58 channels, accounts, podcasts, blogs and communities run by people who actually live in Spain, filmed in their kitchens, their pueblos and their local bar. We went through YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and the podcast charts so you don't have to. Every link goes straight to the creator, and the videos play right here.
Curated 16 September 2026Four creators who speak to people planning a serious move rather than a summer holiday. Between them they cover the paperwork, the regions, retired life on a real budget and the weekly news that affects foreigners.
Latest: Living in Oviedo and Building Community (Full Interview) · 10 Sep 2026Moving to Spain, choosing a region, scouting trips, driving, food and culture. Recent interviews cover life in Oviedo and the Costa del Sol. Sells a paid Move to Spain course and runs a referral network of advisers.
Open channel on YouTube
Latest: Spain Is STILL Cheap? Locals and Expats Have Their Say · 13 Sep 2026Visas, residency, tax, healthcare, driving, property and bureaucracy for Brits, Americans and other English speakers. A weekly video plus a Monday live Q&A with guest experts.
Open channel on YouTube
Latest: Cheap Spain Trapped Us: 3 Mistakes We Didn't See Coming · 9 Sep 2026Retired life in Spain: money, eating out, the mistakes he did not see coming, viewer Q&As. No hype, no doom and no financial preaching, which is his own rule. The closest match on this page for readers over 60.
Open channel on YouTube
Latest: Is Spain about to STOP foreigners buying houses? · 14 Sep 2026Spain news for foreigners, cost of living, regional reviews of places like Asturias and Lugo, interviews with residents. Posts most days. The tone is often critical, which is useful.
Open channel on YouTubeWhere the serious relocation content lives. Long videos, real flats, real supermarket receipts. Each card shows the channel's latest upload and plays it here; subscriber counts are approximate, read from Social Blade on 16 September 2026.
Latest: Living in Oviedo and Building Community (Full Interview) · 10 Sep 2026James Blick, a New Zealander who has lived in Madrid since 2012 with his Spanish wife Yoly
Moving to Spain, choosing a region, scouting trips, driving, food and culture. Recent interviews cover life in Oviedo and the Costa del Sol. Sells a paid Move to Spain course and runs a referral network of advisers.
Latest: Is Spain about to STOP foreigners buying houses? · 14 Sep 2026Stuart, who has lived in Spain for more than 25 years; he does not say where
Spain news for foreigners, cost of living, regional reviews of places like Asturias and Lugo, interviews with residents. Posts most days. The tone is often critical, which is useful.
Latest: Spain Is STILL Cheap? Locals and Expats Have Their Say · 13 Sep 2026Run by Skatz, based in Málaga province
Visas, residency, tax, healthcare, driving, property and bureaucracy for Brits, Americans and other English speakers. A weekly video plus a Monday live Q&A with guest experts.
Latest: Cheap Spain Trapped Us: 3 Mistakes We Didn't See Coming · 9 Sep 2026Duncan, a 67-year-old Scot living in southern Spain
Retired life in Spain: money, eating out, the mistakes he did not see coming, viewer Q&As. No hype, no doom and no financial preaching, which is his own rule. The closest match on this page for readers over 60.
Latest: Spanish Apartment Horror Story: We Had to Move Again · 11 Sep 2026Shawn Forno and Lainey Silver, Americans who moved to Spain full-time in 2023 on a non-lucrative visa
The NLV move, choosing where to live (they chose Galicia), renting and its horror stories, the Camino routes and city guides for the north.
Latest: Why Are Some British Expats No Longer Happy Living in Spain? · 9 Sep 2026A married couple who retired to Camposol in the Murcia region nearly ten years ago
Retirement life on a Murcia urbanisation, the non-lucrative visa, the hidden costs after ten years, why some British expats go home. Posts about once a month.
Latest: La Manga Club: 5 stars in every category? · 9 Sep 2026An expat living in Mazarrón on the Costa Cálida, Murcia
Daily life in Mazarrón and Camposol, the golf resorts of the Mar Menor, buying property, beaches and food. Mostly walk-throughs, little paperwork.
Latest: They had been Coming to Spain for 20+ Years, But We'd Never Done This · 10 Sep 2026A British couple based in the Torrevieja area of the Costa Blanca
Torrevieja guides, day trips, restaurants, festivals and lifestyle tips. They travel outside Spain too, so not every upload is Spanish.
