I would avoid the tourist infested green part of the map. People have been living in the red part and also over the border in Spain, which is similar, for hundreds of years. They live simply and meet their own needs, and don't follow the over-consumptive lifestyle of the west. Imagine. Clean water, clean air, no roads full of traffic noise and fumes, fresh locally-grown food, no unhealthy junk food, no bars and discos, no touristy boutiques and shopping malls full of everything no one really needs, no surfers, no loud 'music', no half-dressed rowdy drunken visitors, no litter on the streets, no tourists treating your villages as a playground...what could be better?
In my view, there's nothing "sad" about parts of a country being "empty": Given the TRULY SAD REALITY of the "New" "Normal", I'd rather live in "empty" places in which one can lead a nice, slow and meaningful LIFE in the company of like-minded human beings, away from the maddening global crowds of predators 🙃
A company bought a village for 5M euros and transformed it in a touristic resort. Now it's abandoned. Get a grip. Tourists want night life, restaurants, entertainment. And we don't want our villages transformed into theme parks.
I like that it was a Portuguese guy that bought that village and is renovating it for some agro-tourism. To him, I will say thank you Sir for saving an old historic Portuguese village. My grandparents lived in one of those old villages and I have the most wonderful memories of going there and loving their old stone little village, where the roads were also made of large stones, and every single experience I had of the country life. To me those stone homes always had a peculiar smell of yeast & flour raising for fresh bread everyday… something I discovered when I started making bread myself. Please Sir keep saving more old villages! These stone villages should all be saved and taken care. They are old, historic, they tell us a lot of the peasant way of living, a hard way of living yes, but also a good one near the beautiful and healthy nature. These villages need to be preserved for the future. And the Portuguese government should be the first one to engage on their saving and preservation for the country and for the Portuguese. Agro-tourism can help saving these wonderful historic villages for the future. One village should be a live museum showing the peasant way of living and their traditional rural craftsmanships. Teach the kids how bread, cheese, baskets, rag blankets, etc were once made. Old villages and peasant life in the old way should be preserve. Not just palaces & castles… Peasant Villages too!
I bought a house in portugal in a hamlet for the tranquility of the countryside. Planted dozens of fruit and olive trees. I wouldn't exchange it for City living.
Of course. Same all over rural Europe - if the telecommunications companies had the motivation to invest in these places it might be possible to repopulate them. And why not let refugees who know how to farm and be self-sufficient settle there? Could be a salvation for people who just want to escape war but are not interested in corporate life and digitalisation.
@@elledix3575 No, we have excellent internet - €45 unlimited mobile broadband that streams 1080 no problem. The issue is quality of life for the people who can work remote. If you can earn €2000 a month you can live well anywhere in Portugal - so why live in a schist house with few amenities and few neighbors?
I worked in Galicia, Spain in the mid-1990s, and would visit Porto, and parts of eastern and northern Portugal. Most of the country was very sparcely populated then also. It was scenic, but mostly empty. Many abandoned homes, farms, and small businesses scattered everywhere.
Brazilian protest song which says" turning with your back to the countryside will not make this country a good place to live, apparently also applies to its former motherland. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yx37B9l0hTY.htmlsi=Vvy1V4kj690KNNSi
THIS is what happens when the women start taking birth control, stop having babies in favor of education and careers. It's a form of SUICIDE! This is happening in Japan, China (albeit slowly) and other high-tech countries whose women value education and careers over old-fashioned family life.
The interior of Portugal is stunningly beautiful...we love it here, there are great schools, there is good public transport, loads of small village shops & mobile vans, everyone grows veg & shares. One thing is very true - we need more people! So, we live here & if you are reading this, maybe you are considering a move, so here is a brief take... There are hundreds of properties of all types for sale - you need to visit as not much is online & people really want to sell to people they appreciate! Note, there are planning easements in place dependent on how much land you have, whether in National Parks etc that are worth investigating. Not all of Portugal is hot! We are in Guarda region at 868 metres & it gets cold in winter!! The climate here is like the UK but with two months shorn off winter & added on as glorious summer...with fires a present danger. Castelo Branco, not far away, is searing hot by comparison with Guarda. Water must be your obsession...boreholes are expensive & you'll need more than one can provide. They are not reliable enough to be your only source. All the best from @HowardsPortugal
We recently purchased a small farm, fruit trees, olive, and a small vinyard in a small village in central portugal near A13 toll road. We just spent 75 days there and have our 4 bedroom 2 bath house completely set up and comfortable and have just returned to the US. The area is very inexpensive and one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen. The small farm villages local population is so welcoming and helpful. Any one considering a move should explore the real rural portugal and experience life at its best.
