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They've been saying this about Portugal for years

• jacquesm 3y ago
  And to some extent it is true, but fortunately Portugal is not so easy to overrun. The area in and around Cascais is very popular with 'expats' (aka immigrants). At 200K+ inhabitants it is large enough to have all facilities, quite warm and not so large that you get the trouble associated with large cities in the South of Europe. The fact that it always was fairly wealthy probably also helps.
  • lopis 3y ago
    The problem is that "expats" don't come create a tech haven. They come with remote jobs, earn good multiples of the local salaries, come increase rents, convert houses to temporary accommodation, fund the party scene, and then they leave. There has been no concrete signs of Lisbon becoming a "tech haven".
    • jacquesm 3y ago
      Yes, I made the rough equivalent of your post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592222 But: the Cascais situation seems to be an exception to that because it's a fairly expensive place to live so that seems to ward off tech nomadism.