In my view, there's nothing "sad" about parts of a country being "empty": Given the TRULY SAD REALITY of the "New" "Normal", I'd rather live in "empty" places in which one can lead a nice, slow and meaningful LIFE in the company of like-minded human beings, away from the maddening global crowds of predators 🙃
I would avoid the tourist infested green part of the map. People have been living in the red part and also over the border in Spain, which is similar, for hundreds of years. They live simply and meet their own needs, and don't follow the over-consumptive lifestyle of the west. Imagine. Clean water, clean air, no roads full of traffic noise and fumes, fresh locally-grown food, no unhealthy junk food, no bars and discos, no touristy boutiques and shopping malls full of everything no one really needs, no surfers, no loud 'music', no half-dressed rowdy drunken visitors, no litter on the streets, no tourists treating your villages as a playground...what could be better?
A company bought a village for 5M euros and transformed it in a touristic resort. Now it's abandoned. Get a grip. Tourists want night life, restaurants, entertainment. And we don't want our villages transformed into theme parks.
I like that it was a Portuguese guy that bought that village and is renovating it for some agro-tourism. To him, I will say thank you Sir for saving an old historic Portuguese village. My grandparents lived in one of those old villages and I have the most wonderful memories of going there and loving their old stone little village, where the roads were also made of large stones, and every single experience I had of the country life. To me those stone homes always had a peculiar smell of yeast & flour raising for fresh bread everyday… something I discovered when I started making bread myself. Please Sir keep saving more old villages! These stone villages should all be saved and taken care. They are old, historic, they tell us a lot of the peasant way of living, a hard way of living yes, but also a good one near the beautiful and healthy nature. These villages need to be preserved for the future. And the Portuguese government should be the first one to engage on their saving and preservation for the country and for the Portuguese. Agro-tourism can help saving these wonderful historic villages for the future. One village should be a live museum showing the peasant way of living and their traditional rural craftsmanships. Teach the kids how bread, cheese, baskets, rag blankets, etc were once made. Old villages and peasant life in the old way should be preserve. Not just palaces & castles… Peasant Villages too!
I bought a house in portugal in a hamlet for the tranquility of the countryside. Planted dozens of fruit and olive trees. I wouldn't exchange it for City living.
Of course. Same all over rural Europe - if the telecommunications companies had the motivation to invest in these places it might be possible to repopulate them. And why not let refugees who know how to farm and be self-sufficient settle there? Could be a salvation for people who just want to escape war but are not interested in corporate life and digitalisation.
@@elledix3575 No, we have excellent internet - €45 unlimited mobile broadband that streams 1080 no problem. The issue is quality of life for the people who can work remote. If you can earn €2000 a month you can live well anywhere in Portugal - so why live in a schist house with few amenities and few neighbors?
I worked in Galicia, Spain in the mid-1990s, and would visit Porto, and parts of eastern and northern Portugal. Most of the country was very sparcely populated then also. It was scenic, but mostly empty. Many abandoned homes, farms, and small businesses scattered everywhere.
Brazilian protest song which says" turning with your back to the countryside will not make this country a good place to live, apparently also applies to its former motherland. ua-cam.com/video/Yx37B9l0hTY/v-deo.htmlsi=Vvy1V4kj690KNNSi
THIS is what happens when the women start taking birth control, stop having babies in favor of education and careers. It's a form of SUICIDE! This is happening in Japan, China (albeit slowly) and other high-tech countries whose women value education and careers over old-fashioned family life.
The interior of Portugal is stunningly beautiful...we love it here, there are great schools, there is good public transport, loads of small village shops & mobile vans, everyone grows veg & shares. One thing is very true - we need more people! So, we live here & if you are reading this, maybe you are considering a move, so here is a brief take... There are hundreds of properties of all types for sale - you need to visit as not much is online & people really want to sell to people they appreciate! Note, there are planning easements in place dependent on how much land you have, whether in National Parks etc that are worth investigating. Not all of Portugal is hot! We are in Guarda region at 868 metres & it gets cold in winter!! The climate here is like the UK but with two months shorn off winter & added on as glorious summer...with fires a present danger. Castelo Branco, not far away, is searing hot by comparison with Guarda. Water must be your obsession...boreholes are expensive & you'll need more than one can provide. They are not reliable enough to be your only source. All the best from @HowardsPortugal
We recently purchased a small farm, fruit trees, olive, and a small vinyard in a small village in central portugal near A13 toll road. We just spent 75 days there and have our 4 bedroom 2 bath house completely set up and comfortable and have just returned to the US. The area is very inexpensive and one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen. The small farm villages local population is so welcoming and helpful. Any one considering a move should explore the real rural portugal and experience life at its best.
Hang in there - the AI revolution coming at us like a freight train is going to change EVERYTHING. People will be able to make good livings from their home computer from anywhere (including Antarctica). Anywhere you can get StarLink satellite connections. People need to move out of the cities which are rapidly becoming just too crowded. With Amazon deliveries being global, that opens up even the most rural area to commerce and living needs. While the AI will replace a LOT of people's jobs, it will open up opportunities galore to anyone paying a bit of attention.
@@sarahdeshay1394 Indeed. Totally agree. I live in Alentejo but used to own a place just off a junction of the A13. If you obsess about speaking English and things like that then inland Portugal won't be for you. But if you want to live in the country and get on with your neighbours (which means learning at least the minimum amount of Portuguese to be polite) than it's a really, really nice place to live. And not at all expensive. And certainly not subject to the price rises that have affected Lisbon. People are helpful and genuine. And it's a really safe place to live, too. Great for children.
What a beautiful way to live. There are a lot of people seeking this kind of peace and tranquility. Folks wanting to live life simply and living off the land sharing and enjoying a real community. I myself would love to live there
Portugal is not empty. By comparison, the US is a lot more empty. Portugal's population density is about 110 people per square kilometer, while population density of the US is about 36 people per square kilometer. Canada is even more empty at just 4 people per square kilometer.
South Africa is around 50 people per square kilometer. You wouldn't say so though as most live in dense cities. There are vast stretches of uninhabited land. Unfortunately due to toxi fertilizers and bad rural farming methods a lot of tribal land has become infertile and people don't have the patience or skill to rehabilitate the land.
I lived in Portugal in the south of Nazare from 1998 for several years with my family. What a great country, culture and people. You will always be in my heart. 😘
From videos I've seen, Portugal's archaic and complex laws and the inefficient government bureaucracy are the biggest impediments to buying property and building homes there.
@@dianewassell7693 if it takes long time to understand how the local bureaucracy works, it means it's inefficient, slow and expensive, that's why nobody lives there. One can work everything out in half in hour in Estonia and everything can be done online.
Villages use to be self sufficient In every way... what happened? They didn't need a government..had their own meat, vegetables, oils, cheese, made their own candles and clothes.. beautiful sheep farms.. A Dr room with nurse and even a local dentist.. They all belonged to the same church..loved being part of a community.. IT use to be the perfect lifestyle!
@@rd264 that isn't poverty, dufus. poverty is lack of basics. It's a somewhat simpl e life, but being creative , social, educated and having a good life, lots of nature , and community, are happy things. You know nothing.
It seems that some countries like Spain, Italy and Portugal want to attract people to move and populate some of the rural areas that have been abandoned by the native residents, but how can expect attract buyers if they make almost impossible to renovate and let alone build a house , with all the bureaucracy and foolish regulations by the government.
I am sorry.. But these new residents does not do these countries any good.. They are rich = prices on everything goes up = the natives can no longer afford a decent life..
I was recently reading about an English family that bought a derelict house in village and renovated it. Then, for reasons I’m not sure about, the locals turned on them and they’ve decided to sell up and leave. Having been to Portugal I found this surprising, but ‘newcomers’ are not always welcome anywhere - even if they do good things
@@andersnielsen6044 What would you have them do? Give their kin up for blood sacrifice? EVERYBODY does good things for themselves. You can't even get jobs for your own natives and you hate on those that have worked their entire lives, payed taxes and decide to move somewhere quiet :D I can only sense envy/jealous/xenophobia coming from you. This is coming from an immigrant that made effort to learn the local language, works, pays taxes, etc., so I know what I sense from you ;)
You are now witnessing the end of the western power😊😊😊 so pay attention than you can see how once mighty countries like Egypt, Italy, Iran, (Persia) Greece choked in the same greed as the western countries have been doing for the last 50+ years! 😊😊😊😂😂😂
@@highlanderNC-mr8fe Indeed it was. At the time there were 5 great powers: England, France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. These 5 small countries went all over the world and built great empires.
I visited Portugal so many times and the region i love most was the Trás-os-Montes region in the spanish border. One hell of a good cuisine and lovely people. Most of the old farmers houses are abandoned. Young people prefer the coastline around porto. They're never coming back and this is very sad. In spain we faces the same problems.
I was in Portugal for 8 months from Algarve to Almeida. My relatives are from Rio, but our name is de Almeida. That's why I wanted to see this city. Portugal is a great country❤
A great country ?? That`s why the people leave ?? Highest emmigration rate in Europe. It takes more than pretty scenery to make a great country . You traveled there , you like the country --- but that doesn`t make a country great.
True! A friend of mine is moving from Belgium to a small Italian town, just to slow down. The house costs around €18.000, with garage. There's a bakery, butcher and grocery store. It's like going 50 years back in time. I know where I will spend my next vacation 😅👍
@ms-jl6dl I heard from hearsay that Japan is inviting blacks to have children with Japanese to boost the population. I have not confirmed it, though.I was very surprised that a largely homogeneous society is now opening up to heterogeneity.
@ms-jl6dl Well, Japan is offering money to black men to have children with Japanese women to reverse population decline. The scheme might be for all immigrants though. Interesting timed.
