[contenttypegeek]

I'm currently in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for a longer period. I have moved here because LPdGC was dubbed as a digital nomad heaven, said to be the 'Chiang Mai of Europe' etc. It has an incredible amount of Co-working spaces relative to it's size etc. so one would think it's a perfect place for things you are describing above.

tl;dr: it's not.

Snippet from an email conversation with a local guy (author of GrapheneDB):

"Nomads apart, this is a small city, and while there are some active developer meetups, it's hard to get enough momentum, people willing to do talks, etc. I did run a Rails/Ruby meetup years ago, but it ended up being mostly people from our team + some curious guys. Eventually, I ended up not wanting to push it any further and focusing more on the business side of things."

So even though a lot of parameters are OK, the size of the city (400k in this case) seems to be enough to hamper things...