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I can't speak to your experience as a Portuguese person, but Porto really made a mark on me to the point where my half-Portuguese (of Azores descent) and I are considering to make Porto our second home outside of Toronto. Portugal in general feels ready for a wave of tech folk and I'm sure they could recruit back some of the talent that left, made inroads in North American tech, and are able to work remotely back in Portugal.

It's cheap, has excellent architecture, above average food, and absolutely charming people and nature.

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I also think Portugal has a great potential on this front.

The climate is relatively good, population is well educated, low crime rates, close to lots of interesting places for tourism. And tax incentives are awesome for remote workers.

I think the only reason I've not moved there is family back home.

If you're considering maintaining homes on two continents, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess the local job market in at least one of those two places doesn't affect you at all.

Yeah, well, we got married fairly recently, so we're actually saving a decent amount of money compared to before we met. Plus we both like pretty small places. Enough room for the cat and for love.

If you’re at the point that you can seriously consider maintaining two homes, across an entire ocean, you are probably far above the sort of financial decisions the average person faces.

Definitely not cheap for regular Portuguese salaries.

Do not take this personally, but people coming from rich countries and driving housing costs to skyrocket aren't getting much love.

Probably depends if you're a Portuguese homeowner or not?

Definitely, but the golden-visa-inflated-price is different from a working person that buys a reasonably priced house, no ?

I mean, regular people are also gonna pay taxes since they actually plan to live, instead of just buying an overpriced place for the visa...

The house price doesn't change depending on the buyer, and reasonable priced houses are getting hard to come by.

How much is a reasonably priced home going for in Portugal now? What are the good areas to buy in? What urban area would be good? What area in the countryside would be good?

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