TO THE COMMENT OF DANCE RICO, THAT I AM SO PROUD 🥹 AND THAT I AGREE TOTALLY. ALSO TO UNSWER YOUR VIDEO, FIRST I APOLOGIZE FOR THE FRETTING THAT YOU HAD IN YOUR COMMENTS. BUT THAT DONT REPRESENT THE PEOPLE FROM MADEIRA BUT JUST PROBABLY TEENAGERS IMMATURES OR PEOPLE THAT ATE SCARE BECAUSE THEY SAW VIDEOS OF AMERICANS THAT PUT THE MOVING OF AMERICANS LIKE A FRETTING 🌊. I AM MADEIRENSE AND I LIVE IN USA 🇺🇸. ALL PEOPLE FROM MADEIRA ARE THE MOST FRIENDLY AND GENEROUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND THEY ALWAYS WELCOME AND RESPECT PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. IF THIS FEAR CAME UP WAS CREATED FROM SOME PEOPLE FROM USA THAT COMPARE WITH SOME STATES THAT HAD PEOPLE FROM FLORIDA AND NEW YORK, AND THEY PUT THEIR POINT OF VIEWS TO OUTSIDERS LIKE PORTUGAL. AND THAT WILL SCARE THEM, WHEN THEY ALWAYS WELCOME EVERYBODY. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I UNDERSTAND YOUR FEAR , I WOULD TOO BUT SEE THE FACTS FIRST. READ THIS UNTIL THE END PLEASE. SO BEFORE AMERICANS CAME TO OUR COUNTRY ALREADY PORTUGAL AND MADEIRA, AÇORES, HAD PEOPLE COMING FROM ENGLAND AND A LOT OF THEM FROM OTHER COUNTRIES TOO, ALSO RUSSIANS WITH BILLIONS. BUT YOU DONT SEE THEM MAKING VIDEOS AND SAYING THAT BAD PROPAGANDA ABOUT THEM SELFS AND SCARE LOCALS OR PUTTING LIKE THEY ARE THE WAVE OF PROBLEMS. THE ECONOMIE OF PORTUGAL HAD IMPROVE WITH MONEY FROM HELP OF EU BUT MAJORITY FROM LOCALS EMIGRANTES THAT WENT FOR OTHER COUNTRIES AND BRING THEIR MONEY AND ALSO FROM PEOPLE MOVING OR VISITING PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 . WE ARE NOT RACIST, THE MAJORITY OF THE PORTUGUESE, WELL YOU COULD FIND THE RARE ONES BUT USUALLY ARE PROPLE THAT ARE MISARABEL WITH THEM SELFS, AND IF THEY SEE VIDEOS FROM ANERICANS SAYING THAT IT HAPEN IN USA 🇺🇸 WELL YOU WILL TWISTED THEY COMPLICATED MINDS AND YOU WILL MAKE THEM MANIACS. PLEASE UNDERSTAND ENGLISH PEOPLE ARE COMING TOO BEFORE AMERICANS AND THEY DONT MADE A VIDEOS SAYING THAT THEY GONE CAUSE THE CAOTIC WAVE 🌊 THAT WILL RISE UP ALL THE LOCALS AGAINST THEM.UNDERSTAND THE FACT THAT THE ECONOMIE IS GLOBOL AND ALL PRICES IS RISING EVERY WHERE, AND THE PEOPLE THAT DONT HAVE TOO MUCH INCOME WILL SUFFER AND EVEN MIDDLE CLASS. THEN THE VIRUS 🦠 THEN THIS WAR WITH THE MANIATIC PUTTING. ALL OF THAT IS MAKING THIS. PLEASE DONT SCARE AMERICANS OR PORTUGUESE WITH THIS VIDEOS, AND YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. AMERICANS JUST LEARN TO RELAX AND BRIED, A DAY AFTER DAY, PORTUGUESE PEOPLE ARE VERY GOOD WITH THAT, AND AMERICANS ARE VERY GOOD IN THE POSITIVE MIND. SO GET OUT OF THE PANIC. LISTEN PORTUGUESE ARE BILIONS ALL AROUND THE WORLD 🌎 WORKING IN DIFERENT COUNTRIES, THEY RESPECT THE CULTURE OF THOSE COUNTRIES AND THEY STEP IN TO LEARN SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE. BUT ITS OK YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME TO LEARN OUT LANGUAGE, MOST OF US SPEAK ENGLISH, BUT WE ARE FRIENDLY TO TEACH AND WE CHEER THE FOREIGNERS WHEN THEY ARE LEARNING. YOU ALWAYS GONE FIND IN THE MOST REMOT COUNTRY ONE ☝️ PORTUGUESE. SO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ITS TO RESPECT THE CULTURE OF PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 LEARN THE LANGUAGE IN YOUR ON PATHWAY AND LEARN THE HISTORY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY THAT BEFORE WAS LIKE USA 🇺🇸 BEFORE AND WENT IN THE ADVENTURE OF FACING THE SEA 🌊 AND DISCOVERING OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE USA 🇺🇸 WENT TO THE SPACE EXPLORE. PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 ALWAYS WAS A RISING NATION, FORM FROM OTHER PEOPLE THAT CAME IN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND CULTURES, THAT CONTRIBUTE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COUNTRY. SO ALSO THE PORTUGUESE LEFT THE COUNTRY FOR OTHER COUNTRIES TOO, LIKE AMERICANS ARE DOING NOW MOVING THERE NOW. BUT THE MOVING OF PEOPLE ALWAYS WAS A FACT SINCE THE WORLD 🌎 WAS FORM BY OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, THATS WHY WE MOVING OF PEOPLE FROM A COUNTRY TO ANOTHER, ITS A FACT AND SOMING THAT ALWAYS GONE HAPPING. SO WE CAN LEARN SO MUCH FROM YOU, IF YOU JUST LIEVE THE MIND OF FEAR AND JUST RELAX AND LEARN TO LIVE LIKE PORTUGUESE AND KEEP YOUR CULTURE TOO. PEOPLE ARE BORN IN ONE COUNTRY AND END UP IN ANOTHER ONE. SO LETS DONT BLAME THE MOVING OF THE PEOPLE BUT THE GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR POLICIES. AMERICANS STOP BLAME YOURSELVES FOR WHAT ITS HAPPEN IN THE WORLD 🌎 . THOSE IDEAS 💡STARED WITH SOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA NOT IN THE COUNTRIES YOU ARE GOING TO, BUT YOU SHOW OUT, THAT WILL SCARE THE LOCALS FROM THOSE COUNTRIES THAT YOU MOVE IN. SO STOP BLAME YOUR SELFS FROM MOVING AND STOP 🛑 SAYING THAT IN VIDEOS BECAUSE YOU ARE CREATING THE FEAR 😧 IN PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ENOUGH MATURE, TO REALIZE THAT THE ECONOMY IS GLOBOL ALSO WARS TOO, VIRUS 🦠 AS WEEL. AND ALL OF THAT ITS GOING ON IN THE GLOBAL 🌎 WILL AFECT THE PRICES OF HOUSES AND FOOD EVERYWHERE. IF YOU HAVE MORE MONEY THAN LOCALS ITS NOT YOUR FAULT, BUT THE GOVERNMENT THAT DONT PUT A CONTROL,ON PEOPLE THAT SELL HOUSES, OR NOT CREAT A PLOCIE THAT OVERCOME THAT PROBLEM. BUT THE FACT THAT ITS WAR AND PRICES RISING ITS SO COMMUM ALL OVER THE WORLD 🌎 SO AMERICANS STOP PLEASE SPREADING THE IDIEA THAT ITS YOUR FAULT. GOVERNMENTS POLICIES AND THE BIG ECONOMICS GRIUPS ARE THE ONES TO BLAME. JUST PLEASE DONT DRAMATIZE AND PEOPLE THAT DESAPEAR IN MADEIRA ARE PEOPLE THAT FALL FROM “LEVADAS”( LEVADAS ITS STRAIGHT LINES OF WATER 💧 THAT ITS GOING ON THE MOUNTAINS 🏔 IN THE HORIZONTAL LINE OF ROCKS CRAVED IN THOSE MAINTAINS TO CARRY THE WATER 💦 TO THE AGRICULTURE FIELDS, MADE WITH SMALL PATHS CLOSER , SO PEOPLE CAN WALK), AND THEY FIND THEIR BODIES AFTER BUT IS NOT SOMEONE KILLING THEM WITH NIFES ALSO THAT CRIME IT’IS MORE BETWEEN LOCAL PEOPLE ALCOHOLICS SMALL AND RARE GROUPS. AND THERE IS POLICE 👮‍♀️ AND LAWS THERE TOO, NO CULTURE OF FEAR AND GUNS, SO IF YOU WANT TO MOVE FOR RETIREMENT IS SECURE OR IF YOU WANT TO INVEST ITS ALSO FINE. IT WILL BE GOOD FOR PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 AND THE ILANDS, MORE INVESTMENT TO GIVE WORK , TO LOCAL PEOPLE, THEY NEED JOBS FOR THE CLASS BELOW ⬇️ MIDDLE CLASS, YOU ARE HELPING THEM. YOU ARE FREE TO COME AND WELCOME. I LIEVE IN USA 🇺🇸 I MISS MADEIRA MY ILAND EVERYDAY, UNFORTUNATELY I CANT GO BACK, HEALTHY PROBLEMS AND MY SON WANT TO STAY IN USA 🇺🇸 THAT ITS HIS COUNTRY AND HE LOVES TO LIVE HERE. BUT THE FACT ITS THAT MAJORITY OF PORTUGUESE DONT BLAME AMERICANS THIS IDEIA WAS MADE IN USA 🇺🇸 