Hang in there - the AI revolution coming at us like a freight train is going to change EVERYTHING. People will be able to make good livings from their home computer from anywhere (including Antarctica). Anywhere you can get StarLink satellite connections. People need to move out of the cities which are rapidly becoming just too crowded. With Amazon deliveries being global, that opens up even the most rural area to commerce and living needs. While the AI will replace a LOT of people's jobs, it will open up opportunities galore to anyone paying a bit of attention.
@@sarahdeshay1394 Indeed. Totally agree. I live in Alentejo but used to own a place just off a junction of the A13. If you obsess about speaking English and things like that then inland Portugal won't be for you. But if you want to live in the country and get on with your neighbours (which means learning at least the minimum amount of Portuguese to be polite) than it's a really, really nice place to live. And not at all expensive. And certainly not subject to the price rises that have affected Lisbon. People are helpful and genuine. And it's a really safe place to live, too. Great for children.
What a beautiful way to live. There are a lot of people seeking this kind of peace and tranquility. Folks wanting to live life simply and living off the land sharing and enjoying a real community. I myself would love to live there
Portugal is not empty. By comparison, the US is a lot more empty. Portugal's population density is about 110 people per square kilometer, while population density of the US is about 36 people per square kilometer. Canada is even more empty at just 4 people per square kilometer.
South Africa is around 50 people per square kilometer. You wouldn't say so though as most live in dense cities. There are vast stretches of uninhabited land. Unfortunately due to toxi fertilizers and bad rural farming methods a lot of tribal land has become infertile and people don't have the patience or skill to rehabilitate the land.
I lived in Portugal in the south of Nazare from 1998 for several years with my family. What a great country, culture and people. You will always be in my heart. 😘
It seems that some countries like Spain, Italy and Portugal want to attract people to move and populate some of the rural areas that have been abandoned by the native residents, but how can expect attract buyers if they make almost impossible to renovate and let alone build a house , with all the bureaucracy and foolish regulations by the government.
I am sorry.. But these new residents does not do these countries any good.. They are rich = prices on everything goes up = the natives can no longer afford a decent life..
I was recently reading about an English family that bought a derelict house in village and renovated it. Then, for reasons I’m not sure about, the locals turned on them and they’ve decided to sell up and leave. Having been to Portugal I found this surprising, but ‘newcomers’ are not always welcome anywhere - even if they do good things
@@andersnielsen6044 What would you have them do? Give their kin up for blood sacrifice? EVERYBODY does good things for themselves. You can't even get jobs for your own natives and you hate on those that have worked their entire lives, payed taxes and decide to move somewhere quiet :D I can only sense envy/jealous/xenophobia coming from you. This is coming from an immigrant that made effort to learn the local language, works, pays taxes, etc., so I know what I sense from you ;)
From videos I've seen, Portugal's archaic and complex laws and the inefficient government bureaucracy are the biggest impediments to buying property and building homes there.
@@dianewassell7693 if it takes long time to understand how the local bureaucracy works, it means it's inefficient, slow and expensive, that's why nobody lives there. One can work everything out in half in hour in Estonia and everything can be done online.
Villages use to be self sufficient In every way... what happened? They didn't need a government..had their own meat, vegetables, oils, cheese, made their own candles and clothes.. beautiful sheep farms.. A Dr room with nurse and even a local dentist.. They all belonged to the same church..loved being part of a community.. IT use to be the perfect lifestyle!
@@rd264 that isn't poverty, dufus. poverty is lack of basics. It's a somewhat simpl e life, but being creative , social, educated and having a good life, lots of nature , and community, are happy things. You know nothing.
