, also a software engineer who can work remote, but Brexit has ruined that dream! Hopefully the nomad visa is released eventually

[@tonybell2435]

Pp

[@gary7542]

Did he really admit to losing staff because he was paying them cash in hand beyond their 20 hours? Hope Spanish taxman wasn't watching.

[@TheKnightStrider]

No, listen properly..he didnt even have the bar during lockdown..he said that many businesses here were doing that and thats why so many people left the island during lockdown..

[@colinemerson2863]

Anybody who bought an apartment before brexit should have the wright to stay as long as they wish .

[@liammccartan4825]

Very interesting vlog .Today even the Torygraph has admitted it was a mistake.

[@therealakkherself1296]

From Europe we really are sorry for your Brexit changes. We feel that you have been fooled by the goverment to make a bad choise !

[@f1baby89]

Brexit literally messed my plans for the future up over night ,so badly want to move to tye island

[@TheKnightStrider]

Stay positive

[@bigwideworld387]

I absolutely hope you get there, my partner and I wanted to move to mainland Spain when we retired and we are having to be a bit more open minded where we retire to thanks to brexit, Mexico is even a possibility.

[@jamesboss1052]

Canary Islands need get rid eu make there own rules now

[@andysmith8471]

So far I have not seen any benefits of Brexit, there have only been negatives. Boris Johnson signed off on the Brexit agreement and there are issues with the NI Protocol; so much so that power sharing can't commence in part of the UK. Many employment sectors can't fill the job vacancies they have as they are unable to find staff from the UK willing to do the work. And it has affected a generation of Brits and future generations who would like to spend their retirement in a warmer climate having worked for decades.

[@tsuchan]

Yes, but there are benefits from Brexit... you're just considering only from the British side. There have been lots of Brexit benefits for the remaining EU countries (although whether it has been a _net_ positive is arguable). I think it may well be. It also improves the chance of Irish unification and Scottish independence, which many would chalk-up as a positive. It has definitely resulted in the EU being better understood and valued by citizens of every other Member state.

[@stephencollins2089]

Good vlog guys , very clear what a mess Brexit was and is , i can only agree with john that the remainers should be treated differently ! The fact is that most British people were voting to stop immigration, and that has failed , not only illegal ones still coming but labor shortages in almost all industries have become critical for uk economy, and no solution on the horizon , best we just apply to rejoin the EU asap!

[@tsuchan]

Encouragingly, I'm hearing in this video lots of benefits for local Canarian and European people through Brexit. 🙂

[@nudgenudgewinkwink3212]

I think the origin of the problem with FOM was it became very imbalanced especially after the former communist countries were allowed access to the U.K labour market ,Depressed wages and rocketing house prices and rents meant lots of families at the lower end of the pay scale struggled to afford a house let alone a second one in spain.

[@TheKnightStrider]

Such a shame

[@tsuchan]

And yet the UK is economy is still suffering from a shortage of staff. Their economy can't grow, because there aren't the people to do the work. British companies are importing more because they can't get the staff to do the work in the UK, or get drivers to deliver it to their customers. In some farms, food has been left to rot in the fields, while in other cases farmers have just reduced the amount of food they grow and livestock they rear. The NHS and social care providers can't get the staff they need either. The reason for rocketing house prices and rents (and for that matter shortage of schools, surgeries and utilities) is because the UK government has not managed the provision of housing stock and services; and yet they have successfully sold gullible British people the yarn that it was the fault of immigrants. I would give a hug to every Polish, Bulgarian and Estonian worker for coming to the UK to work hard, pay their taxes and help to build the British economy. Now, more-and-more of them are doing work that benefits EU Members instead, where they get a welcome and can work easily. And plenty of British employers, like myself, have relocated into the new borders of the EU, taking away the jobs and the tax revenues from the UK and bringing them to the EU... increasing UK imports, increasing EU exports. Is that a good thing for the British economy, would you say?

[@tubiesandro]

Why do you use the past tense? Why do you say strugglED and not that they are still struggling more and more 6 years after Brexit? Perhaps the UK has much bigger problems other than FOM

[@nudgenudgewinkwink3212]

@@tsuchan FOM lessened British workers barganing power over employers so the government at the time had to introduce tax credits and other benefits, Lots of British workers are getting better pay and conditions than before. The other issue with FOM is in the countries of origin Romania has lost 50% of its doctors since it became a member and in Lithuania there is a anti emigration political party because it has lost more than 20% of its young working age population.

[@AndersLundi]

Poor voters for brexit...

[@christinesmith3862]

Interesting discussion this morning, what I could hear as the sounds is very muffled and faint even with volume up full? Sounds as though BREXIT is causing Tenerife huge problems from the knock on effect.

[@TheKnightStrider]

The sound is perfect, it must be your tv or what you are watching on..

[@christinesmith3862]

Strange as I watch you frequently on my iPad on you tube and this is the first time I have had an issue! Managed to get the drift of what was being said but it sounded muffled. Thanks for the reply just wondered if it was just me!

[@marshallwood5583]

Very interesting and informative vlog. Easy to just blame UK voters for getting it "wrong". If the EU had shown even some flexibility to the UK requests, and less contempt for the UK, it may never have happened. Sadly, its all a game to our political class

[@tubiesandro]

What more flexibility were you expecting? Britain already enjoyed MORE opt-outs than any of the other 26 countries. The fact that people aren't even aware of this is what explains Brexit. That contempt was never there. It was in people's imagination.

[@stevenfennell7020]

UK had the sweetest deal of any country in the world. Threw it all away on a whim.

[@billblue1]

We live in Uk not Canary Islands

[@TheKnightStrider]

Good for you 😊👍🏽 your watching a channel based in Tenerife

[@angeladelaney4178]

Wish we could turn the clock back on brexit. such a bad move for a lot of reasons.

[@TheKnightStrider]

Many say the same 🤔