[Personal experience] There and back: how the designer went to work in Madrid and why he returned to Moscow

In our blog, we wrote a lot about how developers and designers move to work in various countries and cities from Amsterdam to Sydney. But we have never published the story of a specialist who successfully worked in Europe, but then decided to come back.

This is exactly what Pavel Karpov ( paul86 ) did , who now works as the head of the design group at Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and Tarantool. We give him the floor!

Hello everyone, my name is Pasha, I am a designer and today I will tell you about why I decided to move to work in Spain, how life is in Madrid, what are the features of the working culture in the country, how much does an apartment, a car, and medicine cost. And why did he decide to return to Russia, of course. Go!

Note : the post is long, with a lot of photos, keep that in mind.

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