BY SOME-PEOPLE, JUST STOP 🛑 WITH THAT MOVE ON, RELAX AND LIVE LIKE PORTUGUESE DONT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW LIKE THEY SAY “ JUST GOD KNOWS “ , TRUST IN GOD HAVE FAITH AND LEARN TO ADOPTED OUR PORTUGUESE CULTURE THAT WILL LEARN WITH YOUR TOO, LIKE ALWAYS HAPEN WHEN PORTUGAL WAS FORM, TAKE A LOOK IN OUR HISTORY. WE ARE SO FRIENDLY, OUR COUNTRY GROWED SO MUCH FROM PEOPLE THAT CAME IN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND YOUR COUNTRY GROWED TOO FROM PEOPLE THAT CAME IN AS WELL. JUST COMUM SENSE, I SEE THAT AMERICANS LIVE IN FEAR AND THESE IS COTTAGE, JUST LIEVE THAT, JUST RELAX , OPEN YOUR MIND AND TAKE THISE 💡 IDEAS OFF, AND WHAT EVER YOU DECIDED DO IT WITH YOUR HEART ❤️ AND MIND, YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN WITH PORTUGUESE AND THEM ALSO WITH YOU. LIVE THE LABELS OF FEAR 😧 ENJOY LIVE AND PLEASE STOP BLAMING YOURSELVES LEARN WITH YOUR BROTHERS FROM ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 THEY DONT BLAME THEMSELVES. GOD BLESS YOU ALL, STOP 🛑 BLEM YOUR SELFES FROM MOVING WHEN SINCE THE WORLD 🌎 WAS MADE BY GOD MOVING OF PEOPLE WAS SO COMMON.

Sad to hear that you were threatened. The first I have ever heard of this. The problem, if we call it that, was created by the Portuguese government as it was looking for ways to deal with fallout from the downturn in the economy after 2008. The government and many Portuguese based businesses have done eerything they can to encourage people (especially retirees) to come, not take jobs, and to spend their income or buy property. We are not to blame for the policies that made it attractive from us to come. I am planning to go there. I refuse to feel guilty.
I think you were trolled.

Sorry you had to deal with that? But you should not take the comments down…to see the reaction you will get about true Madeirenses reading about this nonsense that Madeirenses walking on the street with knives looking for foreigner's to stab??!! Normally those types of comments come from teenagers when they're drunk and have nothing better to do with them miserable life's. Yes there are some people disappear from Madeira(but they're Normally found down the cliff's or levadas) sometimes days later,sometimes years later,but none of them with stabs wounds. If there's is a figth evolving a knives…Normally it's between 2 Madeirenses. Do a video asking foreigner's that already living in Madeira what they think about the security living in Madeira lately.
I just have one comment for that.
All family's from Madeira have some family members living abroad…so hearing that you not welcomed in here doesn't make sense for me. Madeirenses are one of the most welcoming people in the world.

Sorry you had to deal with those threats. Totally understand how they must be overwhelmed with all the newcomers however it’s no excuse to threaten the life of others. On a side note we have ancestors that belonged to Madeira and I’m sure they would be overjoyed to have relatives return to their homeland and most importantly we are trying to be apart of the way they live and not turn Madeira into what life is like here in the United States. Best of luck to you guy’s and the move.

Good convo, I am two years out from retirement and worry that all the affordable places will no longer be affordable.