Rural exodus. Villages are self sufficient. But the city promises better life. It delievers better life. (Especially in places like here in Portugal), and so the young flock away from villages. The elderly remain. But they age, and soon once their time passes, there's no generation to take the mantle. Rural exodus has been the trend for the past 200 years in industrial societies.
You are now witnessing the end of the western power😊😊😊 so pay attention than you can see how once mighty countries like Egypt, Italy, Iran, (Persia) Greece choked in the same greed as the western countries have been doing for the last 50+ years! 😊😊😊😂😂😂
@@highlanderNC-mr8fe Indeed it was. At the time there were 5 great powers: England, France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. These 5 small countries went all over the world and built great empires.
I was in Portugal for 8 months from Algarve to Almeida. My relatives are from Rio, but our name is de Almeida. That's why I wanted to see this city. Portugal is a great country❤
A great country ?? That`s why the people leave ?? Highest emmigration rate in Europe. It takes more than pretty scenery to make a great country . You traveled there , you like the country --- but that doesn`t make a country great.
The problem in Portugal is the government and the inefficient civil service , which makes life a pain . Building costs like the rest of the EU have increased massively and its difficult to find a competent honest builder . Also outside cities , public transport has almost been stopped and shops are few and far between . Add to this all the Eu rules and regulations which do nothing but hike the prices of everything . Then there is the problem of travel to other parts of Portugal and the rest of the EU ,without a car ( and driving license) its very difficult and slow . We have taken the decision , we are selling up and leaving after nearly 20 years
99% of that is not related to EU at all. Portugal also was very poor before EU. You simply dont create jobs. Prices has not gone up because of EU but by living standards. You of course has to produce more and also to state - scgools, education, hospitals, roads, medicine, pension. You forget You get back. And I know the drill. 4 of my grandfathers siblings immigrated and after all got a life in USA and Argentina. Im from Denmark.
Portugal has been poor since their golden age, thats centuries ago. By the way, the rest of Europe is joining in on that. Rent, food and the rest is getting so expensive, prices go up. Wages do not. I am confident that if there are no changes then in 25 years the whole of europe will just be borderline poor. Being bled dry enough to keep going but greed is going so far that even in the richest european countries people can not sustain it. European and local laws do not help. Everything is made to prevent innovation and self sustainment.
The government there has been mismanaging things for untold decades. Now much of Europe is beginning to slide in the same way. It seems like a natural process, but, in reality, it is a direct consequence of elites who simply have accumulated much of the wealth and assets of a nation and simply live to ONLY enjoy a mindless hedonistic lifestyle not caring about the nation, people or its future. They are corrupt. The people are left decade after decade with less wealth and opportunities. The old stay behind and the young move to the cities or leave the nation. How to redress this before a nation is sucked dry by these elitist leeches?
True! A friend of mine is moving from Belgium to a small Italian town, just to slow down. The house costs around €18.000, with garage. There's a bakery, butcher and grocery store. It's like going 50 years back in time. I know where I will spend my next vacation 😅👍
@ms-jl6dl I heard from hearsay that Japan is inviting blacks to have children with Japanese to boost the population. I have not confirmed it, though.I was very surprised that a largely homogeneous society is now opening up to heterogeneity.
@ms-jl6dl Well, Japan is offering money to black men to have children with Japanese women to reverse population decline. The scheme might be for all immigrants though. Interesting timed.
@@ms-jl6dl Yea and who are allowing those Africans in? Why are European forces are in Africa ? Niger? Chad ? Huh ? Stop bring democracy to them and they will live with their countries. Why does France have tons of gold with 0 gold mines but Niger with hundreds of gold mines have less than a 10th of the gold reserves ? Huh ? hypocrite.
I visited Portugal so many times and the region i love most was the Trás-os-Montes region in the spanish border. One hell of a good cuisine and lovely people. Most of the old farmers houses are abandoned. Young people prefer the coastline around porto. They're never coming back and this is very sad. In spain we faces the same problems.
I doubt that you would get 20,000 EUR of annual revenue from running an airbnb in that tiny house. Tourists want to go to towns that have restaurants and cafes. These are beautiful places, but restoring them would require a LOT of labor time and investment in materials. Bringing in construction materials on narrow roads may be difficult and ultimately expensive.
