I Sold Everything and Moved To Portugal 

oh i’m trying to visit next year!!!

Welcome! Where do you live? I am an American living near Lourinha.

@@robertwinkel9209 We live in Peniche, just around the corner from you.

@@EricDavis01 would you like to meet up for lunch sometime?

@@EricDavis01 i work in praia del rey, very close!

Let me know if you’d like to meet up @Eric Davis. I’m from California also.

are foreigners still "welcome" due to the housing crisis?

Portugal is awesome if you are not born here, trust me.

Where are you from?

@@JoaoOliveira-rk8gv Tirando a falta de emprego (que é um problema por quase toda a Europa), o que é que é assim tão mau aqui?!

@@vervideosgiros1156 Não há falta de emprego. O problema são os empregos de merda que há com salários miseráveis e horas de escravo. Além disso o nosso querido governo promove esta gentalha dos nómadas digitais com vistos (nhr) em que chegam a pagar metade dos impostos dos residentes. Posso dizer-te que nós, os jovens portugueses, estamos fartos de sermos levados a emigrar em busca de um futuro digno enquanto temos o país perfeito onde nascemos para ser disfrutado por gente rica da Europa e da América.

@@JoaoOliveira-rk8gv Hoje em dia qualquer um pode ser nómada digital. Não são eles que são "gentalha"; as leis de bosta que temos é que permitem a especulação imobiliária! O problema não é "deste" governo, visto já haver especulação imobiliária desde muito antes.

115 was replaced by 112 (european emergency #). Bem vinda de volta.

@@antoniof9756 Obrigada! Bom estar de regresso, de uma x para sempre. 🤗❤️🇵🇹❤️

Vamos Portugal 🇵🇹

Portugal sempre melhor. Sou Timor-Leste🇹🇱🇵🇹

@@Ronalzio Saudações calorosas a Timor 🇹🇱 Leste. Grande abraço de 🇵🇹 🤗.

Dj Khaled sayssss

Credo...

Wow ,massively condescending calling a country of "terrinha",..This is why some Brazilians have a hard time in Portugal. Maybe examine and reflect about how you present your thoughts out to a culture different from yours.

@@SilVia-hs2kb que merda você está falando? É gíria caralho, terrinha é modo carinhoso de dizer meu deus..

@@SilVia-hs2kb terrinha é usado no Brasil como um apelido, não tem nenhum conotação pejorativa

Thanks Louis! Appreciate the support

@@daveinportugal I like your attitude Dave at least your traveling sad to say the United States has become a problem to live in if this country too expensive everything I have been thinking 🤔 about leaving the states.I am Puerto Rican myself.

@@daveinportugal thanks for your information if possible collaborate with other Americans you tubers that live in Portugal

Thank you Linda 🙏🏻

Eu iria. Foste?

@@leonore3349 não :)

Îe Thiago: I feel compelled to advise you not to relocate to the Bay Area unless the job pays enormous, staggering, amounts of money. The cost of rent is so high, I’m at a loss for words on how to describe it. Also, the problem of enormous amounts of people living without homes (people who need help) is so high that the city of San Francisco is having problems just being a city. Eu sou de os Estados Unidos e eu amo meu país, mas estou pensando sobre mudando pro Brasil ou Portugal… (tô ainda aprendendo o idioma, mas adoro aprendendo, e sua língua tem uma qualidade beleza e musical pra mim) 🙌

@@miahconnell23 that was one of the reasons for me to stay in Lisbon. I've lived abroad already and despite the fact the wages were great, they weren't what I wanted to keep my quality of living. Would have loved to try the US for a while (never more than 3y) but it was not worth it this time. Força amigo, aprender a falar várias línguas é sempre uma coisa boa, mais que não seja para poderes experienciar a nossa linda cultura mais a fundo. Boa sorte!

Would love to join your sketching group……. How can I join?

@@robertwinkel9209 live in Setubal

maybe to foreigners it looks like paradise, but to portuguese people it's slowly becoming a living hell, foreigners come here with money and drive the prices up, in Porto most of the landlords are turning to tourism and those who dont are asking absurd prices to rent the shittiest apartments and on top of that the government is giving benefits to digital nomads to come and live here but paying taxes in some other country while the average portuguese can barely afford a bedroom in a big city, honestly i just wish people like digital nomads and expats who are here looking for their paradise would just go the fuck home

@@rir79 English but have many people from all over the world and local people. Setubal is where the group meets.

how did you transport your belongings...car...etc

😂😂😂

Hey thanks Joel! Have a great move to an amazing city. You never know, Portugal is small country and that just might happen 😎👍

Hi Virginia. I am thinking of moving to Portugal from South Africa. Would love to connect and hear yr opinion of Portugal.

@@janetmcgrady380 No problem 🙂. Please contact me privately through Facebook or LinkedIn. Greetings V

Call real estate agents

I would buy something in a larger city, for sure. Rural Portugal can be tough and isolating.

