Americans flocked to Portugal for cheaper, more peaceful lives, but newcomers also brought crowds and drove up the cost of living
Americans flocked to Portugal for cheaper, more peaceful lives, but newcomers also brought crowds and drove up the cost of living
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What a weird article. If the 7,000 Americans this article claims is “flocking” to Portugal then what is the 48,000 Portuguese in the United States called? A sustainable mass exodus,lol.
Is “flocking” the new “slammed” for articles.
guy in the picture is punching above his weight
Digital nomads are a disease
few thousand americans vs half million brazilians lol
I live in a place that’s recently had a large US national influx here in Portugal, Ericeira. Some of them are great, some of them are shitheels, but all the ones I’ve met have one thing in common: they all have kids. And like, I get it. If I lived in a country where sending my kids to school would have a high degree of probability of getting them killed by a stray bullet, I’d fucking move too.
Don’t get me wrong, I still hate the fact that their higher purchasing power is causing people local to get priced out of my hometown.
EDIT: Downvote me all you want, it’s not going to stop more school shootings. Oh, and the kids angle isn’t my opinion, its what these american immigrants have told me.
Every thread about this needs to be reminded that in total, there are 11,000 registered Americans living in all of Portugal, a country of over 10,000,000. This feels like people are using Americans as an easy scape goat and chance to not have to address the much more impactful and direct sources of global cost of living crisis we are all in.
The party will be over once the dollar goes back to where it belongs.
So they basically gentrified Portugal?
I like how the headline switches from “Americans” to “newcomers” because there are too few Americans to actually cause this change.
This is a weird headline. There are not that many Americans in Portugal (even if it’s becoming a trend to move there). Portugal is an EU country, meaning any EU citizen can move there with far less complications than US citizens. Furthermore, there are also more Brazilians there than Americans.
Retirees, remote workers and digital locusts. Couple that with landlords seeing easy money money and governments giving corporations like tax exemptions and you got the 5 horsemen of the cultural apocalypse.
>”There’s the hustle culture of working the corporate 9-to-5, so we wanted to try the European lifestyle out and see what the difference was and how we would like it.”
Should someone tell him that we also work from 9 to 5 in Europe?