Latest: They Left Corporate America to Start Over in Spain · 10 Sep 2026An American family of four who left corporate jobs and moved to Valencia in 2025
The honest side of moving: pros and cons of Valencia, a year of Spanish school, starting over. Family angle rather than retiree, but the practical content travels well.
Latest: Why Spaniards Answer THIS Question So Differently · 4 Jul 2026An American who started MadridMan.com in 1996 and has lived in Madrid since 2005
Spanish customs and habits explained by an older American who has lived them: how Spaniards answer questions, why they never really leave their pueblo, what Spain changed in him. Uploads in bursts; the last was July 2026.
Latest: Dragon fruit in Spain · 14 Sep 2026David Wright, a British expat with more than 23 years in Almería
Visas, residency, buying and building, work, tax and healthcare, plus a lot of everyday Almería life. Small audience, 700-plus videos. Runs a paid Patreon and says some videos are paid promotions.
Latest: Driving the N-340 above Almuñécar · 16 Sep 2026The channel of Upsticks, a residency consultancy founded by Chris Goodacre
Non-lucrative visa and residency questions taken from client cases, plus drives along the Costa Tropical and Costa del Sol. A consultancy channel: it sells the application service it explains.
Latest: Spain Airports Are Skipping Your Entry Stamp · 15 Sep 2026The channel of spainguru.es, an immigration information hub run by Bruno Bianchi
Visas, citizenship, entry stamps, tax and banking, with interviews of Americans who retired early to Spain. It refers viewers to paid lawyers, gestores and insurers, so treat the recommendations as adverts.
Latest: Benalmádena Pueblo Evening: Most Interesting Places to Visit · 31 Aug 2026An anonymous channel filming the Costa del Sol
Walking tours of Benalmádena, Málaga and the coast towns, ferias and evening streets in 4K. Good for seeing a place before you visit; there is no paperwork advice.
Latest: Hot September Days in Playa del Inglés, 2026 · 15 Sep 2026Creators based in the south of Gran Canaria, around Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés
Daily weather, live streams and street footage from the south of the island, several uploads a day. Useful for checking what a September or January actually looks like there.
Latest: Is October the Best Month to Visit Barcelona? · 11 Sep 2026Patrick Reyes, a Barcelona tour guide and trip planner
Barcelona neighbourhoods, when to visit, food, day trips and the mistakes tourists make. Written for visitors, but the best English-language walk-through of the city's districts.
Latest: Dreaming of Galicia · 12 Sep 2026The official channel of Spain's national tourism board
Destination films: Galicia's coast, the black villages of Guadalajara, food and festivals. Promotional, and beautifully shot. Nothing on visas or cost.
Latest: Spanish Helmet Garlic Potatoes: the famous Cascos de Patata · 14 Sep 2026Albert Bevia, cooking Spanish food at home
Quick Spanish home cooking, several recipes a week. Food only, but the best way to learn what a Spanish kitchen actually produces on a Tuesday.
For the car, the dog walk and the long flight over. Episode counts are from Apple Podcasts, September 2026.
Catherine, from Ireland, and Paul, from England, both more than 20 years in Spain and based in Murcia
Visas, paperwork, emergencies and healthcare, renovating property, setting up a business, everyday life. Practical and plain-spoken; they produce it themselves.
John Metson, a former London radio producer who swapped Essex for a flat in an Andalusian village about a decade ago
British retiree-age life in Spain: fitting in versus living in a Little Britain, property, plumbing and bureaucracy, researching a move, local stories. Marked explicit on Apple.
Tania, who moved from Northern Virginia to Valencia in 2020, and Gaetano, who moved from Los Angeles in 2023
The American experience of moving to Spain: what to do before the move, paperwork, schools, adjusting slowly, everyday life in Valencia. Rated 4.7 on Apple.
Daniel Welsch, an American writer in Spain for many years, now in Barcelona; he also writes The Chorizo Chronicles
Life in Spain today: politics, culture, language, history, food and the health system. Good for understanding the country rather than the visa steps. Rated 4.5 on Apple.
Marti Buckley, an American cookbook author who has lived in the Basque Country since 2010
Short explainers on Spanish customs, rituals, food and regions: sobremesa, bote, Catalonia. Background culture for people planning a move, not paperwork. Rated 5.0 on Apple from 45 ratings.
John Towell, Director of Legal at Just Law Solicitors, a firm serving people moving to Spain
A news recap, listener questions and a guest each week: retiring to Spain, driving, common mistakes, relocation stories from the Costa del Sol. A law firm's podcast; it promotes the firm's services.