Given a well described ad, people will come anywhere. Treehouses, Hobbit houses; anything really. Weird sells as well as the peace and quiet city people don't realize they never get.
It's not a house, those buildings were used as storage for agricultural equipment. He wouldn't be able to get a licence to inhabit that building and making it habitable would require expanding it at a sizeable investment, but importantly would also require approval from the council which more likely than not would be denied as that plot is what's considered rural land, not to be developed, hence why it's so cheap.
Mountainous, rocky, windswept, w little arable land & natural resources means it's always been tough to make a living off the land. No wonder the leading Portuguese conquistador of Brazil, Pedro Álvares Cabral, came from this region 500+ years ago.
You're making an impression of a region vs the whole country. You should really do more research about this country's resources over the centuries before making such a dumb claim. Portugal adventuring out into the sea had nothing to do with sparse natural resources.
@@trailoffiends Yes, I've gone thru books on this, and not just on Portugal. 1st hand source, not hearsay bullsh*t hundred of years later. Ex: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo's "The true story of the conquest of New Spain", "Annals of Tlatelolco", Crónica Mexicayotl by Fernando Tezozomoc etc.... Some 2nd hand sources & 3rd renditions: Nathaniel’s Nutmeg (Giles Milton), Taste of Conquest, Rise and Fall of Three Great Cities (Michael Krondl, 2008), The Hungry Empire, How Britain's quest for Food shaped the modern world (Lizzie Collingham), For All the Tea in China (Sarah Rose, 2011). I won't bother to list more. If u can make a decent living in your native area, you're beyond dumb to risk death, starvation, diseases for years on the open, uncharted seas for uncertain rewards. When Magellan's men came back, they aged 20 years; they were hardly recognizable. Don't bs me about the "discoverers & explorers" only doing it for the sake of geographical & scientific discovery. Blocked by the Italians, Turks, and Arabs from the Silk Road, heading due west to the seas was the only alternative. And it was the spice trade thru and thru for the most part (small part was religion). There's no shame in trying to make a living, however risky. Equally, there's no need to varnish it, buddy.
@@Azuria969 According to whom and what data? lol Portugal adventured out to seek (and take over) naval commercial routes and exotic trade items. Portugal never struggled with natural resources for self-sustainance, that's BS. If you think the whole country + islands are made out of mountainous and infertile land, then you're a big fat joke.
In Rural Portugal, there is so much empty land left wild. If people want to habitate and cultivate they need to be able to build a property to live in. Property development should be allowed based on need not ridiculous obsolete outdated rules. So many people want smaller parcels to live on, cultivate and enjoy.
I bought 3 hectares in Serra da Estrella national park in 2009 - old Quinta with 200 olive trees & 1000 grapevines. It took 2 years to get planning permission to build house & campsite. NP planners & local Camra super supportive. Spent 1 year attempting to get local businesses to start groundwork’s, quote for solar installation, etc. I gave up as it was just too difficult to get the works started… came back to UK to work for a bit & forest fires ripped through the valley. We had a lucky escape… delays changed our plans but also saved them from going up in smoke. Best 3 years, great people & such a beautiful country. No regrets. My advice - if you are thinking of doing something similar, take your budget & double it. Take your development timeline & treble it. Good luck 👍
I lived out in the Portuguese country-side last summer. The people are very very poor and it is not for everyone. Not sure what kind of tourists this might attract. Yes the views are beautiful...but they do not have a monopoly on beautiful views. It is also very hot in the mid-summer months. I just do not know how this would work unless you did this as a group effor to create a special community and then you still must deal with all the red tape that goes along with purchasing property and trying to tie into utilities, build a road, transport equipment/ materials...etc.
If it's anything like renovating in Italy, the hurdles are immense. Permitting costs are prohibitive due to all the architectural bureaucracy/approvals and concerns, civil fees of all kinds and the cost of just getting materials to the locations.