@@ms-jl6dl Yea and who are allowing those Africans in? Why are European forces are in Africa ? Niger? Chad ? Huh ? Stop bring democracy to them and they will live with their countries. Why does France have tons of gold with 0 gold mines but Niger with hundreds of gold mines have less than a 10th of the gold reserves ? Huh ? hypocrite.
The problem in Portugal is the government and the inefficient civil service , which makes life a pain . Building costs like the rest of the EU have increased massively and its difficult to find a competent honest builder . Also outside cities , public transport has almost been stopped and shops are few and far between . Add to this all the Eu rules and regulations which do nothing but hike the prices of everything . Then there is the problem of travel to other parts of Portugal and the rest of the EU ,without a car ( and driving license) its very difficult and slow . We have taken the decision , we are selling up and leaving after nearly 20 years
99% of that is not related to EU at all. Portugal also was very poor before EU. You simply dont create jobs. Prices has not gone up because of EU but by living standards. You of course has to produce more and also to state - scgools, education, hospitals, roads, medicine, pension. You forget You get back. And I know the drill. 4 of my grandfathers siblings immigrated and after all got a life in USA and Argentina. Im from Denmark.
Portugal has been poor since their golden age, thats centuries ago. By the way, the rest of Europe is joining in on that. Rent, food and the rest is getting so expensive, prices go up. Wages do not. I am confident that if there are no changes then in 25 years the whole of europe will just be borderline poor. Being bled dry enough to keep going but greed is going so far that even in the richest european countries people can not sustain it. European and local laws do not help. Everything is made to prevent innovation and self sustainment.
The government there has been mismanaging things for untold decades. Now much of Europe is beginning to slide in the same way. It seems like a natural process, but, in reality, it is a direct consequence of elites who simply have accumulated much of the wealth and assets of a nation and simply live to ONLY enjoy a mindless hedonistic lifestyle not caring about the nation, people or its future. They are corrupt. The people are left decade after decade with less wealth and opportunities. The old stay behind and the young move to the cities or leave the nation. How to redress this before a nation is sucked dry by these elitist leeches?
Places that are empty of humans are beautiful. There are never wars there; few of the problems we cause, no pollution, unless it blows in. Ironically we all long for them in an increasingly crowded world!
Wish they had a program where they would buy back, their children who live like second-class citizens around the world, rather than opening their doors to those who bring no love but rather division. Just a thought.
@@gabrielbalbec883 The young want to move to cities for work and in many cases there is no choice as all the infrastructure is in the cities for businesses.
Travelling inland Portugal right now in my campervan. It's stunning and wild! It's pretty refreshing to be able to visit places where there are no other people around for miles, quite refreshing
Mountainous, rocky, windswept, w little arable land & natural resources means it's always been tough to make a living off the land. No wonder the leading Portuguese conquistador of Brazil, Pedro Álvares Cabral, came from this region 500+ years ago.
You're making an impression of a region vs the whole country. You should really do more research about this country's resources over the centuries before making such a dumb claim. Portugal adventuring out into the sea had nothing to do with sparse natural resources.
@@trailoffiends Yes, I've gone thru books on this, and not just on Portugal. 1st hand source, not hearsay bullsh*t hundred of years later. Ex: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo's "The true story of the conquest of New Spain", "Annals of Tlatelolco", Crónica Mexicayotl by Fernando Tezozomoc etc.... Some 2nd hand sources & 3rd renditions: Nathaniel’s Nutmeg (Giles Milton), Taste of Conquest, Rise and Fall of Three Great Cities (Michael Krondl, 2008), The Hungry Empire, How Britain's quest for Food shaped the modern world (Lizzie Collingham), For All the Tea in China (Sarah Rose, 2011). I won't bother to list more. If u can make a decent living in your native area, you're beyond dumb to risk death, starvation, diseases for years on the open, uncharted seas for uncertain rewards. When Magellan's men came back, they aged 20 years; they were hardly recognizable. Don't bs me about the "discoverers & explorers" only doing it for the sake of geographical & scientific discovery. Blocked by the Italians, Turks, and Arabs from the Silk Road, heading due west to the seas was the only alternative. And it was the spice trade thru and thru for the most part (small part was religion). There's no shame in trying to make a living, however risky. Equally, there's no need to varnish it, buddy.
@@Azuria969 According to whom and what data? lol Portugal adventured out to seek (and take over) naval commercial routes and exotic trade items. Portugal never struggled with natural resources for self-sustainance, that's BS. If you think the whole country + islands are made out of mountainous and infertile land, then you're a big fat joke.
I doubt that you would get 20,000 EUR of annual revenue from running an airbnb in that tiny house. Tourists want to go to towns that have restaurants and cafes. These are beautiful places, but restoring them would require a LOT of labor time and investment in materials. Bringing in construction materials on narrow roads may be difficult and ultimately expensive.
Given a well described ad, people will come anywhere. Treehouses, Hobbit houses; anything really. Weird sells as well as the peace and quiet city people don't realize they never get.
It's not a house, those buildings were used as storage for agricultural equipment. He wouldn't be able to get a licence to inhabit that building and making it habitable would require expanding it at a sizeable investment, but importantly would also require approval from the council which more likely than not would be denied as that plot is what's considered rural land, not to be developed, hence why it's so cheap.
In Rural Portugal, there is so much empty land left wild. If people want to habitate and cultivate they need to be able to build a property to live in. Property development should be allowed based on need not ridiculous obsolete outdated rules. So many people want smaller parcels to live on, cultivate and enjoy.
I bought 3 hectares in Serra da Estrella national park in 2009 - old Quinta with 200 olive trees & 1000 grapevines. It took 2 years to get planning permission to build house & campsite. NP planners & local Camra super supportive. Spent 1 year attempting to get local businesses to start groundwork’s, quote for solar installation, etc. I gave up as it was just too difficult to get the works started… came back to UK to work for a bit & forest fires ripped through the valley. We had a lucky escape… delays changed our plans but also saved them from going up in smoke. Best 3 years, great people & such a beautiful country. No regrets. My advice - if you are thinking of doing something similar, take your budget & double it. Take your development timeline & treble it. Good luck 👍
I thought it was the case only of the post-East-Warsaw Pact states e.g., Poland, etc. I know the "mechanism" behind it. My personal experience: to live again under a new Cesar, UE-Parlament( a touris-cycle pilgrimidge confrontation with UE-guards on AD 2015, August 6 on the way to bl.F.Jagestatter tom in Austria from London,UK; the problem: my Cross@Tshirt with ex.3;14 in Hebrew@"Solidarity" was a ...propaganda@did not allow me to enter an Exhibition "On Freedom"! I keep a record of it in my file- I did not record it as I was not prepared for such...reaction but with dumb Satan's agents paid from any UE citizen's taxes one gets such action!; the correspondence t with UE-guars Chief @also GB (I'v tested it while for a while in UK) is ....stupidity (for legal@intellectual reasons)-I've got a confrontation with such people in Poland (University,the Church, then Massmedia, and I know how the legal system works.It is a BS/"shit"(Phil 3:8) and stupid citizens who tolerate it- I spent some time to change it! Vote (not dumb) citizens to. leave UE@become free again@then ...free people will arrive and make business again.
I love this type of video ... touring different countries and 'discovering' quaint villages ... as if one traveled back in time ... thanks to u and your team ...❤
I lived out in the Portuguese country-side last summer. The people are very very poor and it is not for everyone. Not sure what kind of tourists this might attract. Yes the views are beautiful...but they do not have a monopoly on beautiful views. It is also very hot in the mid-summer months. I just do not know how this would work unless you did this as a group effor to create a special community and then you still must deal with all the red tape that goes along with purchasing property and trying to tie into utilities, build a road, transport equipment/ materials...etc.
Portugal has such a strict inheritance law that when the children go live in other parts of Europe, the house cannot be sold until all the children are found and agree to the sale. It just takes one child to disagree or to be difficult to contact. This is added by young people moving to the cities or other parts of Europe.
Really ? I did not know about it. I thought the law should be who own the house the person whose name appear on title deed. Wow what a barrier to destroy people's lives.
As a Northern European, I think a lot of Portugese natives will return once they realize what life is really life up North. Sure, the wages are higher, but so is cost of living. And there's a lot more crime, increasing demographic and religious conflict, poverty, etc. Housing is unaffordable there too, which is part of why a lot of us moved to Portugal to begin with. The grass isn't always greener, I'm afraid. They'll be back.
If it's anything like renovating in Italy, the hurdles are immense. Permitting costs are prohibitive due to all the architectural bureaucracy/approvals and concerns, civil fees of all kinds and the cost of just getting materials to the locations.
@@DoctorWonka There’s a guy who renovated a stone hovel up in the mountains somewhere in Europe and he couldn’t do it in the locales he wanted due to onerous, expensive and extremely slow moving and corrupt systems in Italy. Besides, the globalists want the plebs in tightly packed cities where they can be controlled, not living all over the countryside out of their control
My husband and I lived in Portugal for 3 years. Building costs have gone up in the last 3-4 years, and builders are almost impossible to find. We had neighbours who only visited in summer and a few times throughout the year and their builder had taken 18 months to complete a small A frame cabin (and was still not finished as of last year). We had a ruin to restore but the previous owners had done all the paperwork - there is a process involved but it is more difficult because of the language barrier. The work itself would have ended up costing us more than what we could afford (and taken a lot longer too). There is also the danger of fires to think about.
@@DoctorWonkaI don't know abt the paperwork for Portugal properties but for the Italy 1-euro houses, yes it's a lot of bureaucracy. It's not really "1 euro". 1 euro is probably the cost of the house but you have to pay many other fees like realtor's fees, taxes, land transfer fees, etc. That's just to transfer the property to you. Then when it's yours, you must renovate it within a certain period of time. At least that's what I remember from the docu that I watched re: Italian properties for sale.
