@cynthiahudson7528
Found your channel last week and am enjoying the videos. Well done and thank you for sharing your experiences.
@retirementbudgettravel699
Excellent, thought provoking video!! Thank you!! Marion & Jan 😁👍🏼
@JaySingh-ci6tl
Thank you for your very informative videos. Any chance of you doing a video of filing your taxes both in the USA and Portugal and what the experience was like?
@sailingwanderlust22
Great video. Maybe sometime you could do video of what your expenses are in Portugal compared to the US?
@anarchie771
Well, overall living in portugal is much cheaper for you due to your higher income (not for us with a 700 euros minimum salary) . Anyways, thank you for helping a younger generation of portuguese who are strugling to start a life here, with the amount of people who recently came to enjoy our contry, making the house market totaly inaccessible. Next year, renting and house prices will continue to rise, as well as groceries pricing, since you find it so cheap. Thanks
@icarlapaulino
You guys are in Nazaré! Thats exactly where we would like to move ❤
@linegenevievemichaud6739
Hello from Canada is difficult to find a pet friendly apartment in that area. I plan to move in the next 5 months
@marlonlicup10
Learning alot! Thanks! Can you talk about medical coverage? Thanks for sharing! Can you also add the pros and cons for families? Also as far as daily living is it the same like they have dishwashers, air-conditioning, heating. I just read that those aren't normal there. Difference in culture. Enjoying your videos!
@soufer275
Love your videos! Especially because we live in NY close to border of CT and thinking to move to Portugal.
@markgold5408
Yes, yes, yes….things are less expensive in Portugal….but the taxes are ridiculous
@grizfan93
We're a little over 2 years living here in Portugal. It does get easier. I've noticed that the last 8-10 months, I've started getting a better feel and understanding of how things work. I've mostly mastered grocery shopping now, and even getting my head wrapped around the bureaucracy a bit. It is tough to learn a brand new bureaucracy, especially in a new language. I see people with wildly unrealistic expectations for settling in. There are so many new things to learn, but that's part of the adventure. Also, I see a lot of people pick a "charming town" or some small coastal town that is really pretty, but often lacking the important amenities needed for daily life. They get caught up in the romance of a small, charming home near the sea, then later discover all the downsides. Make sure you live in a place with enough shops and stores, and a private hospital. A little planning goes a LONG ways.
@catharinewhitby3649
During our lives, we moved to several different countries (Mexico, Chile, Mauritania...) Our experience of moving to Portugal that is different than the others is that the bureaucratic challenges here have been much more difficult. Opening a bank account, going through the residency process, exchanging our drivers licenses, etc. has been much more challenging than it was for us in those other countries. Our observation is that things we think might be difficult, occur relatively easily. Other things we think should be no problem end up taking much more time and effort. We wanted to be based in Portugal so that we could travel more easily, and, ironically, we can still not leave the country after 16 months in the residency process. That said, we do love Portugal and continue to enjoy being here.
@teodoro1007
Very useful !! Of course, I’m too an Expat, but I lived dating and marriage years in Argentina. That was from 1974 to 2017, when I became a widower due to the terrible safety conditions in Argentina. The Numbeo indexes of QOL and comparisons between cities proved very accurate. One clear indicator of safety issues and robbery is the presence of iron bars on the windows, visible through a lot of computer apps. These bars are never decoration! As a 72 y. o. I'm really happy with the north of Portugal (not the Lisbon area) having lived in Uruguay, Brazil, the US, Germany, the UK, etc.. Safety is really very very important for me. Let's say that I hold an EU pass. Since 2021 I'm renting an apartment near to the Coimbra Stadium. In Nazaré you got the world-famous waves. Surfing is a pending issue for me, but first, for 2026, comes calisthenics 😅. No joke, I celebrated my 70 years doing 10 Km in a Marathon time here in hilly Coimbra 🤣. The problems you talk about are not present here in Coimbra, so I like it a lot. But I must recognize languages help me a lot. My mother´s language was german, my father was my mother´s french teacher, and my neighbors in Argentina were italian. Spanish and English came for school 😄. I agree totally about what say about different countries in your vid ! :goodvibes:
@leanderian
The FedEx Cup? What's that? Never heard of it.
@SharonBreslau
Is it allowed to have a Passport from the US and also one from Portugal...or do you have to let go of your US passport?
@goncalocarvalho4917
you can choose in your box the spoken language for most sport emission, if yours is in Portuguese you can just change it ton English, i did that for the Olympic games ; )
@euricofrade6728
Restaurant chains? Really? I've lived in several countries (I'm in Brazil now) and even if you know the country you are moving to very well, if you decide to settle definitely, it takes time to absorb all the nuances. Last but not least, and this point is paramount, learn the lingo!!!!!!!!!
@quifix1
Hello, welcome You are in another country, another language, another culture, another reality. The world is very diverse, you don't want to have everything here like in your home country, which is huge. Unfortunately you find all the junk food you are used to in bigger cities and shopping centers (Mac, CFQ, Starbuks and the like). Unfortunately, these chains are spreading here too. We have a very rich and varied cuisine, especially outside the cities, as we have a lot of tourism and there too our gastronomy is being adulterated. We have a very varied and rich bakery, each location has characteristic varieties, we don't just have the famous pastel de nada, we have much more and much better, but this one has become the international star. In Europe we like football, you in the USA like another sport, that's how the world is, a lot of diversity, maybe you should become more European, since you're here. It's a cultural shock, but try to learn some of the Portuguese language and don't isolate yourself in a bubble, live with nationals, the majority welcome and accept immigrants well, we don't use expatriates, but as everywhere there are friendly people and others less so, There are good people and others who are less good. Accept the culture and integrate, making comparisons is not the best option, we are different, we have different laws, different ways of living and being in life, as is normal, I hope you enjoy being here and your Portuguese followers can be useful, ask your doubts and questions, we like to help...
@goncalocarvalho4917
i see you live in Nazaré, oh yeah that is a SMALL town , i think 15k people in that region, probably the same has in a NY block, so you will not have much store or services available. But one thing is indeed, bureaucracy here is quite tiring
@matthewknott6610