@@DoctorWonka There’s a guy who renovated a stone hovel up in the mountains somewhere in Europe and he couldn’t do it in the locales he wanted due to onerous, expensive and extremely slow moving and corrupt systems in Italy. Besides, the globalists want the plebs in tightly packed cities where they can be controlled, not living all over the countryside out of their control
My husband and I lived in Portugal for 3 years. Building costs have gone up in the last 3-4 years, and builders are almost impossible to find. We had neighbours who only visited in summer and a few times throughout the year and their builder had taken 18 months to complete a small A frame cabin (and was still not finished as of last year). We had a ruin to restore but the previous owners had done all the paperwork - there is a process involved but it is more difficult because of the language barrier. The work itself would have ended up costing us more than what we could afford (and taken a lot longer too). There is also the danger of fires to think about.
@@DoctorWonkaI don't know abt the paperwork for Portugal properties but for the Italy 1-euro houses, yes it's a lot of bureaucracy. It's not really "1 euro". 1 euro is probably the cost of the house but you have to pay many other fees like realtor's fees, taxes, land transfer fees, etc. That's just to transfer the property to you. Then when it's yours, you must renovate it within a certain period of time. At least that's what I remember from the docu that I watched re: Italian properties for sale.
Wish they had a program where they would buy back, their children who live like second-class citizens around the world, rather than opening their doors to those who bring no love but rather division. Just a thought.
@@gabrielbalbec883 The young want to move to cities for work and in many cases there is no choice as all the infrastructure is in the cities for businesses.
Portugal has such a strict inheritance law that when the children go live in other parts of Europe, the house cannot be sold until all the children are found and agree to the sale. It just takes one child to disagree or to be difficult to contact. This is added by young people moving to the cities or other parts of Europe.
Really ? I did not know about it. I thought the law should be who own the house the person whose name appear on title deed. Wow what a barrier to destroy people's lives.
Difficult terrain, lack of services, high taxes and bureaucracy, among highest in Europe, little to no support for the local development. When housing is more affordable for a foreigner than a local, you know something is wrong. Civilizations come and go, you know.
Travelling inland Portugal right now in my campervan. It's stunning and wild! It's pretty refreshing to be able to visit places where there are no other people around for miles, quite refreshing
Dude, check your data! Rio de Janeiro (state): 43.910 km² Portugal: 92.152 km² It's not a large country. But it's more than two times the size of the state Rio de Janeiro
Places that are empty of humans are beautiful. There are never wars there; few of the problems we cause, no pollution, unless it blows in. Ironically we all long for them in an increasingly crowded world!
Renovating using CGI. A village with no road or vehicular access. Land with no habitation licences, mains water, electricity or sewage. Sounds wonderful.
Don't forget brutally hot summers and no water. This video was taken in winter. Everything was green. Id bet things will change drastically when the summer comes. Not half as hospitable. Sadly.
I thought it was the case only of the post-East-Warsaw Pact states e.g., Poland, etc. I know the "mechanism" behind it. My personal experience: to live again under a new Cesar, UE-Parlament( a touris-cycle pilgrimidge confrontation with UE-guards on AD 2015, August 6 on the way to bl.F.Jagestatter tom in Austria from London,UK; the problem: my Cross@Tshirt with ex.3;14 in Hebrew@"Solidarity" was a ...propaganda@did not allow me to enter an Exhibition "On Freedom"! I keep a record of it in my file- I did not record it as I was not prepared for such...reaction but with dumb Satan's agents paid from any UE citizen's taxes one gets such action!; the correspondence t with UE-guars Chief @also GB (I'v tested it while for a while in UK) is ....stupidity (for legal@intellectual reasons)-I've got a confrontation with such people in Poland (University,the Church, then Massmedia, and I know how the legal system works.It is a BS/"shit"(Phil 3:8) and stupid citizens who tolerate it- I spent some time to change it! Vote (not dumb) citizens to. leave UE@become free again@then ...free people will arrive and make business again.