Renovating using CGI. A village with no road or vehicular access. Land with no habitation licences, mains water, electricity or sewage. Sounds wonderful.
Don't forget brutally hot summers and no water. This video was taken in winter. Everything was green. Id bet things will change drastically when the summer comes. Not half as hospitable. Sadly.
Here in Canada 2.5hr is a short distance. I love Portugal after seeing so many videos on UA-cam. I hope it rebounds as I've seen quite a few channels who have bought cheap land and are making it home.
Yeah, it only takes about 7 hrs to drive north to south...Portugal has been compared to be about the size of the US state Indiana. Because of the mountains, I'm not sure how lng it would take to drive west to east...though if you are in the southern part of the country, Alentejo....quite flat, more of a 'high desert' area. Used to be lots of agriculture, cork, and olive trees. Unfortunately the previous Portuguese dictator, Antonio Salazar, planted eucalyptus trees (fast growers) but easy to burn as well. The eucalyptus trees release a toxin in the air when thy burn. Cork doesn't burn at all....people who have land should try to plant cork if they can. You could get a harvest every 9 years.
How hard to get an small farm in Portugal 🇵🇹 and plant vines and cork trees 🌳, do need permit to anything and everything when planting a tree or putting an post in or building an woodshed?
@@JS-jh4cy many small farms already have vines growing and fruit trees too. I think the cork needs the warmer temps of Alentejo and Algarve though. Haven't seen too many ppl mention cork trees in the north part of PT. PT has strict building codes, wanting to maintain the historical 'frame' of original house...so anything that changes the walls/windows, roof, etc. Unfortunately I have heard folks say that PT won't give habitation license if work isnt performed by certified builder...thus no DIY unless you are certified in PT. Seems to run contrary to everything that I've seen on YT...but it must be that they dont know the Portuguese language to read the rules...and when autotranslated...ppl arent getting the real story.
Dude, check your data! Rio de Janeiro (state): 43.910 km² Portugal: 92.152 km² It's not a large country. But it's more than two times the size of the state Rio de Janeiro
Difficult terrain, lack of services, high taxes and bureaucracy, among highest in Europe, little to no support for the local development. When housing is more affordable for a foreigner than a local, you know something is wrong. Civilizations come and go, you know.
Thank you so much for this exploration. I spent a couple of years researching the country (even Madeira and the Azores), so it's great to see aspects I haven't learned about and your thoughts.
I love that abandoned village w the 12 houses. It would be fun to have that, build it up like an old Roman village or something and have events there a few times a year and the rest of the time use it for artists and musicians.
25+ years ago housing was extremely cheap compared to more northern standards. Now you wonder why not more fugitives start developing their lives in rural peaceful portugal. (instead of trying in overcrowded cities elswhere) Yes I know they want modern lives with high wages but hapiness can be found in other ways too.
As a hungarian I would love to get into revitalizing an old house in Portugal as a vacation home if there was a way to citizenship with that... but if I recall correctly you need to buy expensive property to have a shot at that... I think it was called golden visa or something. How nice would it be to renovate something old and abandoned with less money and use it in the family to spend nice vacations there.... great vid btw
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE! I would LOVE to know when those houses were built. They look like they've been standing for CENTURIES, all the way back to the Middle Ages!
Any rural location is still better the unrelenting hell of life in any city on Earth. Peace and tranquility equals quality of life, which requires no high standard of living.
I love Portugal so much, I lived there for a few months but never got to see as much of the country as I'd have liked. I just couldn't make a living there, otherwise I'd have stayed. Perhaps one day, when I don't need to, I'll return ❤️
I agree. I've been to Portugal and loved it. But with my work I doubt I'd make a living there. I wish I could. I'd move there immediately. Maybe if I win the lotto or wherever.
We Are now traveling through Portugal to find a place to make home, we are now in the central area, we drive to the amazing lands but we find it hard to find a peace of land with abounded home (everything looks more expensive then we think it would be, or we looking not good enough).. We already no we ❤portugal, its so pure and bold.
Would be helpful if their immigration policies allowed for people to move there easier. As an Australian, I have to spend a fortune on property just to get a leg in.
Not really....d7 visa only requires passive income from retirement acct and proof of funds. D8 is remote worker visa. D7 requires a 12 month lease or a deed to a property. D8 visa you just have to show your proof of remote job and the amount needed for monthly living (they have a set amount). You don't have to have the lease for remote worker visa. It's easier to get with fewer requirements but the amount of monthly income you need to prove that you are earning is much higher than a D7.
I went to Portugal last year in july, turist time, I loved the people, so simple, sweet, beautiful, I only want to return! is so special, beautiful, special!!!! Not so modern! Is sad that empty villages and also in other countries. No new generations, no children. Thanks for this interesting report!!! It would be wonderful if you organize a trip to Portugal with many of us in the world tbat want to go again!
Fascinating, thanks. I've been reading the Richard Sharpe novels about the Napoleonic war and a few are set in the mountains of Portugal. Really helped me visualise them.
In France, Italy, Spain, many small villages are abandoned because the population was too small to maintain basic services. Italy especially has a a signed villages because earthquakes have wiped out or damaged villages, killing or injuring too many of the residents.
I now have a place I can plan on moving to when SHTF. I might check into some of these options now. I am a fan of Fatima, the apparitions of Mary in 1917. I would feel comfortable in that blessed country.
The reason the villages are empty has roots in the Methuen Treaty (1703-1836) that Portugal signed with England to not have an Industrial Revolution in exchange of coastal naval protection. Now, because they did not have an industrialization boom, people can't make a living as traders and merchants anymore.
@@Deathbytroll I disagree. All European countries had an Industrial Revolution, except Portugal. If there had been one, the young could be working today remotely from the comfort of their countryside house or opening factories and plants or IT offices in inner Portugal. They wouldn't have fled massively to Australia. Portugal is the #1 provider of immigrants in the European community. They work as babysitters, bricklayers and other low-income professions in Switzerland, Germany, etc. Just like Bulgarians work like bricklayers and plumbers in other developed European countries.
@@introsig7696 Interesting point. I know about inner Spain. I saw on TV small towns in central Spain with 15 residents only. But I do not know what the situation is like in Italy. When I was in high school (decades ago), I remember hearing that Italy's upper half is developed and Italy's lower half is underdeveloped. But I don't think the situation in Italy is as severe as it is Portugal. Italy has a car industry and is Europe's reference for design. Maybe Italians do know how to gain scale or market internationally. Portugal has no blender to sell. But they are moving. They are opening IT offices in the countryside inviting Brazilians to live and work there. The problem is that these places do not have a modern healthcare infrastructure or leisure facilities or train connections to become attractive.
1. empires have always made 'economic', 'defense' and 'peace' pacts and laws and agreements to exploit, repress, control and manipulate resources and subject peoples to their political will, but how likely and effective would a pact be in addressing an industrial revolution? How could a pact implement such an agreement? 2. look for a better explanation for why Portugals trade and merchants are up a creek.
It's funny to see how people in Europe believe that in this very Europe there are empty and sparsely populated places. I live in the Far East of Russia. This is really a sparsely populated place from which the population is leaving. Some regions have lost half of their population over the past 20-30 years. I live in Primorsky Krai. It is 2 times the size of the whole of Portugal, but only 1.5 million people live here. Moreover, most of them are in Vladivostok and a couple of other large cities. For me, a 250 km trip to visit relatives is considered close. My grandfather's house is on the outskirts of the village. Behind it there is just forest for hundreds of kilometers. There are sections of the road where for 50-100 km the road is just forest, there are no villages, gas stations, nothing, just wild nature. Primorsky Krai is considered a fairly populated region. There is also, say, the Magadan region. It is 4 times larger than the Primorsky Territory. 8 times larger than Portugal. Now less than 150,000 people live there. There are a lot of empty small towns there. And in those cities that still have a significant part of the houses abandoned. You can buy a home for 0 money. Moreover, you can easily settle somewhere there and no one will care.
@@davidcollin1436 No, it’s not that cold in the Primorsky Territory. The climate is just harsh. One year there may be a drought, and another it rains all summer. In winter, it can be very warm one year - 5, for example, and maybe -30 Celsius on the coast another year. The climate in this region is not constant, it greatly depends on what will prevail. Warm air bringing snow and rain from the sea or cold and dry wind in winter from the north, which becomes hot and scorching in summer. For reference, Primorye is located in the subtropics. About the same latitude as France. And in Magadan, yes, it’s cold. Very cold. It’s not absolutely bloody cold like in Yakutia, it’s a little warmer due to the proximity of the sea.
@@rd264 OK. Summer begins at the end of May, beginning of June. It's getting warm. The weather is usually cloudy and foggy. There may be 1-2 sunny days per month. Temperature is about 15-25 Celsius. At the end of July, beginning of August the weather changes. It will be warm and sunny until mid-September. There is a nuance. There will be several typhoons in the summer. They could just be heavy rain and wind. Sometimes a typhoon washes something away somewhere. There was a road, and now there is a river. Also, the amount of precipitation may decrease sharply. And it won't rain for a month. And then the typhoon comes... In winter, a typhoon brings snow, ice, and warm weather. An anticyclone may come and it will be very cold and very windy. You can see what the consequences of a strong typhoon look like in winter. You need to google "ice rain Vladivostok" "Ледяной дождь Владивосток" The result. The weather is very changeable and fickle. Every year something new happens. And typhoons do not allow you to relax. Primorsky Krai is not the best place to live. Previously, this territory was considered as a place for exiles. During the Soviet Union, local residents were paid more, as they were considered to live in difficult conditions comparable to the far north.
