moving to lisbon? finding accommodation, job opportunities + life update q&a!! 🇵🇹

an overdue lisbon q&a and life update video! hope this helps answer your questions about moving to portugal in 2023 - please let me know if there's anything I missed 🇵🇹
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- timestamps
00:00 intro
01:18 answering your questions about lisbon
07:03 personal q&a + life update
10:39 outro
- things mentioned
ironhack ux/ui bootcamp | bit.ly/3nFVtaM
transracial adoption podcast | @TransracialAdoptionPodcast
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- faq
where are you from? i'm british chinese, grew up in london and currently living in lisbon!!
what did you study and where? i studied classics for 4 years at oxford university & did a term abroad in rome at sapienza university
why did you move to lisbon alone? this video should explain things a bit more: • PLOT TWIST: i’m now a ...
how can you afford to travel so much? i choose to spend my money on travel and experiences & hope to show on this channel that not only can travel be a lot cheaper than you think, but that it's perfectly possible to work full-time whilst travelling! if i can do it, so can you :)
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- tags
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[@afrianimanuddin6888]

Can't wait your video journey about learning ui/ux design... 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@annakiseleva6497]

Please please shoot a video about housing in Lisbon!

[@violahelen_]

anything you’d like me to include in particular?

[@annakiseleva6497]

@@violahelen_ best neighborhoods and/or renting for expats

[@francineekanem9133]

Yes please!

[@samiabamia]

Curious what bootcamp are you doing? I've been thinking alot the past month about wanting to take a gap year, the one thing holding me back is knowing that all my savings will disappear and Ill have nothing left. How do you reconcile with that? did you save quite a bit to be able to afford to travel and cover housing costs.

[@violahelen_]

hey, i did this bootcamp: bit.ly/3nFVtaM & there will be vlogs to come! i save a lot, yes, and have done previous videos talking about how i manage my money (you can search them on my channel!). i reconcile spending all my savings with knowing that it's a worthwhile opportunity and i can promise you that if you really want to take a gap year and travel/explore/try new things, you won't regret spending the money!! ask yourself: will you regret not taking one in 10+ years' time?

[@hypnotechno]

by the way just looked at your videos. Langkawi? George town? Been to both of these, in fact GT I used to go many times a year when living in BKK years ago *(visa run) did you ever make it to the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia?

[@violahelen_]

yes! the vlog is here: ua-cam.com/video/OJbKRDZ8NoA/v-deo.html :)

[@hypnotechno]

@@violahelen_ I totally missed that, duh!.lol. I will watch that later. I remember staying at "Momma's place" or something like that

[@turken826]

İ also taking ux/ui design course. Can you make a video about it as well? Lots of loves from Azerbaijan ❤

[@violahelen_]

of course!! what would you like to see? :)

[@bernhard9902]

viola - I was wondering if you can talk about potential racism in Lisbon? I’d love to go but am bit scared (think I’m just too used to london 😅 thank you x

[@madje2394]

So I'm Portuguese and White, but Lisbon is not Portuguese anymore so I don't even know if I can answer this.
I don't know if you are black or what but from what I see Portuguese people are ok with other races, racism does exist though just not in public.
If this is your biggest concern you can come no problem.

[@hypnotechno]

Perhaps that incredibly ridiculously difficult time you had getting onto the Chinese course in the first place was the universe telling you it wasn't for you at this time