It's funny to see how people in Europe believe that in this very Europe there are empty and sparsely populated places. I live in the Far East of Russia. This is really a sparsely populated place from which the population is leaving. Some regions have lost half of their population over the past 20-30 years. I live in Primorsky Krai. It is 2 times the size of the whole of Portugal, but only 1.5 million people live here. Moreover, most of them are in Vladivostok and a couple of other large cities. For me, a 250 km trip to visit relatives is considered close. My grandfather's house is on the outskirts of the village. Behind it there is just forest for hundreds of kilometers. There are sections of the road where for 50-100 km the road is just forest, there are no villages, gas stations, nothing, just wild nature. Primorsky Krai is considered a fairly populated region. There is also, say, the Magadan region. It is 4 times larger than the Primorsky Territory. 8 times larger than Portugal. Now less than 150,000 people live there. There are a lot of empty small towns there. And in those cities that still have a significant part of the houses abandoned. You can buy a home for 0 money. Moreover, you can easily settle somewhere there and no one will care.
@@davidcollin1436 No, it’s not that cold in the Primorsky Territory. The climate is just harsh. One year there may be a drought, and another it rains all summer. In winter, it can be very warm one year - 5, for example, and maybe -30 Celsius on the coast another year. The climate in this region is not constant, it greatly depends on what will prevail. Warm air bringing snow and rain from the sea or cold and dry wind in winter from the north, which becomes hot and scorching in summer. For reference, Primorye is located in the subtropics. About the same latitude as France. And in Magadan, yes, it’s cold. Very cold. It’s not absolutely bloody cold like in Yakutia, it’s a little warmer due to the proximity of the sea.
@@rd264 OK. Summer begins at the end of May, beginning of June. It's getting warm. The weather is usually cloudy and foggy. There may be 1-2 sunny days per month. Temperature is about 15-25 Celsius. At the end of July, beginning of August the weather changes. It will be warm and sunny until mid-September. There is a nuance. There will be several typhoons in the summer. They could just be heavy rain and wind. Sometimes a typhoon washes something away somewhere. There was a road, and now there is a river. Also, the amount of precipitation may decrease sharply. And it won't rain for a month. And then the typhoon comes... In winter, a typhoon brings snow, ice, and warm weather. An anticyclone may come and it will be very cold and very windy. You can see what the consequences of a strong typhoon look like in winter. You need to google "ice rain Vladivostok" "Ледяной дождь Владивосток" The result. The weather is very changeable and fickle. Every year something new happens. And typhoons do not allow you to relax. Primorsky Krai is not the best place to live. Previously, this territory was considered as a place for exiles. During the Soviet Union, local residents were paid more, as they were considered to live in difficult conditions comparable to the far north.
As a Northern European, I think a lot of Portugese natives will return once they realize what life is really life up North. Sure, the wages are higher, but so is cost of living. And there's a lot more crime, increasing demographic and religious conflict, poverty, etc. Housing is unaffordable there too, which is part of why a lot of us moved to Portugal to begin with. The grass isn't always greener, I'm afraid. They'll be back.
Here in Canada 2.5hr is a short distance. I love Portugal after seeing so many videos on RU-vid. I hope it rebounds as I've seen quite a few channels who have bought cheap land and are making it home.
Yeah, it only takes about 7 hrs to drive north to south...Portugal has been compared to be about the size of the US state Indiana. Because of the mountains, I'm not sure how lng it would take to drive west to east...though if you are in the southern part of the country, Alentejo....quite flat, more of a 'high desert' area. Used to be lots of agriculture, cork, and olive trees. Unfortunately the previous Portuguese dictator, Antonio Salazar, planted eucalyptus trees (fast growers) but easy to burn as well. The eucalyptus trees release a toxin in the air when thy burn. Cork doesn't burn at all....people who have land should try to plant cork if they can. You could get a harvest every 9 years.
How hard to get an small farm in Portugal 🇵🇹 and plant vines and cork trees 🌳, do need permit to anything and everything when planting a tree or putting an post in or building an woodshed?
@@JS-jh4cy many small farms already have vines growing and fruit trees too. I think the cork needs the warmer temps of Alentejo and Algarve though. Haven't seen too many ppl mention cork trees in the north part of PT. PT has strict building codes, wanting to maintain the historical 'frame' of original house...so anything that changes the walls/windows, roof, etc. Unfortunately I have heard folks say that PT won't give habitation license if work isnt performed by certified builder...thus no DIY unless you are certified in PT. Seems to run contrary to everything that I've seen on YT...but it must be that they dont know the Portuguese language to read the rules...and when autotranslated...ppl arent getting the real story.