Had they kept the tax break for retirees, I would have happily retired there and rebuilt an old house. Well, not an option anymore… Maybe Portugal will one day resort to what some Italian villages are doing, selling houses for 1€ in order to attract people.
@@terywetherlow7970 For one Euro, or rather Franc in 1995, pre-Euro? If so, it’s usually done under the condition that the new owner renovate the castle. And then we are talking six figures easy…
@@MajorWolf72 I haven't seen or heard of Margaret since as I moved from the town not to long after. She and her kids now grown and Husband who may be deceased tbh were In Paris frequently had a place on Rue de Seine in time period that I knew them. I believe I saw a video of folks who took on the same adventure. It made me think of her & fam.
I think that land and houses are the best investment. When I was a kid, I went to summer camp in Canada for 2 months and this would have been 1984 and houses in this little town would sell for 6,000 - 8,000 CAD. Nowadays if you look online those prices are 600,000 - 800,000 CAD in other words, the value has gone up 100x in just 40 years. No other investment quite like it because it's not just about asset appreciation but regular income stream. But those prices in Portugal are very interesting, and it's only a matter of time before they go up.
These price may never go up since locals are moving away. Its become unbearable hot in spring/summer. All the rivers have dried out over the years. There is deserted areas like this in the middle of spain too for the same reason. Even italy
@@100millioneuros Anywhere you have change, you have opportunity. Right now we have an energy crisis in Europe and if you can find cheap land in the middle of Spain, that would be the perfect place to set up a photovoltaics operation because desert areas get more sunlight. I wrote a book about The Future of Photovoltaics in Europe in 2013 and in it I showed that Spain and Malta have the best prospects for energy independence because of the combination of climate and average land prices. In Spain and Malta, it's not even necessary to get huge loans because the income stream starts immediately, with an ROI of 7 years. Also, a lot has changed since I wrote that book and the newer solar panels are so efficient that you can cover 80% of the average home's energy needs (except heating) by using just 30% of its roof area! So, while some may see videos like this and be sad, all I see is opportunities!
Great video. The big cities in Portugal are expensive, home prices look similar to the US. The water surrounding the village wall is called a moat in English. . A polite word for animal poop is dung. Horses or cow dung. 😊What a beautiful country.
From $7K to $45K that's the minimum range of profit return every week I thinks it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family.
That's really interesting! I've been thinking about investing in digital currencies lately but wondering how to do it, do anyone have any thought on that?
To obtain financial freedom, one must either be a business owner, an investor or both, generating passive income particullarly on a weekly or monthly basis. That's the key to living financially stable....
I see cheaper almost ready to move into properties in some areas of Italy...Portugal has many empty delapidated properties that'll cost a small fortune to refurbish. Competent builders are also hard to find and I think that Portugal has become quite expensive now. You may find a cheap house, but it may not have a habitation licence or have an urban article that you can live in without getting permission from the local camera/council.
Houses built before 1951 don´t need habitacional license....the urban and rural articles its another matter you can´t buil or rebuild a habitable house in a rural article piece of land ,,,as the name said it´s only allowed to use it for agricultural purposes...of course to rebuild a ruin of a stone house will cost a lot of money if you want to be comfortable and up to date with modern life...besides legalization of the house in the municipality with a a proper archictetural project with all modern rules of construcion .there are good examples of that like Mr and Mrs Adventures Nearby Veggies The Newbies The Scotts etc...
Avoid places where you have to "ask permission" every time you want to do even the most mundane of things. If that's the starting point, I can guarantee it will only be getting worse.
My parent's birthplace is in nearby Galicia and Asturias, in Spain. Same sad story. When I visited the place, always on summer, I fantasize about living there. But I can't imagine passing a whole winter, far from everyone. There's a reason this paradise is getting empty.
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just for you guys , To have someone with who gonna celabrete diversity
It's not correct English to say 'very little habituated'. You'd say 'sparsely populated' or 'has a low population'.
@@markkeogh18
Maybe he meant to say very few inhabitants.
Will you welcome an African to live in the village?
@@bartsimpson8616 no need and I hope your joking
In my view, there's nothing "sad" about parts of a country being "empty": Given the TRULY SAD REALITY of the "New" "Normal", I'd rather live in "empty" places in which one can lead a nice, slow and meaningful LIFE in the company of like-minded human beings, away from the maddening global crowds of predators 🙃
Exactly, True
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Me too
Agreed. This is yet another amazing thing about Portugal.
Empty, quiet, wilderness, peaceful. Sounds like paradise to me. Wish my country was like that
Will not take long and the next generations will say the same about the Western world.
Within 2 years your country will be empty....!
Which country is yours?
I would avoid the tourist infested green part of the map. People have been living in the red part and also over the border in Spain, which is similar, for hundreds of years. They live simply and meet their own needs, and don't follow the over-consumptive lifestyle of the west. Imagine. Clean water, clean air, no roads full of traffic noise and fumes, fresh locally-grown food, no unhealthy junk food, no bars and discos, no touristy boutiques and shopping malls full of everything no one really needs, no surfers, no loud 'music', no half-dressed rowdy drunken visitors, no litter on the streets, no tourists treating your villages as a playground...what could be better?
@@anncoffey8375That's anathema to the woke West
As a misanthrope living in Portugal, empty is good. It's as empty as the Scottish Highlands where I used to live, but with a fantastic climate!
Bless you brother. Many people would love to be in your shoes.
Wonderful
40 degrees Celsius is not fantastic at all!
I know, I feel bad when they make videos about these places. They should not publicize those. Next thing you’ll have hoards of people moving there.
@@ridinwithjake perhaps --- its a lovely but empty location. few care for that isolation except vactioners..
Love the spirit and imagination of the guy buying a village to restore and encourage agritourism. Good luck, would love to visit.
A company bought a village for 5M euros and transformed it in a touristic resort. Now it's abandoned. Get a grip. Tourists want night life, restaurants, entertainment. And we don't want our villages transformed into theme parks.
I like that it was a Portuguese guy that bought that village and is renovating it for some agro-tourism. To him, I will say thank you Sir for saving an old historic Portuguese village. My grandparents lived in one of those old villages and I have the most wonderful memories of going there and loving their old stone little village, where the roads were also made of large stones, and every single experience I had of the country life. To me those stone homes always had a peculiar smell of yeast & flour raising for fresh bread everyday… something I discovered when I started making bread myself. Please Sir keep saving more old villages!
These stone villages should all be saved and taken care. They are old, historic, they tell us a lot of the peasant way of living, a hard way of living yes, but also a good one near the beautiful and healthy nature. These villages need to be preserved for the future. And the Portuguese government should be the first one to engage on their saving and preservation for the country and for the Portuguese.
Agro-tourism can help saving these wonderful historic villages for the future.
One village should be a live museum showing the peasant way of living and their traditional rural craftsmanships. Teach the kids how bread, cheese, baskets, rag blankets, etc were once made. Old villages and peasant life in the old way should be preserve. Not just palaces & castles… Peasant Villages too!
Its NOT EMPTY but full of wildlife and nature--great !
yes! and the salvation of the European Lynx, among others.
Exactly
More like full of non-wild eucalyptus causing fires ;)
A desolation... a haunt of jackals. Yeah.... so great.
I bought a small house in an Alentejo village (south of Portugal). Almost 1000 m2 of land and a well... No regrets :)
Hwo to get house to buy in village
How much did it cost?
And Im sure can make a living there
Wie kann man dort ein Haus kaufen ? Und wieviel kosten diese ?
You have to tell the price so people wont be curious mam 😂
Beautiful, people of small villages want to live in big city, people from big city want peace of small village
I bought a house in portugal in a hamlet for the tranquility of the countryside.
Planted dozens of fruit and olive trees. I wouldn't exchange it for City living.
get a job
Brush your teeth.
Smart man.
@@MrRealAmericanvalueshe has work, a job. And appears to be happy. Are you also happy with your life?
How much did you pay for that?
There's a reason it's so empty. No way to make a living. Even the Portughese can't make it and have to move away.
Of course. Same all over rural Europe - if the telecommunications companies had the motivation to invest in these places it might be possible to repopulate them. And why not let refugees who know how to farm and be self-sufficient settle there? Could be a salvation for people who just want to escape war but are not interested in corporate life and digitalisation.
@@elledix3575 No, we have excellent internet - €45 unlimited mobile broadband that streams 1080 no problem. The issue is quality of life for the people who can work remote. If you can earn €2000 a month you can live well anywhere in Portugal - so why live in a schist house with few amenities and few neighbors?
Well, land is capital :D
@@elledix3575 Because Europe is not the worlds dumping ground.
@@elledix3575 because there aren't any
I worked in Galicia, Spain in the mid-1990s, and would visit Porto, and parts of eastern and northern Portugal. Most of the country was very sparcely populated then also. It was scenic, but mostly empty. Many abandoned homes, farms, and small businesses scattered everywhere.
Brazilian protest song which says" turning with your back to the countryside will not make this country a good place to live, apparently also applies to its former motherland. ua-cam.com/video/Yx37B9l0hTY/v-deo.htmlsi=Vvy1V4kj690KNNSi
THIS is what happens when the women start taking birth control,
stop having babies in favor of education and careers.
It's a form of SUICIDE!
This is happening in Japan, China (albeit slowly) and other high-tech
countries whose women value education and careers over old-fashioned
family life.
Idiot. Even in the mid 90s, Portugal was a dynamic country. As to empty places, how lucky are those who still have them !
It's the end of the world.
@@gschmidt9594 It's closer than it was yesterday.
The interior of Portugal is stunningly beautiful...we love it here, there are great schools, there is good public transport, loads of small village shops & mobile vans, everyone grows veg & shares.
One thing is very true - we need more people!
