I really can't understand why people are killing themselves after the Portuguese "residence"? 48% taxes, $200/month pension, a lot of crime, why? I am talking about those guys from YouTube.... they say "no tax for foreign dividends", but anyway those are withheld at source, low taxes, but the 20% is only if you are a doctor, you can get 0% in Romania if you are doctor! and the country have the same level of poverty/prosperity... what's the trick what does such a residency help you with? crypto? 0%? now I say that they never specifically said that it is 0% and that they even want to tax some people retroactively...
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WTF Portugal?!
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It'd down to marketing. Portugal have done a good job of marketing the country to non-residents for immigration purposes that's why. They have managed to sell people a dream of good whether, food, med lifestyle, tax incentives etc. It's a country that is on everybodies lips because of this I guess.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/12/portugals-sardine-capitalism-is-a-model-for-the-world/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/12/portugals-sardine-capitalism-is-a-model-for-the-world/
it probably has a dck
I guess everyone is different but for most HNWI the end goal is not to pay 0 tax but to maximise the mathematical function of lifestyle and tax optimisation. I mean if you can open holdings in offshore juridictions and set up mechanisms not to be there physically all the time and pay virtually no tax good for you but most people like me (meaning who are not worth 8 figures and more) would rather pay as little tax as possible while being in a juridiction that offers a good lifestyle (weather, beach, culture, costs of living etc). I don't know the taxation of Portugal and Georgia but if the former offers 15-20% all inclusive taxation and the latter 10% I would still go for the former. 10-15% is already a very good %, that's what some of the most tax friendly juridictions in the world offer (SG, HK for instance which have their highest income bracket locked in at around 13-15% tax)
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Also. One more important thing to take into consideration. How are Spanish and Portuguese girls? Are them easy as Russians , Hungarians, colombians ? i mean , is it easy to get a girlfriend, i am not talking about whores.
Good question, I'm interested too. Too bad almost all Spanish girls are vaccinated though.
Portugal is good if you're a EU resident and planning to get retired. The tax incentives mostly target retirees (At least the interesting incentives lol), which is why the country is full of french expats.
If you intend on doing business, having a profession, or any kind of activity generating income, you'll get hustled. It's not a tax haven by any means despite how they try to market themselves to naive expats.
The country used to be a good place for investors because everything was cheap around 2010-2011, you could buy a house on the beach for a little over 140k euros. Now the same house goes for 1.3-1.5 million euros. The cost of living for the big cities like Lisbon are insanely high too and rival other major european cities. What ever perks the country had are no longer present, unless the retirement tax incentives are something you're after and you don't mind paying near-paris prices for services in the major cities. At these prices there's a lot more attractive places to retire in, Italy for example is the same in terms of bureaucracy and useless government but at least the perks are better, prices are better and you have a lot more options as an expat.
As for the girls: Insanely stuck up and very liberal minded, the girls in Lisbon reminded me of the skanks in Madrid/Barcelona who practiced polyamory and hated men in general. Most are easy but don't expect to find any "love" lol
If you intend on doing business, having a profession, or any kind of activity generating income, you'll get hustled. It's not a tax haven by any means despite how they try to market themselves to naive expats.
The country used to be a good place for investors because everything was cheap around 2010-2011, you could buy a house on the beach for a little over 140k euros. Now the same house goes for 1.3-1.5 million euros. The cost of living for the big cities like Lisbon are insanely high too and rival other major european cities. What ever perks the country had are no longer present, unless the retirement tax incentives are something you're after and you don't mind paying near-paris prices for services in the major cities. At these prices there's a lot more attractive places to retire in, Italy for example is the same in terms of bureaucracy and useless government but at least the perks are better, prices are better and you have a lot more options as an expat.
As for the girls: Insanely stuck up and very liberal minded, the girls in Lisbon reminded me of the skanks in Madrid/Barcelona who practiced polyamory and hated men in general. Most are easy but don't expect to find any "love" lol
Is it like Latin America or Ukraine where i put my photo online as a white man, and i get 500 matches/day ? Can I just talk 5 minutes to a girl and touch her pussy and bring it to a toilet, forest, park , for some fun ? I tried to use Badoo too in Portugual / Spain , nobody added me.Maybe they use Tinder, i don't want to pay on Tinder as i have an "anonymous card" I don't want to link to my real identity, i only cash money at ATM (no extra fees in Europe)
In Some cities you can have a lot of sex with a lot of women , very easy,as a foreign guy.
Is Like women have no value there. Just stay away from cities like "Odessa, ukraine" in kiev, lviv you will be fine. But of course men are stupid, they use "marriage website" , and some scammers are fishing them by buying ads on google, when they search for "ukranian girls" .
it's incredible how stupid men can be . they will go in thailand and get a girlfriend that works as an escort, from a strip club, if they go to colombia they find whores who ask for money, i don't know how and from where, where basically in colombia you can f**k anything that moves. there was a psycho man , who had sex with kids, with over 200 kids and he put the videos on darkweb for sale. All fine, problem is that he was real weirdo, fat, bald with uncut long hair, very old clothes, 2+ size more for his clothes ... but, he managed to have sex with 200 + kids .and this is not all , he picked-up those girls and boys in public places, like open markets,etc... even having sex with them in nearby locations like toilets, parks,etc.
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It remains an absolute mystery why you seem not to be able to find a women who wants to be the mother of your children.
Damn,..how did this thread turn into this 
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.Damn,..how did this thread turn into this
We are men. We need to know all advantages/disadvantages.
Like Dubai = very hot, sand storms, and no pussy
Colombia = pussy but high crime rate.
Ukraine = pussy but high scam rate.
Russia = most pussy you can probably get anywhere in Europe, but lower than in Colombia, 8% income tax, but.... but...
You must have visited a different Dubai (ref to item 3 above)And STDs
Cheap version of Russia
Cheap version of Dubai
I don't think most people are moving to Portugal for women. If anyone is factoring women into a moving decision then they have already lost.
