The 12 Pieces of Advice Your Expat Heart Needed And Did Not Know

Learn the language

Adapt. You’re the guest. Not us.

Understand the problems you complain about in this website are the same nationals face on a daily basis. None of us invited your richer asses into the neighbourhoods you are kicking us from.

This is an actual country, not an open air resort. Please play by the rules.

The decisions that allow you to benefit from our tax system and real estate market were taken by an elite who ignores us. Every country has it.

We don’t need you to survive. We were poor, but there's worse on this Planet.

None of your complains would ever happen “only in Portugal”. Glorified tourists and “expats” in your countries of origin have tons of stories just like these.

Understand that whatever needs to be changed in this country must benefit those who belong and live here. Expats and digital nomads are exactly that.

Oh, Portugal has actually less taxes on income than, let’s say, Spain, France or Italy. The problem with low wages are employers and the Government. Not taxes.

If you want things to be just like at home… maybe home is the place to be

Expats are just fancy immigrants who patronise locals. We know that.

Be humble. Be kind. Or be gone.