So, we live here & if you are reading this, maybe you are considering a move, so here is a brief take...
There are hundreds of properties of all types for sale - you need to visit as not much is online & people really want to sell to people they appreciate!
Note, there are planning easements in place dependent on how much land you have, whether in National Parks etc that are worth investigating.
Not all of Portugal is hot! We are in Guarda region at 868 metres & it gets cold in winter!! The climate here is like the UK but with two months shorn off winter & added on as glorious summer...with fires a present danger.
Castelo Branco, not far away, is searing hot by comparison with Guarda.
Water must be your obsession...boreholes are expensive & you'll need more than one can provide. They are not reliable enough to be your only source.
All the best from @HowardsPortugal
We recently purchased a small farm, fruit trees, olive, and a small vinyard in a small village in central portugal near A13 toll road. We just spent 75 days there and have our 4 bedroom 2 bath house completely set up and comfortable and have just returned to the US. The area is very inexpensive and one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen. The small farm villages local population is so welcoming and helpful. Any one considering a move should explore the real rural portugal and experience life at its best.
Hang in there - the AI revolution coming at us like a freight train is going to change EVERYTHING. People will be able to make good livings from their home computer from anywhere (including Antarctica). Anywhere you can get StarLink satellite connections. People need to move out of the cities which are rapidly becoming just too crowded. With Amazon deliveries being global, that opens up even the most rural area to commerce and living needs. While the AI will replace a LOT of people's jobs, it will open up opportunities galore to anyone paying a bit of attention.
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@@sarahdeshay1394 Indeed. Totally agree. I live in Alentejo but used to own a place just off a junction of the A13. If you obsess about speaking English and things like that then inland Portugal won't be for you. But if you want to live in the country and get on with your neighbours (which means learning at least the minimum amount of Portuguese to be polite) than it's a really, really nice place to live. And not at all expensive. And certainly not subject to the price rises that have affected Lisbon.
People are helpful and genuine. And it's a really safe place to live, too. Great for children.
What a beautiful way to live. There are a lot of people seeking this kind of peace and tranquility. Folks wanting to live life simply and living off the land sharing and enjoying a real community. I myself would love to live there
Portugal is not empty.
By comparison, the US is a lot more empty. Portugal's population density is about 110 people per square kilometer, while population density of the US is about 36 people per square kilometer.
Canada is even more empty at just 4 people per square kilometer.
South Africa is around 50 people per square kilometer.
You wouldn't say so though as most live in dense cities.
There are vast stretches of uninhabited land.
Unfortunately due to toxi fertilizers and bad rural farming methods a lot of tribal land has become infertile and people don't have the patience or skill to rehabilitate the land.
Most of Canada is not really inhabitable, rocks or frozen tundra.
@@samewalt6486 Exactly. It's a bad comparison.
That's a stupid comparison. The vast majority of Canadians live within 60km of the border with the us
Entire population of world including the teeming millions of India China can be comfortably housed in a single large state day state of Texas
I lived in Portugal in the south of Nazare from 1998 for several years with my family. What a great country, culture and people. You will always be in my heart. 😘
From videos I've seen, Portugal's archaic and complex laws and the inefficient government bureaucracy are the biggest impediments to buying property and building homes there.
Sounds like uk. We bought in portugal and it was straightforward; and like everywhere it takes time to understand how things are done there.
sounds like Mercer County, NJ.
@@dianewassell7693 if it takes long time to understand how the local bureaucracy works, it means it's inefficient, slow and expensive, that's why nobody lives there. One can work everything out in half in hour in Estonia and everything can be done online.
Villages use to be self sufficient In every way... what happened?
They didn't need a government..had their own meat, vegetables, oils, cheese, made their own candles and clothes.. beautiful sheep farms..
A Dr room with nurse and even a local dentist..
They all belonged to the same church..loved being part of a community..
IT use to be the perfect lifestyle!
life was dull and poor, poverty is boring. romanticise it, go ahead/1
@@rd264 that isn't poverty, dufus. poverty is lack of basics. It's a somewhat simpl e life, but being creative , social, educated and having a good life, lots of nature , and community, are happy things. You know nothing.
Northern Portugal is heaven. I used to live there
Why did you leave? How long did you live there? Any suggestions for me? Pick your favorite for me to stay. 1 year. Thanks 🧡 if you time to respond. 🎉
@@daniellescott6701 Don't come. We are a poor country. You won't like it.
@@MariaDiazskn How does it's heaven to don't come. I am poor so perfect. Thankyou for the information.
@@MariaDiazskn Viana do Castillias. Or Braga? Spelling may be wrong. Those are where I am thinking.
A great place to live no pubs, no trouble and good for a peaceful, simple, quiet life
It seems that some countries like Spain, Italy and Portugal want to attract people to move and populate some of the rural areas that have been abandoned by the native residents, but how can expect attract buyers if they make almost impossible to renovate and let alone build a house , with all the bureaucracy and foolish regulations by the government.
It's purposeful. The elites in Brussels don't want ppl having an escape route from their 15 minute cities
I am sorry.. But these new residents does not do these countries any good.. They are rich = prices on everything goes up = the natives can no longer afford a decent life..
I was recently reading about an English family that bought a derelict house in village and renovated it. Then, for reasons I’m not sure about, the locals turned on them and they’ve decided to sell up and leave. Having been to Portugal I found this surprising, but ‘newcomers’ are not always welcome anywhere - even if they do good things
@@Robert-A-R They do NOT do good things to anyone but themselfes!
@@andersnielsen6044
What would you have them do? Give their kin up for blood sacrifice? EVERYBODY does good things for themselves.
You can't even get jobs for your own natives and you hate on those that have worked their entire lives, payed taxes and decide to move somewhere quiet :D
I can only sense envy/jealous/xenophobia coming from you.
This is coming from an immigrant that made effort to learn the local language, works, pays taxes, etc., so I know what I sense from you ;)
A few sheeps, a few donkeys, some chickens, vegetable garden, two guard dogs.....
Just dreaming. Such beautiful villages.
Hard to believe Portugal was a world power.
turkey, spain, portugal, jews - all rich from stealing and trade but no innovation whatsoever.
You are now witnessing the end of the western power😊😊😊 so pay attention than you can see how once mighty countries like Egypt, Italy, Iran, (Persia) Greece choked in the same greed as the western countries have been doing for the last 50+ years!
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It certainly was. It has only left poor colonies, as did Spain.
It was a massive power.
@@highlanderNC-mr8fe Indeed it was.
At the time there were 5 great powers: England, France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.
These 5 small countries went all over the world and built great empires.
I visited Portugal so many times and the region i love most was the Trás-os-Montes region in the spanish border. One hell of a good cuisine and lovely people. Most of the old farmers houses are abandoned. Young people prefer the coastline around porto. They're never coming back and this is very sad. In spain we faces the same problems.
Great video! Yes there are lots of deserted villages in my country. The young generation prefer the cities or go abroad.
its not sad.
I was in Portugal for 8 months from Algarve to Almeida. My relatives are from Rio, but our name is de Almeida. That's why I wanted to see this city.
Portugal is a great country❤
My mother's maiden surname is Almeida. My father's surname Azavedo.
A great country ?? That`s why the people leave ?? Highest emmigration rate in Europe. It takes more than pretty scenery to make a great country . You traveled there , you like the country --- but that doesn`t make a country great.
@@seeadler3233It depends on what expectations and priorities you have
@@seeadler3233 In many aspects, yes, it's a great country. No country is perfect.
@@Sergiovision Using your criteria ( lack of criteria and lack of reason ) EVERY country would qualify as " great " .
What a beautiful village. Thank you for bringing it to us.
Portugal, Italy and Japan have whole villages with houses unoccupied.
True! A friend of mine is moving from Belgium to a small Italian town, just to slow down. The house costs around €18.000, with garage. There's a bakery, butcher and grocery store. It's like going 50 years back in time.
I know where I will spend my next vacation 😅👍
All Europan countries are like that. We are dying out and being replaced with Africans.
@ms-jl6dl I heard from hearsay that Japan is inviting blacks to have children with Japanese to boost the population. I have not confirmed it, though.I was very surprised that a largely homogeneous society is now opening up to heterogeneity.
@ms-jl6dl Well, Japan is offering money to black men to have children with Japanese women to reverse population decline. The scheme might be for all immigrants though. Interesting timed.
@@ms-jl6dl Yea and who are allowing those Africans in? Why are European forces are in Africa ? Niger? Chad ? Huh ? Stop bring democracy to them and they will live with their countries.
Why does France have tons of gold with 0 gold mines but Niger with hundreds of gold mines have less than a 10th of the gold reserves ? Huh ? hypocrite.
The problem in Portugal is the government and the inefficient civil service , which makes life a pain . Building costs like the rest of the EU have increased massively and its difficult to find a competent honest builder . Also outside cities , public transport has almost been stopped and shops are few and far between . Add to this all the Eu rules and regulations which do nothing but hike the prices of everything . Then there is the problem of travel to other parts of Portugal and the rest of the EU ,without a car ( and driving license) its very difficult and slow .
We have taken the decision , we are selling up and leaving after nearly 20 years
How about Uber ?
99% of that is not related to EU at all.
Portugal also was very poor before EU. You simply dont create jobs.
Prices has not gone up because of EU but by living standards. You of course has to produce more and also to state - scgools, education, hospitals, roads, medicine, pension. You forget You get back.
And I know the drill. 4 of my grandfathers siblings immigrated and after all got a life in USA and Argentina.
Im from Denmark.
Portugal has been poor since their golden age, thats centuries ago. By the way, the rest of Europe is joining in on that. Rent, food and the rest is getting so expensive, prices go up. Wages do not. I am confident that if there are no changes then in 25 years the whole of europe will just be borderline poor. Being bled dry enough to keep going but greed is going so far that even in the richest european countries people can not sustain it. European and local laws do not help. Everything is made to prevent innovation and self sustainment.
