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This is terrible. I'm Portuguese and lived in Lisbon for 12 years before moving to northern Europe. I lived in this exact neighborhood (C. de Ourique) in fact
by jdmoreira 4y ago
This is terrible.
I'm Portuguese and lived in Lisbon for 12 years before moving to northern Europe.
I lived in this exact neighborhood (C. de Ourique) in fact I lived meters away from where the photo was taken. Half my family was born and raised there.
Each time I go back I get sick to my stomach because it's obvious that society is getting segregated into two independent and very different groups with very different wealth levels and purchase power. The locals are just servants to these "expats".
I blame the local politicians of course. They always wanted to get rich on the real estate and they have pulled it off.
- alephnerd 4y agoI heard Portuguese elected officials started rolling back a lot of legislation that was tourist/investor oriented like the investor visa and digital nomad oriented legislation due to political blowback. Is that not the case?
- jdmoreira 4y agoVery recently yes. Hasn't been approved yet. But it's kind of irrelevant because they already cashed out
- alephnerd 4y agoAh that makes sense. Honestly really sad to see the political mismanagement in Portugal. I've met a couple Portuguese diaspora members and they are great people, but it's so sad how the only option to build a strong career is to go abroad to London, Spain, or France despite Portugal having increasingly decent higher educational programs.