Postcards: Don't Move to Portugal

Good grief, stop emailing me!

Dear Fellow Expat:

Do you get these emails?

The ones telling you about a wonderful discount on real estate in Portugal?

That you can live in Portugal for half the price of America?

Yes.

You can live there.

But then you’d be in Portugal.

Do you know what is happening in Portugal?

No, I’m asking you.

What happens in Portugal?

I’m not picking on a business model, but I’ll tell you…

Getting me all riled up about U.S. inflation… getting me to move across the Atlantic… selling all my stuff… putting my dogs in quarantine… and then… llving in Portugal.

To likely DIE in Portugal.

No.

Even if you make it there… most people in Portugal don’t want us there.

That place is massively bureaucratic, making America look lean and agile like a startup.

There’s no stable water supply.

Americans pay higher prices than the locals (this also happens in many South American places). I could go on and on.

I know these nations… very well.

I also know way too much about how these things end.

Sir Gregor MacGregor - the ori…