Vanessa Rosenblum, founder of Solena Global Living, which refers international buyers to English-speaking property agents
Area-by-area episodes on buying and living in Spain: San Sebastián, Granada, the Costa del Sol, Madrid, Dénia. Cost of living, renovation and the buying process. A property referral business.
Slower, deeper and searchable. These are the sites people end up on at 11pm with a notebook open. Several are run by relocation firms, law firms or property businesses; we say so on the card.
Mark Stucklin, a British property journalist in Spain who wrote the Sunday Times Spanish Property Doctor column
Property market news and data, buying and owning guides, mortgages, property tax, rental rules and housing policy, with regional reports. Independent of estate agents; sells paid market reports.
Ian Mount, a former Financial Times and New York Times journalist, and Adrian Bono, both in Madrid
Spanish politics, the economy and housing explained in plain English, weekly. Includes guides to the non-lucrative and digital nomad visas and tax. Free and paid tiers.
Alison and Alastair Johnson, Australians who moved from Sydney to Barcelona in 2015 and now run a relocation company
Detailed, frequently updated guides on the NLV, digital nomad visa, retiring in Spain, the Beckham law and tax, health insurance and where to live. Reviewed by an immigration lawyer. A relocation company: it sells the services the guides describe.
Mark Eastwood, a British writer based in Jávea on the northern Costa Blanca, running the site since 2004
Moving and retiring to Spain, best places to retire, costa and island area guides, property, insurance. An affiliate site: it refers readers to a financial adviser and insurance comparisons.
A regional guide site running since 1996, with a living section since 2014
Bureaucracy and law, the public health system, finance and insurance, long-term rentals and property, pets, utilities, motoring and translators, all for Andalusia. Advertising-funded.
Bruno Bianchi, who has run the site and its Facebook groups since the early 2010s
Visas for Americans, the moving-to-Spain checklist, tax and city comparisons, built from questions asked in its groups. A referral marketplace: it sends readers to lawyers, gestores, insurers and movers.
The newsroom of idealista, Spain's biggest property portal
Property market news, buying and renting advice, visa overviews and a moving-to-Spain checklist. It is a property portal, so the coverage favours the market it lists.
Where you ask the question the guides did not answer. Forum and subreddit sizes were read from the sites in September 2026; Facebook does not publish group sizes to outsiders, so those figures carry a year and a source.
A volunteer-moderated subreddit, in English and Spanish, for people visiting or moving to Spain
Visa routes, residency paperwork, choosing a city, cost of living and first-hand move reports, answered by a mix of Spaniards and expats. Open to join. Check anything legal with a professional.
Spainguru's main group; the URL still carries its old name, American Expats in Spain
Visa and residency questions, consulate and BLS appointment reports, tax worries and daily life, mostly from Americans. Actively moderated, and it exists partly to bring business to Spainguru's referral partners. Request to join.
A Facebook group for the non-lucrative visa only, the usual route for retirees, listed among Spainguru's groups
NLV document checklists, income thresholds, health insurance that meets the rules, consulate timelines and renewals. Request to join.
The Spain section of BritishExpats.com, a long-running forum mainly for UK nationals, owned by Internet Brands
Post-Brexit residency and TIE renewals, EES and ETIAS rules, healthcare cover, property problems, and honest threads about whether to move or go home. Free to read; register to post.
One of the oldest English-language Spain forums, running since 2004, used mostly by British owners and buyers
Buying property, NIE numbers, mortgages, community-of-owners disputes, property taxes, renting out, healthcare and retiring. Activity has slowed, but the property archive is deep.
An independent forum for expats, residents and holidaymakers in Alicante province
Choosing where to live on the Costa Blanca, property, cars and driving, residency and local recommendations. Free registration.
The largest general English-language expat group for Valencia city
Flat hunting, empadronamiento and other paperwork, doctors, schools and local events. Request to join. The size figure comes from a relocation site, not from Facebook.
A global expat network with local communities in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Málaga, Seville and the Canaries
Monthly in-person events, activity groups and city forums. Better once you have arrived than while you are planning. Membership by approval; many events need the paid tier.
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Check the routeThis page is curated, not paid for. If you make honest content about living in Spain and think you belong here, tell us. We look at every submission and add the ones our readers will thank us for. Listed creators can ask us any time how many readers we have sent them.