The government there has been mismanaging things for untold decades. Now much of Europe is beginning to slide in the same way. It seems like a natural process, but, in reality, it is a direct consequence of elites who simply have accumulated much of the wealth and assets of a nation and simply live to ONLY enjoy a mindless hedonistic lifestyle not caring about the nation, people or its future. They are corrupt. The people are left decade after decade with less wealth and opportunities. The old stay behind and the young move to the cities or leave the nation. How to redress this before a nation is sucked dry by these elitist leeches?
where are you going?
Absolutely stunning. Wow. I love it all.
Places that are empty of humans are beautiful. There are never wars there; few of the problems we cause, no pollution, unless it blows in. Ironically we all long for them in an increasingly crowded world!
For local wars search Wikipedia etc for " Wellington".
Go live there and find out.
@@ms-jl6dl sour much
Try living there and see when you have no electric power, no running water, no waste collectors, all the "beauty" will come to nightmare.
Reality check: You mean a DECREASINGLY crowded world.
Beautifully sad. The man buying the village to make a tourist destination sound great. Looking forward to seeing what he builds.
Nothing. It happened with others and they are abandoned.
the place is already built.
Wish they had a program where they would buy back, their children who live like second-class citizens around the world, rather than opening their doors to those who bring no love but rather division. Just a thought.
For God's sake, portugal IS a rich country by world standards. Most portuguese don't "live like second class citizens around the world".
@@gabrielbalbec883 The young want to move to cities for work and in many cases there is no choice as all the infrastructure is in the cities for businesses.
Travelling inland Portugal right now in my campervan. It's stunning and wild! It's pretty refreshing to be able to visit places where there are no other people around for miles, quite refreshing
Mountainous, rocky, windswept, w little arable land & natural resources means it's always been tough to make a living off the land. No wonder the leading Portuguese conquistador of Brazil, Pedro Álvares Cabral, came from this region 500+ years ago.
You're making an impression of a region vs the whole country. You should really do more research about this country's resources over the centuries before making such a dumb claim. Portugal adventuring out into the sea had nothing to do with sparse natural resources.
@@trailoffiends Yes, I've gone thru books on this, and not just on Portugal. 1st hand source, not hearsay bullsh*t hundred of years later. Ex: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo's "The true story of the conquest of New Spain", "Annals of Tlatelolco", Crónica Mexicayotl by Fernando Tezozomoc etc.... Some 2nd hand sources & 3rd renditions: Nathaniel’s Nutmeg (Giles Milton), Taste of Conquest, Rise and Fall of Three Great Cities (Michael Krondl, 2008), The Hungry Empire, How Britain's quest for Food shaped the modern world (Lizzie Collingham), For All the Tea in China (Sarah Rose, 2011). I won't bother to list more.
If u can make a decent living in your native area, you're beyond dumb to risk death, starvation, diseases for years on the open, uncharted seas for uncertain rewards. When Magellan's men came back, they aged 20 years; they were hardly recognizable. Don't bs me about the "discoverers & explorers" only doing it for the sake of geographical & scientific discovery. Blocked by the Italians, Turks, and Arabs from the Silk Road, heading due west to the seas was the only alternative. And it was the spice trade thru and thru for the most part (small part was religion).
There's no shame in trying to make a living, however risky. Equally, there's no need to varnish it, buddy.
yes yes it did, quit lying
@@Azuria969 According to whom and what data? lol Portugal adventured out to seek (and take over) naval commercial routes and exotic trade items. Portugal never struggled with natural resources for self-sustainance, that's BS.
If you think the whole country + islands are made out of mountainous and infertile land, then you're a big fat joke.
Interior Portugal is gem.
Beautiful views
Your commentary is good in every sense, bravo, mate
I doubt that you would get 20,000 EUR of annual revenue from running an airbnb in that tiny house. Tourists want to go to towns that have restaurants and cafes.
These are beautiful places, but restoring them would require a LOT of labor time and investment in materials. Bringing in construction materials on narrow roads may be difficult and ultimately expensive.
Given a well described ad, people will come anywhere. Treehouses, Hobbit houses; anything really. Weird sells as well as the peace and quiet city people don't realize they never get.
@@signalfire6 Yes but people only see a fraction of all the adds out there.
And if your social credit score is low, ppl won't be able to travel there.
It's not a house, those buildings were used as storage for agricultural equipment. He wouldn't be able to get a licence to inhabit that building and making it habitable would require expanding it at a sizeable investment, but importantly would also require approval from the council which more likely than not would be denied as that plot is what's considered rural land, not to be developed, hence why it's so cheap.
In Rural Portugal, there is so much empty land left wild. If people want to habitate and cultivate they need to be able to build a property to live in. Property development should be allowed based on need not ridiculous obsolete outdated rules. So many people want smaller parcels to live on, cultivate and enjoy.
If you have more than 10ha & are outside national parks, there are planning easements that are worth looking into...
@@howardsportugal Thanks for sharing that, I will continue to do further research.
I bought 3 hectares in Serra da Estrella national park in 2009 - old Quinta with 200 olive trees & 1000 grapevines. It took 2 years to get planning permission to build house & campsite. NP planners & local Camra super supportive. Spent 1 year attempting to get local businesses to start groundwork’s, quote for solar installation, etc. I gave up as it was just too difficult to get the works started… came back to UK to work for a bit & forest fires ripped through the valley. We had a lucky escape… delays changed our plans but also saved them from going up in smoke. Best 3 years, great people & such a beautiful country. No regrets.
My advice - if you are thinking of doing something similar, take your budget & double it. Take your development timeline & treble it. Good luck 👍
Yes, but Klaus Schwab and friends don't want you out there, they want you in a 15 minute city where you can be Controlled. and receive your injections
That a beautiful little town you are visiting there. Gorgeous landscaping, also. I enjoy your videos.
We travelled to Azores last month. I fell in love with these islands.
I fondly remember visiting, a few years ago, Almeida and the Serra da Estrela. Great to see them featured in your video🙂
No jobs, no decent housing. No future
Most young people leave Portugal and they build other countries and nothing gets done at home..
yes, working for wolt, uber or of. what a dream that is..
Yes, this is happening in Italy as well. Only billionaires can afford to buy and renovate a small farm or village
The same in Greece!
I thought it was the case only of the post-East-Warsaw Pact states e.g., Poland, etc. I know the "mechanism" behind it. My personal experience: to live again under a new Cesar, UE-Parlament( a touris-cycle pilgrimidge confrontation with UE-guards on AD 2015, August 6 on the way to bl.F.Jagestatter tom in Austria from London,UK; the problem: my Cross@Tshirt with ex.3;14 in Hebrew@"Solidarity" was a ...propaganda@did not allow me to enter an Exhibition "On Freedom"! I keep a record of it in my file- I did not record it as I was not prepared for such...reaction but with dumb Satan's agents paid from any UE citizen's taxes one gets such action!; the correspondence t with UE-guars Chief @also GB (I'v tested it while for a while in UK) is ....stupidity (for legal@intellectual reasons)-I've got a confrontation with such people in Poland (University,the Church, then Massmedia, and I know how the legal system works.It is a BS/"shit"(Phil 3:8) and stupid citizens who tolerate it- I spent some time to change it! Vote (not dumb) citizens to. leave UE@become free again@then ...free people will arrive and make business again.
Sounds like Canada.
I love this type of video ... touring different countries and 'discovering' quaint villages ... as if one traveled back in time ... thanks to u and your team ...❤
I lived out in the Portuguese country-side last summer. The people are very very poor and it is not for everyone. Not sure what kind of tourists this might attract. Yes the views are beautiful...but they do not have a monopoly on beautiful views. It is also very hot in the mid-summer months. I just do not know how this would work unless you did this as a group effor to create a special community and then you still must deal with all the red tape that goes along with purchasing property and trying to tie into utilities, build a road, transport equipment/ materials...etc.
There is more to life than a pretty view.
We don't want to attract anybody. Go away!
1,000's of vids. on how "hot" it is; what I NEED to know is HUMIDITY. That's the killer.
Portugal is lovely.
Portugal has such a strict inheritance law that when the children go live in other parts of Europe, the house cannot be sold until all the children are found and agree to the sale. It just takes one child to disagree or to be difficult to contact. This is added by young people moving to the cities or other parts of Europe.
What! Of course everyone must agree in all countries unless a court says different
Same in Spain
Same in France.
Same in most countries.
Really ? I did not know about it. I thought the law should be who own the house the person whose name appear on title deed.
Wow what a barrier to destroy people's lives.
As a Northern European, I think a lot of Portugese natives will return once they realize what life is really life up North. Sure, the wages are higher, but so is cost of living. And there's a lot more crime, increasing demographic and religious conflict, poverty, etc. Housing is unaffordable there too, which is part of why a lot of us moved to Portugal to begin with. The grass isn't always greener, I'm afraid. They'll be back.
Far out.
portugal housing is unaffordable and with less wages
It’s pretty nice up north actually. Great quality of life if you’re educated.
“Northern European”? Portugal isn’t in Europe’s north!
European problems make us Africans rejoice...the crimes Portuguese committed against Africa..
Those remote places in Portugal are real jewels. I truly love Portugal and Portuguese people. Um grande abrazo da Francia.
Very good video! I enjoyed leaning a little bit about Portugal and seeing its beautiful scenery. Thank you! New sub.
If it's anything like renovating in Italy, the hurdles are immense. Permitting costs are prohibitive due to all the architectural bureaucracy/approvals and concerns, civil fees of all kinds and the cost of just getting materials to the locations.
It’s all a trap on purpose..
