Happy and perfectly settled in Portugal
There has been a lot of attention in the media at the moment about Portugal and Spain following in Greece’s footsteps and going bankrupt. I have many of the stories some coming from the English press but the majority of them from local papers.
Iam sure the stories will soon become a reality and I am ready for when this happens….
I remember just after arriving in Portugal and the crash of the Pound along side the Euro and it couldn’t have come at a worse time for me and my family. At the time we were expanding our business and looking for long term accommodati0on to move into. We soon realised that we would be using our saved pounds to pay for our furniture and even buying things like a television would cost us an extra £100 and our money would not stretch as far as we wanted it to.
It meant that it was an extra couple of months before I could cover all my costs but as I was getting paid in US Dollars we weren’t as badly off as others that have since returned to England.
But most of all we had our own business that would never be affected by the recession so we were safe and I feel the exact same way about the current problems with Portugal. I will probably be more careful with the cash that I spend until I know for sure what impact it will have on my family and our business.
If I lived in England now I would still be concerned but there would be a lot more to make me worry. I don’t want to live in a nanny state and being in Portugal makes me feel free and alive and I wont trade that for anything.
Thanks for reading my blog post and I hope you enjoy our expat tips. I love living in the Algarve and sharing my stories with you.
Thanks for reading
Samantha
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Hi Samantha, Great blog. You recently visited mine – if you are interested to comparing notes on how Expats are treated (tax, residencia, health etc etc) get back to me – I am thinking about trying to co-ordinate a project to do just this across the major EU countries – How are Expats being treated?
I want to feel the same freedom, and i dont want my son to be raised by teachers and nannies too…
Can he go to a school? when i work, do i have to pay for those schools?
How about jobs? I speak 5 languages and did sales and horeca(bars and beach) work for manyyyy years…
I also do hair, or build webpages…administration..
My portuguese aint so good yet… i just started my course but know how to introduce myself.. I know spanish though and in the Algarve they understood me speaking spanish..
I want to leave soon.. and maybe you got some tips
greetings
Heidi
Hi heidi
school is no problem at all if you don’t speak the language and we aren’t fluent so it is not a problem though it is nice to have it as a long term goal. Jobs are easy to find if you are self employed or involved in the tourism sector.
We build webpages ourselves and have good work out here – there is plenty of work you just have to be determined to find it.
Spanish can be quite similar so you will do fine with it
kind regards
sam
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