I love this type of video ... touring different countries and 'discovering' quaint villages ... as if one traveled back in time ... thanks to u and your team ...❤
Rural exodus. The industry is in the shore, jobs are in the shore. Young people go west to find work and make a life for themselves, the old people stay, and when everyone dies, the village turns into a ghost town.
My parent's birthplace is in nearby Galicia and Asturias, in Spain. Same sad story. When I visited the place, always on summer, I fantasize about living there. But I can't imagine passing a whole winter, far from everyone. There's a reason this paradise is getting empty.
I love that abandoned village w the 12 houses. It would be fun to have that, build it up like an old Roman village or something and have events there a few times a year and the rest of the time use it for artists and musicians.
25+ years ago housing was extremely cheap compared to more northern standards. Now you wonder why not more fugitives start developing their lives in rural peaceful portugal. (instead of trying in overcrowded cities elswhere) Yes I know they want modern lives with high wages but hapiness can be found in other ways too.
Thank you so much for this exploration. I spent a couple of years researching the country (even Madeira and the Azores), so it's great to see aspects I haven't learned about and your thoughts.
Fascinating, thanks. I've been reading the Richard Sharpe novels about the Napoleonic war and a few are set in the mountains of Portugal. Really helped me visualise them.
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE! I would LOVE to know when those houses were built. They look like they've been standing for CENTURIES, all the way back to the Middle Ages!
I went to Portugal last year in july, turist time, I loved the people, so simple, sweet, beautiful, I only want to return! is so special, beautiful, special!!!! Not so modern! Is sad that empty villages and also in other countries. No new generations, no children. Thanks for this interesting report!!! It would be wonderful if you organize a trip to Portugal with many of us in the world tbat want to go again!
As a hungarian I would love to get into revitalizing an old house in Portugal as a vacation home if there was a way to citizenship with that... but if I recall correctly you need to buy expensive property to have a shot at that... I think it was called golden visa or something. How nice would it be to renovate something old and abandoned with less money and use it in the family to spend nice vacations there.... great vid btw
I see cheaper almost ready to move into properties in some areas of Italy...Portugal has many empty delapidated properties that'll cost a small fortune to refurbish. Competent builders are also hard to find and I think that Portugal has become quite expensive now. You may find a cheap house, but it may not have a habitation licence or have an urban article that you can live in without getting permission from the local camera/council.
Houses built before 1951 don´t need habitacional license....the urban and rural articles its another matter you can´t buil or rebuild a habitable house in a rural article piece of land ,,,as the name said it´s only allowed to use it for agricultural purposes...of course to rebuild a ruin of a stone house will cost a lot of money if you want to be comfortable and up to date with modern life...besides legalization of the house in the municipality with a a proper archictetural project with all modern rules of construcion .there are good examples of that like Mr and Mrs Adventures Nearby Veggies The Newbies The Scotts etc...
Avoid places where you have to "ask permission" every time you want to do even the most mundane of things. If that's the starting point, I can guarantee it will only be getting worse.
Would be helpful if their immigration policies allowed for people to move there easier. As an Australian, I have to spend a fortune on property just to get a leg in.
Not really....d7 visa only requires passive income from retirement acct and proof of funds. D8 is remote worker visa. D7 requires a 12 month lease or a deed to a property. D8 visa you just have to show your proof of remote job and the amount needed for monthly living (they have a set amount). You don't have to have the lease for remote worker visa. It's easier to get with fewer requirements but the amount of monthly income you need to prove that you are earning is much higher than a D7.
I love Portugal so much, I lived there for a few months but never got to see as much of the country as I'd have liked. I just couldn't make a living there, otherwise I'd have stayed. Perhaps one day, when I don't need to, I'll return ❤️
I agree. I've been to Portugal and loved it. But with my work I doubt I'd make a living there. I wish I could. I'd move there immediately. Maybe if I win the lotto or wherever.
In France, Italy, Spain, many small villages are abandoned because the population was too small to maintain basic services. Italy especially has a a signed villages because earthquakes have wiped out or damaged villages, killing or injuring too many of the residents.