Is there really a lot of bureaucratic red tape to go through when restoring these places?
@@DoctorWonka There’s a guy who renovated a stone hovel up in the mountains somewhere in Europe and he couldn’t do it in the locales he wanted due to onerous, expensive and extremely slow moving and corrupt systems in Italy. Besides, the globalists want the plebs in tightly packed cities where they can be controlled, not living all over the countryside out of their control
My husband and I lived in Portugal for 3 years. Building costs have gone up in the last 3-4 years, and builders are almost impossible to find. We had neighbours who only visited in summer and a few times throughout the year and their builder had taken 18 months to complete a small A frame cabin (and was still not finished as of last year). We had a ruin to restore but the previous owners had done all the paperwork - there is a process involved but it is more difficult because of the language barrier. The work itself would have ended up costing us more than what we could afford (and taken a lot longer too). There is also the danger of fires to think about.
@@DoctorWonkaI don't know abt the paperwork for Portugal properties but for the Italy 1-euro houses, yes it's a lot of bureaucracy. It's not really "1 euro". 1 euro is probably the cost of the house but you have to pay many other fees like realtor's fees, taxes, land transfer fees, etc. That's just to transfer the property to you. Then when it's yours, you must renovate it within a certain period of time. At least that's what I remember from the docu that I watched re: Italian properties for sale.
Beautiful Starfort. Great video thanks.
Thank young man that was a well made interesting and informative video.
Renovating using CGI. A village with no road or vehicular access. Land with no habitation licences, mains water, electricity or sewage. Sounds wonderful.
Don't forget brutally hot summers and no water. This video was taken in winter. Everything was green. Id bet things will change drastically when the summer comes. Not half as hospitable. Sadly.
€0.80 for a glass of wine!! Never heard of that in my life
They make the stuff there, it's like water: everywhere
@@weekendatbernies2265 Have you seen the price they charge for wine in Australia? I have, taxed to the max even local wine
It’s goon
It’s goon
True I’m Portuguese and also find this in Minho in locals tascas you can still have a compleat meal for 5€ including coffee, soup and main dish
Great reportage, thanks so SO much!
Thanks for sharing, Portugal is a beautiful place. I may look into it in the near future, to buy a farm
bring your chickens.
The village you showed does not really look like Switzerland. To me, it is much more similar to some villages in Corsica or the Apennines in Italy.
What is so pretty about a village with zero trees and houses glued to each other. That’s hell to me
You make it pretty..the point is there is space to build another life than the life of the city.
@@serif392Exactly!! ❤
At least clean frish air, no noise, no need for transportation, it's nice for me.
You want urban sprawl?
pro tip: never settle in a place without polic nor ambulance service, criminals will see you as a free cookie jar
I like and love Portugal, been there many times!
Here in Canada 2.5hr is a short distance. I love Portugal after seeing so many videos on UA-cam. I hope it rebounds as I've seen quite a few channels who have bought cheap land and are making it home.
Yeah, it only takes about 7 hrs to drive north to south...Portugal has been compared to be about the size of the US state Indiana. Because of the mountains, I'm not sure how lng it would take to drive west to east...though if you are in the southern part of the country, Alentejo....quite flat, more of a 'high desert' area. Used to be lots of agriculture, cork, and olive trees. Unfortunately the previous Portuguese dictator, Antonio Salazar, planted eucalyptus trees (fast growers) but easy to burn as well. The eucalyptus trees release a toxin in the air when thy burn. Cork doesn't burn at all....people who have land should try to plant cork if they can. You could get a harvest every 9 years.
How hard to get an small farm in Portugal 🇵🇹 and plant vines and cork trees 🌳, do need permit to anything and everything when planting a tree or putting an post in or building an woodshed?
I've gone around the whole peninsula in one day, coast to coast. It was at a very high speed, but definitely not something I could do in Canada.
@@JS-jh4cy many small farms already have vines growing and fruit trees too. I think the cork needs the warmer temps of Alentejo and Algarve though. Haven't seen too many ppl mention cork trees in the north part of PT. PT has strict building codes, wanting to maintain the historical 'frame' of original house...so anything that changes the walls/windows, roof, etc. Unfortunately I have heard folks say that PT won't give habitation license if work isnt performed by certified builder...thus no DIY unless you are certified in PT. Seems to run contrary to everything that I've seen on YT...but it must be that they dont know the Portuguese language to read the rules...and when autotranslated...ppl arent getting the real story.
Dude, check your data!
Rio de Janeiro (state): 43.910 km²
Portugal: 92.152 km²
It's not a large country. But it's more than two times the size of the state Rio de Janeiro
Difficult terrain, lack of services, high taxes and bureaucracy, among highest in Europe, little to no support for the local development. When housing is more affordable for a foreigner than a local, you know something is wrong. Civilizations come and go, you know.
I love Portugal! I used to truck there in the 80s & 90s.
Thank you so much for this exploration. I spent a couple of years researching the country (even Madeira and the Azores), so it's great to see aspects I haven't learned about and your thoughts.
I love that abandoned village w the 12 houses. It would be fun to have that, build it up like an old Roman village or something and have events there a few times a year and the rest of the time use it for artists and musicians.
I’ve been to Portugal . Beautiful country . I’ve never been to those areas
25+ years ago housing was extremely cheap compared to more northern standards.
Now you wonder why not more fugitives start developing their lives in rural peaceful portugal.
(instead of trying in overcrowded cities elswhere)
Yes I know they want modern lives with high wages but hapiness can be found in other ways too.
Great video. I’m ready to visit here
As a hungarian I would love to get into revitalizing an old house in Portugal as a vacation home if there was a way to citizenship with that... but if I recall correctly you need to buy expensive property to have a shot at that... I think it was called golden visa or something.
How nice would it be to renovate something old and abandoned with less money and use it in the family to spend nice vacations there.... great vid btw
You don’t need portuguese citizenship to buy and renovate a home for holidays. In fact portugal will welcome you.
Also you can earn residency by studying Portuguese.
fat cats buying vacation condos yuck.
If you are from hungary you can live and work anywhere in the EU or is hungary still like a 2nd class EU citizen?
@@100millioneuros Hungary is part of the EU and citizens should be able to work anywhere in the EU.
Great content. Hello from Nairobi, Kenya
The "windmills" are actually called "wind turbines". Excellent video. Thanks for making it.
They still mill. It's just they mill tax dollars not grain.
Nice vid and pics thanks!
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE!
I would LOVE to know when those houses were built.
They look like they've been standing for CENTURIES,
all the way back to the Middle Ages!
Any rural location is still better the unrelenting hell of life in any city on Earth. Peace and tranquility equals quality of life, which requires no high standard of living.
I love Portugal so much, I lived there for a few months but never got to see as much of the country as I'd have liked.
I just couldn't make a living there, otherwise I'd have stayed. Perhaps one day, when I don't need to, I'll return ❤️
I agree. I've been to Portugal and loved it. But with my work I doubt I'd make a living there.
I wish I could. I'd move there immediately.
Maybe if I win the lotto or wherever.
A neighbor showed me pictures of Portugal. Fishermen with huge nets were catching little Silver Fish. They'd pull the nets FULL of them.
@@terywetherlow7970
Catching Whitebait I expect, schools of immature fish, very popular activity along the coast and estuaries.
Portugal is the oldest friend of England. It's the only nation on Earth that hasn't fought Britain. 🇵🇹🇬🇧❤️
England is the one who occupied, colonized attacked, robbed etc. many parts of the world, including genocide
How interesting!as an english teacher i'm going to use your info for sure!
What the other countries could do that British Empire wanted to colonise them and steal their wealth
@@skincaremakeup40I'd fact check that.... of course there was the great Anglo-Australian campagn of 19......
Says more about Britain than Portugal 😂
The empty side of Portugal is just awesome, empty, quiet, no crowds, no deafening noise, just the way I like it. I know, I'm Portuguese...!!!
I live in The Algarve for a month a year in a villa with a pool next to a golf course. All works fine. And I meet Portuguese folk when I order a meal.
We Are now traveling through Portugal to find a place to make home, we are now in the central area, we drive to the amazing lands but we find it hard to find a peace of land with abounded home (everything looks more expensive then we think it would be, or we looking not good enough).. We already no we ❤portugal, its so pure and bold.
Would be helpful if their immigration policies allowed for people to move there easier. As an Australian, I have to spend a fortune on property just to get a leg in.
Not really....d7 visa only requires passive income from retirement acct and proof of funds. D8 is remote worker visa. D7 requires a 12 month lease or a deed to a property. D8 visa you just have to show your proof of remote job and the amount needed for monthly living (they have a set amount). You don't have to have the lease for remote worker visa. It's easier to get with fewer requirements but the amount of monthly income you need to prove that you are earning is much higher than a D7.
Beautiful country did touch down in Lisbon years ago for a while heading to the Caribbean hopefully will visit in the future ❤
I went to Portugal last year in july, turist time, I loved the people, so simple, sweet, beautiful, I only want to return! is so special, beautiful, special!!!! Not so modern! Is sad that empty villages and also in other countries. No new generations, no children. Thanks for this interesting report!!! It would be wonderful if you organize a trip to Portugal with many of us in the world tbat want to go again!
The slate work at 3:27 was so random it's beautiful. Who needs all those straight lines anyway?
Thank you for doing this heavy task of traveling so that we don't have to.
thanks for commenting so I dont have to.
Fascinating, thanks.
I've been reading the Richard Sharpe novels about the Napoleonic war and a few are set in the mountains of Portugal. Really helped me visualise them.
Super vídeos Hélio from Florida 🇺🇸👏good job!
