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My back of the envelope estimate is that the nomads make up around 1-4% of the Lisbon population. That‘s certainly not insignificant. On the other hand, the yo
by quonn 3y ago
My back of the envelope estimate is that the nomads make up around 1-4% of the Lisbon population. That‘s certainly not insignificant.
On the other hand, the young Portuguese have been leaving the country since 2009. Millions of them earn salaries in central and northern Europe. They left without any nomads coming to Portugal.
Shouldn‘t these millions benefiting from european freedom of movement justify a mere 20k nomads in Lisbon?
edit: Maybe it‘s not millions but only half a million.
- seydor 3y ago> Shouldn‘t these millions benefiting from european freedom of movement justify a mere 20k nomads in Lisbon? Portugal is making very little money from its emigrants anyway. I doubt they have more than 100k nomads, i suppose most of them would live in the biggest cities, and while they make the housing problem worse, most likely the problem would exist without them because portugal has the same structural problems with other southern eu countries. (Plus nomads by definition move elsewhere over a short time)