Madeira

Madeira has no security at this time. There are more and more delinquents and homeless people on the streets and the cost of living for Madeirans has increased very aggressively and the quality of service for tourists has ceased to exist. All this local hosting and digital nomads is just a phase. In Madeira, it will cease to be fashionable and soon nomads and tourists will stop coming here in such a massive way, as they will realize that the quality of services is increasingly degrading, prices are higher and the local population is dissatisfied. There's no going back. This is just a phase. There are other places in the world much better than this land closed with a golden key just for a few lords of this land.

Funchal is not safe anymore. There is an increasing number of homeless people and drug addicts. At night, there are people who fall asleep on the lawns; syringes proliferate throughout the area; the police sometimes act but can not solve the problem.

Madeira is a huge tourist trap. Ugly cement roads ruining the nature, meals for the same price as central London, full of tourists... It is also extremely lacking in tech resources. Things that should be as simple as buying a headphone set becomes an impossible task because you have only one franchising of a tech store which gets 1/10 of the supplies comparing to continental Europe. Deliveries come by BOAT so it takes 10+ days for online shopping deliveries. And this is when they aren't lost by the post companies. Do not recommend.

Similarly to Lisbon, Madeira is getting very expensive, it is no longer possible to find a T1 rental for €500 or €600 per month and the cost of living is getting pretty high !! Security is also becoming an issue there, with an increasing number of homeless drug addicts on the streets.

Madeira is an amazing place to work and to live. Is a paradise for people who love calm and peace. The nature is stunning, the forest is world heritage by UNESCO, the climate is amazing all year around and the locals are very friendly. If you are thinking in Madeira pleaee be sure you respect local traditions and rules they don't like the opposite. Is an amazing place for outdoor activities like hiking, Canyoning, surf and much more. I use to go with Madeira Adventure Kingdom and they are really friendly and professionals. The internet access is overall good around the island. The food is amazing and spicy!! Highly recommended!

A cool place. If you live in Funchal, it's quite calm and yet with a couple of coworking spaces. Then you can travel on the weekends with a car. I'd definitely recommend this place for a month or two.

A pleasant touristy island which is great for hiking and just traveling around on a car.
Funchal isn't a modern city but it's walkable and liveable: there are coworking spaces, decent internet and occasionally you can even find filter coffee.

If you are into fitness, don't forget to join Madeira Fitness Friends group! Best training program and friendly community ever on this island!

Beautiful island with extremely nice hikes and good weather. Spent 3 months there just after they set up the Digital Nomad enclave in Ponta do Sol (beginning of 2021), a neat little "cove village" in the south with its own microclimate that makes it always sunny and good weather. When I was there the amount of digital nomads working on any given day in the freely accessible coworking space exploded from 30 to about 100, which shows the success of the government run program to attract digital nomads there.
The community they built there was a succes, with multiple events happening everyday throughout the week, all within walking distance from ponta do sol, although a car is needed to explore other parts of the island.
In general everything on Madeira is well organised and available, although the island is small and may not offer many of the amenities and luxuries that a big city does.

Funchal is a city in Madeira, Portugal. The capital of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, the city is located on the northwest coast of the island, about 10 km (6.2 mi) northwest of the island capital of Funchal. It has a population of 101,208, making it the 2nd largest city in the country and the main Portuguese port on the Atlantic Ocean.