In France, Italy, Spain, many small villages are abandoned because the population was too small to maintain basic services. Italy especially has a a signed villages because earthquakes have wiped out or damaged villages, killing or injuring too many of the residents.
nostalgia is wonderful but the fact is the modern world decisively abandoned the rural world now
Đất nước bạn thật xinh đẹp với những kiến trúc Tân cổ điển tuyệt vời .
Muito obrigado, watching from the Uk🇬🇧
Visited many parts of Portugal, ex wife is Português & lembre some of the lingua.
Certainly makes a change from here in the uk we’re full up
I now have a place I can plan on moving to when SHTF. I might check into some of these options now. I am a fan of Fatima, the apparitions of Mary in 1917. I would feel comfortable in that blessed country.
Pray for truth of apparitions sadly false
Jesus is the way the truth and the Life No one comes to the Father except through Him
i like those virgin mary plastic statues truck drivers festoon their dashboards with.
The reason the villages are empty has roots in the Methuen Treaty (1703-1836) that Portugal signed with England to not have an Industrial Revolution in exchange of coastal naval protection.
Now, because they did not have an industrialization boom, people can't make a living as traders and merchants anymore.
Trust me, industrialization does solve the “empty countryside” problem. It leads to depopulation
@@Deathbytroll I disagree. All European countries had an Industrial Revolution, except Portugal. If there had been one, the young could be working today remotely from the comfort of their countryside house or opening factories and plants or IT offices in inner Portugal. They wouldn't have fled massively to Australia. Portugal is the #1 provider of immigrants in the European community. They work as babysitters, bricklayers and other low-income professions in Switzerland, Germany, etc. Just like Bulgarians work like bricklayers and plumbers in other developed European countries.
@@mpessan But spain and Italy have industrialization and ended with the same problem, because all people moved to industrial cities.
@@introsig7696 Interesting point. I know about inner Spain. I saw on TV small towns in central Spain with 15 residents only. But I do not know what the situation is like in Italy. When I was in high school (decades ago), I remember hearing that Italy's upper half is developed and Italy's lower half is underdeveloped. But I don't think the situation in Italy is as severe as it is Portugal. Italy has a car industry and is Europe's reference for design. Maybe Italians do know how to gain scale or market internationally. Portugal has no blender to sell. But they are moving. They are opening IT offices in the countryside inviting Brazilians to live and work there. The problem is that these places do not have a modern healthcare infrastructure or leisure facilities or train connections to become attractive.
1. empires have always made 'economic', 'defense' and 'peace' pacts and laws and agreements to exploit, repress, control and manipulate resources and subject peoples to their political will, but how likely and effective would a pact be in addressing an industrial revolution? How could a pact implement such an agreement?
2. look for a better explanation for why Portugals trade and merchants are up a creek.
Interesting hope to visit Portugal soon,will love to visit Lisbon. 😊
It's funny to see how people in Europe believe that in this very Europe there are empty and sparsely populated places.
I live in the Far East of Russia. This is really a sparsely populated place from which the population is leaving. Some regions have lost half of their population over the past 20-30 years.
I live in Primorsky Krai. It is 2 times the size of the whole of Portugal, but only 1.5 million people live here. Moreover, most of them are in Vladivostok and a couple of other large cities.
For me, a 250 km trip to visit relatives is considered close.
My grandfather's house is on the outskirts of the village. Behind it there is just forest for hundreds of kilometers. There are sections of the road where for 50-100 km the road is just forest, there are no villages, gas stations, nothing, just wild nature.
Primorsky Krai is considered a fairly populated region. There is also, say, the Magadan region. It is 4 times larger than the Primorsky Territory. 8 times larger than Portugal. Now less than 150,000 people live there. There are a lot of empty small towns there. And in those cities that still have a significant part of the houses abandoned.
You can buy a home for 0 money. Moreover, you can easily settle somewhere there and no one will care.
Но туда придёт Китай. На мой взгляд лишь вопрос времени
Freezing cold?
@@davidcollin1436 No, it’s not that cold in the Primorsky Territory. The climate is just harsh. One year there may be a drought, and another it rains all summer. In winter, it can be very warm one year - 5, for example, and maybe -30 Celsius on the coast another year. The climate in this region is not constant, it greatly depends on what will prevail. Warm air bringing snow and rain from the sea or cold and dry wind in winter from the north, which becomes hot and scorching in summer.
For reference, Primorye is located in the subtropics. About the same latitude as France.
And in Magadan, yes, it’s cold. Very cold. It’s not absolutely bloody cold like in Yakutia, it’s a little warmer due to the proximity of the sea.
rainy, cold then snowy then boiling hot?
@@rd264 OK. Summer begins at the end of May, beginning of June. It's getting warm. The weather is usually cloudy and foggy. There may be 1-2 sunny days per month. Temperature is about 15-25 Celsius. At the end of July, beginning of August the weather changes. It will be warm and sunny until mid-September.
There is a nuance. There will be several typhoons in the summer. They could just be heavy rain and wind. Sometimes a typhoon washes something away somewhere. There was a road, and now there is a river. Also, the amount of precipitation may decrease sharply. And it won't rain for a month. And then the typhoon comes...
In winter, a typhoon brings snow, ice, and warm weather. An anticyclone may come and it will be very cold and very windy.
You can see what the consequences of a strong typhoon look like in winter. You need to google "ice rain Vladivostok" "Ледяной дождь Владивосток"
The result. The weather is very changeable and fickle. Every year something new happens. And typhoons do not allow you to relax. Primorsky Krai is not the best place to live. Previously, this territory was considered as a place for exiles. During the Soviet Union, local residents were paid more, as they were considered to live in difficult conditions comparable to the far north.
Had they kept the tax break for retirees, I would have happily retired there and rebuilt an old house. Well, not an option anymore… Maybe Portugal will one day resort to what some Italian villages are doing, selling houses for 1€ in order to attract people.
My thoughts exactly.
France sold a Castle to an ex neighbor of mine in 1995ish.
@@terywetherlow7970 For one Euro, or rather Franc in 1995, pre-Euro? If so, it’s usually done under the condition that the new owner renovate the castle. And then we are talking six figures easy…
@@MajorWolf72 I haven't seen or heard of Margaret since as I moved from the town not to long after. She and her kids now grown and Husband who may be deceased tbh were In Paris frequently had a place on Rue de Seine in time period that I knew them. I believe I saw a video of folks who took on the same adventure. It made me think of her & fam.
my thoughts exactly
Very informative video 👍
Looks like a heaven for cycling! Lots of peaceful mountains to climb!
Beautiful! These places just need some color!
Depends on what you mean by color
NO it need reduction in red tape.
Thank you , Sir! Too true i am sure !@@Adnancorner
yellow is good
I think that land and houses are the best investment. When I was a kid, I went to summer camp in Canada for 2 months and this would have been 1984 and houses in this little town would sell for 6,000 - 8,000 CAD. Nowadays if you look online those prices are 600,000 - 800,000 CAD in other words, the value has gone up 100x in just 40 years. No other investment quite like it because it's not just about asset appreciation but regular income stream. But those prices in Portugal are very interesting, and it's only a matter of time before they go up.
These price may never go up since locals are moving away. Its become unbearable hot in spring/summer. All the rivers have dried out over the years. There is deserted areas like this in the middle of spain too for the same reason. Even italy
@@100millioneuros Anywhere you have change, you have opportunity. Right now we have an energy crisis in Europe and if you can find cheap land in the middle of Spain, that would be the perfect place to set up a photovoltaics operation because desert areas get more sunlight. I wrote a book about The Future of Photovoltaics in Europe in 2013 and in it I showed that Spain and Malta have the best prospects for energy independence because of the combination of climate and average land prices. In Spain and Malta, it's not even necessary to get huge loans because the income stream starts immediately, with an ROI of 7 years. Also, a lot has changed since I wrote that book and the newer solar panels are so efficient that you can cover 80% of the average home's energy needs (except heating) by using just 30% of its roof area!
So, while some may see videos like this and be sad, all I see is opportunities!
I love living here! So peaceful!
Great video. The big cities in Portugal are expensive, home prices look similar to the US. The water surrounding the village wall is called a moat in English. . A polite word for animal poop is dung. Horses or cow dung. 😊What a beautiful country.
From $7K to $45K that's the minimum range of profit return every week I thinks it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family.
Wow that's awesome
But I still love my mentor Sophia
😍😍😍Wow that's awesome news
That's really interesting! I've been thinking about investing in digital
currencies lately but wondering how to
do it, do anyone have any thought on that?
To obtain financial freedom, one must either be a business owner, an investor or both, generating passive income particullarly on a weekly or monthly basis. That's the key to living financially stable....
I see cheaper almost ready to move into properties in some areas of Italy...Portugal has many empty delapidated properties that'll cost a small fortune to refurbish. Competent builders are also hard to find and I think that Portugal has become quite expensive now. You may find a cheap house, but it may not have a habitation licence or have an urban article that you can live in without getting permission from the local camera/council.
Houses built before 1951 don´t need habitacional license....the urban and rural articles its another matter you can´t buil or rebuild a habitable house in a rural article piece of land ,,,as the name said it´s only allowed to use it for agricultural purposes...of course to rebuild a ruin of a stone house will cost a lot of money if you want to be comfortable and up to date with modern life...besides legalization of the house in the municipality with a a proper archictetural project with all modern rules of construcion .there are good examples of that like Mr and Mrs Adventures Nearby Veggies The Newbies The Scotts etc...
Avoid places where you have to "ask permission" every time you want to do even the most mundane of things. If that's the starting point, I can guarantee it will only be getting worse.
It sounds perfect!
My parent's birthplace is in nearby Galicia and Asturias, in Spain. Same sad story.
When I visited the place, always on summer, I fantasize about living there.
But I can't imagine passing a whole winter, far from everyone. There's a reason this paradise is getting empty.