Hey Y'all – Did you have to show recurring income on your D7 application or just a lump sum in savings?

Congratulations on the new level of subscribers

Congratulations dear! On your 1k subscribers!!!

Congratulations! So happy for you and I love your channel ❤️

Congratulations! Disappointed, I missed the live but happily watching the replay!!! 🥰

Congratulations on your 1K subscribers!! Thanks for the inspiration of living the life of your dreams!!

We rented a car and did a two week road trip in Portugal. I recommend renting a car so you can see more cities and towns. We flew into Lisbon, drove to Algarve, Coimbra, Sesimbra, Nazare, Albufeira, Porto and parts of the country side for which I do not remember the name.

Congratulations! Where are you in Mexico? Mexico is absolutely amazing. If you get the chance, Zacatecas is such an amazing city. Boa sorte!

How did you get a permanent residency visa when you guys have not been living in Mexico?

Do you have an Instagram? I was looking the other day. I really enjoy your videos and everyone who shares these video. I’ve been following Our Rich Journey since 2017 and they have been such a great help with my financial journey. I want to move abroad one day, but I feel like I have to convince my husband more and it’s kind of annoying. 😂

yep! In Coimbra there really are some narrow streets. There is one in particular where it gets so narrow at one point that you see walls scratched by cars – and one of those walls is of a national monument!
About saudade: though the definition given by Samuel is commonly given by many, SAUDADE doesn’t necessarily mean that you are sad, it can actually fill you with happiness because of fond memories, it is a complex mix of emotions that we acknowledge as being part of life. Also, the word doesn’t apply exclusively to intense longing, it can be any normal feeling of missing someone, or place, or a memory, or just a colloquial way of expressing how much we appreciate reuniting with someone.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 congratulations!

Congrats on reaching 1000 subs! Like you did 6 years ago, I'm racing to get it together financially so that I can retire comfortably. BUT, I'm not waiting for that to leave the US. By God's grace (and my intentional movements for restarting my career), I'm able to work remotely. So I'm planning to move to Portugal early next year. I'm still 15 years from "retirement age", so I’m working on rebuilding what retirement looks like for me.

I knew that I always wanted to live outside of the US, but the world is a BIG place and I had no idea where that was. After quitting my architecture job in 2017 I left the US to travel for 6 months, but ended up not going back there until August 2020. I took advantage of that return to reinvent my career, I’m working for a tech company now which allows me to live where I want. I didn’t visit Lisbon until 2019 for the first time. I started researching the country and the more I researched, the more I started to see it as a great option for residency.

I’ve heard some extremely great things about the country in general, but more importantly the Portuguese people being so welcoming. I started learning Portuguese about 4 months ago and looking at all of the visa requirements so that I can have everything in order by Spring 2023. I’m ready! Thank you for your videos, they’re really great conversations and very informative.

Love following you both

Congratulations, this is just the beginning! 🎉🍾🥳Watching the replay. I'm so inspired by you two! Best wishes for continued success!! 😍

Congratulations!!!!

"Does that sound crazy to you? What do you think about what you're hearing?" 1:25:24

To be honest, everything Americans describe sounds like an exaggeration. Ok, so there are regular shootings in the USA, and many stories of police violence, but we're talking of a country of 330 million. The probability of anything happening to any one person in particular can't be that high.

Then there is the abortion ruling. Again, seen from Portugal all the big dramas around it sound blown out of proportion. As far as I can understand, all the Supreme Court did was to let each State decide. Not exactly Armageddon, right?

In Portugal we had a referendum in 1998 to legalise abortion. It didn't pass. No big drama, it just didn't pass.

Then we had a second referendum in 2007, and abortion was decriminalized. Who knows if one day we'll have a third referendum and abortion gets criminalized again? With the constant flow of Brazilian immigrants arriving here daily, all of whom seem to be evangelical, and whom we fast-track to PT nationality, it's not that improbable that a future referendum might criminalize abortion again.

Let me tell you something peculiar, the number of abortions taking place in Portugal nowadays and before 2007 isn't that different, what is really different is the medical conditions under which they are performed. Something else that's also quite peculiar, although thousands of abortions were done illegally in every year until 2007, the number of people in jail for that crime could probably be counted on the fingers of just one hand.

The Portuguese just don't take anything very seriously, even though 51% voted against legalizing abortion in 1998, still no one would denounce the people doing abortions and so it all kept happening in "business as usual".

Do you know why abortion became legal in 2007? Because the pro-abortion movement switched from campaigning on the basis of "my body, my decision" to "this is ridiculous, thousands of abortions happen every year and no one goes to jail. Let's put an end to this farce and do abortions in hospitals instead of nurses' living rooms". And then it won.

But in the USA the abortion debate hangs on the dramatic dichotomy "my body my decision" vs "life is sacred".

So to answer your question, everything that I hear coming from the USA sounds like it's blown out of proportion, and taken too seriously. It also seems like Americans never stop to take a long breath and check what's happening on the rest of the planet.

For example, every channel I see by African-Americans moving to Portugal cites the absence of lethal racism as one fo the reasons for moving here. Have you noticed that Portugal has "colour blindness" ingrained in Law (in our Constitution, no less)? Colour blindness is the exact opposite of what African-Americans fight for in the USA. But I've never seen even one measly article or YouTube video of anyone from the USA noticing that Portugal achieved a good result by doing the exact opposite of what is done in the USA.

In Portugal it is forbidden to collect race-based data. Let that sink in for a moment. In Portugal we don't know the racial breakup of Covid deaths, we don't know the racial breakup of people on State benefits, we don't even know the racial breakup of our own population. And it is illegal to find out…

And all those YouTube videos by African-Americans discussing how they are going to run "black businesses", "black dating apps", "black whatever" from Portugal well, I have bad news for them. All those businesses/activities are probably illegal here because it is illegal to gather any race-based data in this country.

No data, no problem! – is king in Portugal.

We all know this sentence can't be right in strict logical terms but hey, if it's working don't change it just because it is illogical. That is the Portuguese way.

Missed the live but congrats guys! I saw you around 950 like last week and I was like, they are so close! Thanks for sharing 💓