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Expats and digital nomads aren't the same thing. I'm an expat but I work locally for a local company with local wages like most people around me The problem i

Expats and digital nomads aren't the same thing. I'm an expat but I work locally for a local company with local wages like most people around me The problem is working for foreign company which pays a salary that is way above what your peers live with, it creates insane inequalities. One month of a good tech salary is one year of min wage in Portugal

quonn 3y ago
But this inequality exists everywhere, it‘s just not a year of salary but only half a year.
jmyeet 3y ago
This is a distinction without a difference. Expats often come with money from having higher wages overseas even if they work at local rates. Retirees, people who sell homes in a developed country and so on. Other than that, the Portugese government should favor Portugese people over the interests of people who simply want to relocate without any means whatsoever. This is already the case: immigrating to Portugal requires you to show you have sufficient means in terms of assets or income. This is another reason why "expat vs digital nomad" doesn't matter at all.
- lm28469 3y ago
  > Expats often come with money from having higher wages overseas even if they work at local rates. I and most of my friends are expat, we left our home country after graduation, we didn't bring nay money. We're far from an exception
0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>The problem is working for foreign company which pays a salary that is way above what your peers live with, it creates insane inequalities. Those inequalities are present regardless. It's just a matter of out of sight, out of mind. Check out this global inequality calculator, you might be surprised to learn that you're in the global 1%: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i
- lm28469 3y ago
  No it's not, when you can't live in your home town because foreigners with foreign salaries take everything it matters a lot. I don't care if someone is getting paid 5x as much for the same job in another country, I care if they get paid 5x as much for the same city
zmnd 3y ago
What you describe sounds like an immigrant, not an expat.
- lm28469 3y ago
  An expat is someone who's not living in his home country, so yes, by definition... I think a lot of people use words without understanding their meanings

quonn 3y ago

But this inequality exists everywhere, it‘s just not a year of salary but only half a year.

jmyeet 3y ago

This is a distinction without a difference. Expats often come with money from having higher wages overseas even if they work at local rates. Retirees, people who sell homes in a developed country and so on. Other than that, the Portugese government should favor Portugese people over the interests of people who simply want to relocate without any means whatsoever. This is already the case: immigrating to Portugal requires you to show you have sufficient means in terms of assets or income. This is another reason why "expat vs digital nomad" doesn't matter at all.

lm28469 3y ago
> Expats often come with money from having higher wages overseas even if they work at local rates. I and most of my friends are expat, we left our home country after graduation, we didn't bring nay money. We're far from an exception

0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago

>The problem is working for foreign company which pays a salary that is way above what your peers live with, it creates insane inequalities. Those inequalities are present regardless. It's just a matter of out of sight, out of mind. Check out this global inequality calculator, you might be surprised to learn that you're in the global 1%: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

lm28469 3y ago
No it's not, when you can't live in your home town because foreigners with foreign salaries take everything it matters a lot. I don't care if someone is getting paid 5x as much for the same job in another country, I care if they get paid 5x as much for the same city

zmnd 3y ago

What you describe sounds like an immigrant, not an expat.

lm28469 3y ago
An expat is someone who's not living in his home country, so yes, by definition... I think a lot of people use words without understanding their meanings