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Re:The European startup ecosystem arrived by yalforreca on Thursday January 27, 2011 @07:37AM (#2147573)
Go to Portugal. Great weather with amazing beaches and country side, low cost of living and lot's of engineers that can speak fluent English. Also the government has subsidies for tech companies, specially in the IT sector. Spain is ok as well, but I find that people there have a hard time with English and like to party a bit too much. And the comments about London are true. It is very expensive to live here and the quality of life is appalling. Many people who start out in sexy industries ( games, web, etc... ) gravitate to finance because they can't afford to live an adult life here on the wages of those industries.
Re:The European startup ecosystem arrived by fun2have on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:31AM (#2147701)
Come and join us. Read our post about opening our R&D office in Portugal. http://blog.webnographer.com/2010/10/an-rd-office-in-lisbon/

Portugal salaries maybe lower but if you have not lived in Portugal for 10 years you can apply for non-habitual status which means you pay a flat rate of tax of just 20%!

Also you have the sun!

Re:The European startup ecosystem arrived by yalforreca on Thursday January 27, 2011 @10:11AM (#2148040)
I left Lisbon around 7 years ago and moved to Barcelona for games programming gig. Moved to London 3 years ago and life has become less flexible so moving back to Lisbon is just a wish for now. But I do think about it a lot. The quality of life is just great. Miss the Ocean. I know some great people there if you need some references.
Re:The European startup ecosystem arrived by fun2have on Thursday January 27, 2011 @11:17AM (#2148344)
As you have lived out of Portugal for more than 5 years you would probably qualify for the non habitual tax status, which means you would only pay 20% income tax if you moved back here. You would definitely get a standard of living boost.

http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/tax-law-tax-treaties-agreem...

The more contacts I have the better so yes please get in touch.

Re:The European startup ecosystem arrived by jcoen on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:06PM (#2149473)
Actually I've worked both in Portugal and Spain, and I find the latter better than the former in many aspects. Never had a problem with English and Spaniards never struck me as party animals, at least no more than elsewhere.