10 reasons to choose Galicia to live


  1. Galicia and Spain have one of the BEST PUBLIC HEALTHCARE systems in the world.

  2. Galicia has a VERY LOW CRIME RATE. You always feel safe wherever you go, specially in rural areas.

  3. Galicia has an exceptional PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM. In rural areas schools are not overcrowded, with sometimes less than 12 students per teacher. Many city councils are willing to help families with children if they move to their area.

  4. Galicia has a VERY HIGH AIR QUALITY. There isn't a lot of industryor huge urban areas, therefore pollution is quite low.

  5. Galicia is packed with NATURE EVERYWHERE. Anywhere you go you'll be surrounded by fairy tale walkways and forests, thousands of rivers and creeks, and gorgeous flora and fauna. You'll find mountains up to 2000m high, including a ski station that is perfect for amateurs, great fishing and hunting spots, lakes to practice watersports, and almost 2000km of coast with tons of amazing beaches.

  6. In Galicia you can ENJOY THE 4 SEASONS of the year. You can see the differences among each season, enjoying all the changes that they produce. Winters are mildly cold, rarely below 0C. Springs are both sunny and rainy, with an explosion of colors. Summers are properly hot and sunny during the day, but fresh enough in the night so you can have a good sleep without A/C. And Falls are a gorgeous combination of colors, everywhere you look you'll be blown away!

  7. TOP QUALITY FOOD CULTURE. Food and wine are an art in Galicia. You'll find numerous local types of grapes that are used to produce stunning wines. The food is an amazing mix between Spanish and Portuguese cuisines, two of the best cuisines worldwide. Galicians love food and wine so much, that you'll find all year long hundreds of festivals with food or wine as their main theme.

  8. WINE CULTURE. Galicia in general and Ourense in particular are renowned by the quantity and quality of their wine appellations. One of them (Ribeiro) is the oldest of Spain, and produces world renowned wines with a growing reputation every year.

  9. GALICIANS. Because Galicians are simply lovely people! kind, hard working and loyal, be kind to them and they'll treat you like one of their own. You'll love their sense of humor, very sarcastic and quite similar to the British one. Everyone speaks both Galician (similar to Portuguese) and Spanish, so it's easy to get by.

  10. The only missing piece of the puzzle is YOU. If you'd like to move to a place where you can deeply connect with nature, enjoy a high quality lifestyle, and contribute to recover rural areas that have lost a good chunk of population in the last decades; we'll be waiting for you! You won't regret it!