I now have a place I can plan on moving to when SHTF. I might check into some of these options now. I am a fan of Fatima, the apparitions of Mary in 1917. I would feel comfortable in that blessed country.
Had they kept the tax break for retirees, I would have happily retired there and rebuilt an old house. Well, not an option anymore… Maybe Portugal will one day resort to what some Italian villages are doing, selling houses for 1€ in order to attract people.
@@terywetherlow7970 For one Euro, or rather Franc in 1995, pre-Euro? If so, it’s usually done under the condition that the new owner renovate the castle. And then we are talking six figures easy…
@@MajorWolf72 I haven't seen or heard of Margaret since as I moved from the town not to long after. She and her kids now grown and Husband who may be deceased tbh were In Paris frequently had a place on Rue de Seine in time period that I knew them. I believe I saw a video of folks who took on the same adventure. It made me think of her & fam.
We Are now traveling through Portugal to find a place to make home, we are now in the central area, we drive to the amazing lands but we find it hard to find a peace of land with abounded home (everything looks more expensive then we think it would be, or we looking not good enough).. We already no we ❤portugal, its so pure and bold.
Portugueses sailors and soldiers sailed with the Spanish Armada in 1588. Portuguese soldiers and sailors fought against the English at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The Indian Sub - Continent was discovered and initially settled and colonized by Portuguese; specifically, Afonso de Albuquerque. The English stole India from the Portuguese. Whereas the conflicts between England and Portugal were not as traumatic as those fought between England and Spain. As well as between England and France, to assert that relations between England and Portugal have always been pacific and peaceful is not entirely correct.
@@rd264 Further to my post to you, if you would be interested in learning more about the history of Portugal, specifically, in India and Asia, I may recommend an book: "Afonso de Albuquerque, Lion of the Asian Seas." The original text was written in French. But I believe I have seen an copy in English. As well, you may try to find and read an essay, originally published as an newspaper article by Evelyn Waugh, the English novelist ("Brideshead Revisited"), and convert to Catholicism. In 1952 he was commissioned by an British newspaper to go to Goa, an Portuguese enclave (to this day), on the west coast of India. Upon the occasion of the final public exhibition of the relics of the "Great Saint of India," St Francis Xavier." The article was entitled "St Xavier's Bone's." His statement about Portuguese exploration in the East: "The Portuguese went first and went farther," is compelling. SIncerely Yours, D. Kyne.
The reason the villages are empty has roots in the Methuen Treaty (1703-1836) that Portugal signed with England to not have an Industrial Revolution in exchange of coastal naval protection. Now, because they did not have an industrialization boom, people can't make a living as traders and merchants anymore.
@@Deathbytroll I disagree. All European countries had an Industrial Revolution, except Portugal. If there had been one, the young could be working today remotely from the comfort of their countryside house or opening factories and plants or IT offices in inner Portugal. They wouldn't have fled massively to Australia. Portugal is the #1 provider of immigrants in the European community. They work as babysitters, bricklayers and other low-income professions in Switzerland, Germany, etc. Just like Bulgarians work like bricklayers and plumbers in other developed European countries.
@@introsig7696 Interesting point. I know about inner Spain. I saw on TV small towns in central Spain with 15 residents only. But I do not know what the situation is like in Italy. When I was in high school (decades ago), I remember hearing that Italy's upper half is developed and Italy's lower half is underdeveloped. But I don't think the situation in Italy is as severe as it is Portugal. Italy has a car industry and is Europe's reference for design. Maybe Italians do know how to gain scale or market internationally. Portugal has no blender to sell. But they are moving. They are opening IT offices in the countryside inviting Brazilians to live and work there. The problem is that these places do not have a modern healthcare infrastructure or leisure facilities or train connections to become attractive.
1. empires have always made 'economic', 'defense' and 'peace' pacts and laws and agreements to exploit, repress, control and manipulate resources and subject peoples to their political will, but how likely and effective would a pact be in addressing an industrial revolution? How could a pact implement such an agreement? 2. look for a better explanation for why Portugals trade and merchants are up a creek.
Any rural location is still better the unrelenting hell of life in any city on Earth. Peace and tranquility equals quality of life, which requires no high standard of living.