Try to do some investigative work about the economy there because I think things have changed since the USA closed or downsized its base [example: I wanted to teach at the international school there, but it doesn’t exist anymore]. Money / income (and student loans)… money is the only reason I haven’t relocated to Portugal already 🙏

@@miahconnell23 I’m going to vacation there next summer.

Also if I decide to move there it will be to Sao Miguel.

Yo! Thanks for reaching out Jason. Definitely hit me up when you make it out here. 🤙🏻

just be aware you're coming in at peak winter

@@skurinski were getting 12” of snow here tomorrow. I’m pretty sure Portugal doesn’t get as cold as the Sierra mountains. Today’s temperature is 27 Fahrenheit.

Thank you Ghazali! 🙏🏻

Probably former colonies. There, he's just alienated the entire PALOP community 🤦‍♀

A madeira tem 3 ilhas e 2 ilheus mas mesmo assim o total não dá 23

LOLOL... aside from all that Portugal is still tops in many categories.. but seriously Tiago is the rent going up your only complaint about outsiders wanting to make Portugal their home ??..

@@nelsonsoares2975 I know thats not the only problem, but certainly its one of them

@@tiagojusto2708 Yes I agree & if minimum wage was a bit higher it would be easier for locals especially young ones to live with , I hope all the money pouring into Portugal these days from tourism , companies - businesses & just from people moving there in general spills out into paying higher wages , Portuguese are good respectful honest workers , they deserve to be payed accordingly , so many have had to leave their families, homes & country to get payed better because of this minimum wage problem, its a big shame , ... Take Care Tiago :)

@@nelsonsoares2975 Sadly i think it will happen the same to me. As some young people come to Portugal to live a cheap and wonderfull life, many young portuguese have to leave theyre home country just because they cant even afford a one room house. Its getting really hard.

@@tiagojusto2708 Yeah I understand, its not the prices as much as the income being payed , Portugal on average is one of the cheapest in Europe to live but without enough money being paid makes no difference at the end. hopefully Tiago you don't have to leave like me & my family did many years ago , so yes this has been an old problem not just now .

Thank you!

Hi, internet is good everywhere, Ericeira is the obvious place acording to what you ask, but for me is a tourist trap. The country is quite small, you will be almost everytime in an hour reach of a major city. In my opinion, the best places to live are Torres Vedras, Caldas da rainha, Peniche and on a budget Lourinhã. All have great surfing communities, and are still empty most of the time. Stay as a tourist the max you can, burocracy is a nightmare.

Ericeira hands down (big surf vibe, beautiful village, restaurants, lots of ex-pats), Praia do Baleal - Peniche (surf vibe, lots of ex-pats), Praia de Santa Cruz - Torres Vedras (some of the most beautiful beaches ever, lovely village, more local but with surf schools), Praia da Areia Branca - Lourinhã (it's in between other, you have to go to). You can't go wrong.

Go to Greece. It's amazing there.

@@mariannasoares2388 kind of funny the way you think 🤔 Do u know the more people come and live in Portugal the better for the economy, we bring money and more jobs, some would buy properties, or start business all these are beneficial for you, if you think the opposite pls tell.

@@caesyanan4405 Pray tell: what jobs are these people creating? The jobs you are "creating" are menial jobs in the tourism industry. The good jobs that were created by foreign companies (like the Swedish Match) were back in the 60s and 70s, before the Socialist revolution and after the Socialist took hold of the country, those companies left and never looked back. Now we are left with the kind of people like this guy, who does not even know that most of the "islands" he is referring to, are not even Portugal any more. All he knows is he likes the food here 🙄. You are just contributing to prices skyrocketing and making it impossible for Portuguese youth to own their own houses, plus you are profiting from our public services (hospitals, roads, etc) without any real contribution. How many of you pay the taxes Portuguese people are burdened with? I could go on for hours but I do not want to bore you.

Thank you R@bia 🙏🏻

Numa aldeia, vá lá.

Thanks Bobby! Appreciate it. Enjoy your journey to Portugal

Thanks T. Yes it is rural in central Portugal just above Lisbon

You have ancestry from those places*. But it's irrelevant because no one here nor anywhere else in Europe cares about what ancestry you have. Just a word of advice

Exactly

It's a disgusting discrimination from the Portuguese State against... its own people. I do hope that time frame will be soon reduced and eventually the measure dropped altogether.

@@Black_Fish99 I don’t live in Portugal but I definitely understand the resentment :(

Thank you 🙏🏻Near Lisbon!

@@daveinportugal Attention, anything further then 25km from the city center is not considered near! As a small country our near is much "shorter" then US near! Going to Porto (300 km) is very far!

They create businesses for other expats and tourists, which the locals generally can't afford. So it does work out.