We searched YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Apple Podcasts and the main expat directories for English-language creators covering moving to, living in, retiring in and travelling around Spain, then kept the ones with a real audience and a track record of still posting. We favoured people who live in Spain over people who visited once, and content aimed at adults planning a permanent move over backpacker and digital-nomad content.
Audience figures: YouTube and TikTok counts were read from Social Blade and are approximate; Instagram follower counts were read directly from each profile; podcast episode counts from Apple Podcasts; all on 16 September 2026. Facebook does not publish group sizes to outsiders, so those figures carry their source and year. We re-check every figure quarterly.
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We have no commercial relationship with any creator on this page. Nobody paid to be listed. Several are attached to a relocation firm, law firm, property business or publisher (Upsticks, SpainGuru, Moving to Spain, Move to Spain: The Podcast, Solena Global Living, Spain Made Simple, idealista, Meg James); we say so on their cards.
Instagram and TikTok
Short, daily and visual. The expat accounts show the weekly shop and the paperwork queue; the tourism boards show why you started thinking about Spain in the first place. Instagram follower counts were read from each profile on 16 September 2026; TikTok counts are approximate, from Social Blade on the same day.
James Blick | Spain Revealed
James Blick, New Zealander, in Madrid since 2011; the Instagram side of Spain Revealed
Moving to Spain, the cost and practicalities of relocating, buying and renting, regional comparisons, food. One of the few large accounts made directly for people planning a move. Sells paid courses and co-founded Devour Tours.
Senses of Spain
Amy Macpherson, a New Zealander in Spain since 2020, two years in Madrid and in Málaga since 2022
Towns, day trips, patios, architecture and food with a strong Andalusia focus. Some trips are press invitations, which she discloses.
Morgan in Spain
An American living near Madrid with her Spanish husband, posting about Spain since 2021
Culture differences, daily routines, siesta and language as short comic reels. Younger than our readers and runs sponsored posts, but the observations are accurate.
Meg James & Family | Americans in Spain
An American family of four living in Madrid; Meg James coaches families moving to Spain
Family life in Madrid, the move itself, schools and culture shock. Sells paid move-to-Spain coaching calls and lists referral partners, including a visa firm and estate agents.
Geo in Spain
Georgia, from the north of England, living in Nerja on the Costa del Sol for about five years
Daily life on the Costa del Sol, buying a house with her Spanish partner, mortgages and paperwork, UK comparisons. A full-time creator; co-runs a holiday rental business.
Piccavey
Molly Sears-Piccavey, British, in Spain since 1998 and in Granada for most of that time
Food, culture and travel in Granada and Andalusia from someone who has lived there for decades. Runs food tours in Granada and Seville.
Olive Press
The English-language newspaper for Andalusia and wider Spain
Expat news, property, residency rule changes and regional stories, several posts a day. Tabloid in tone; quick to report the rule changes that matter to foreigners.
Majorca Daily Bulletin
The English-language daily newspaper in Palma de Mallorca
Mallorca news, what's on, weather and island life for English speakers, posted daily.
Visit València
The official tourism body for the city of Valencia
Neighbourhoods, beaches, food, Las Fallas and city events. Promotional, but the best daily picture of the city many of our readers are shortlisting.
Turismo Costa Blanca
The tourism board for Alicante province
Coastal towns, inland villages, beaches and events along the Costa Blanca. Posts in Spanish and English.
Canary Islands (Hello Canary Islands)
The Canary Islands government tourism board
Beaches, hiking, food and events across all the islands, posted daily. Promotional.
In Green Spain
The joint tourism brand of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country
The coast, the Camino, food and countryside of the wet, green north that the sun-seekers overlook. Promotional.
Spain (Turespaña)
The official account of Spain's national tourism board
Cities, coast, countryside, food and festivals from every region. Promotional travel content; nothing on visas or cost.
Geo in Spain
Georgia, British, living in Nerja on the Costa del Sol
Expat life, advice for would-be movers, buying and renovating a house, UK comparisons. Her TikTok gets more of the practical advice than her Instagram.
Morgan in Spain
An American living near Madrid, on TikTok since 2021
Culture-shock humour, siesta, local customs and cinema in Madrid. Some sponsored posts.
visitSpain (Turespaña)
The national tourism board's TikTok, running since 2021
One short clip a day: places, food, Spanish expressions and travel ideas. Promotional.
Canary Islands (Hello Canary Islands)
The Canary Islands tourism board's TikTok
Short clips of island landscapes, beaches and activities, several a week.