Feed: Yes Please With the Portuguese - AggScore: 14.0

Yes Please With the Portuguese

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For ages the Brits have been travelling down to the Costas of Spain when they want to retire in the sun. Like the Sunbirds of Florida in the United States the superannuated who hate the cold and worship the sun migrate southwards and set up their aging communities by the sea.If you're British then Spain always seems like the most obvious option as there are already so many ex-pats living there, there's no need to learn the language as the only Spanish people you're likely to ever meet will be watering your lawn or cleaning your bathroom and since Jif became Cif the language barrier there has been surmounted forever! Spain, Europe's last Fascist dictatorship until after Franco died in 1975 and the nation where stabbing up cows and throwing donkeys off church towers is regarded by some to be intrinsic to the nation's cultural identity.I think that's why I'd prefer to move to Portugal myself, We've beaten Spain at war as often as we've beaten France or Germany but we've had treaties with Portugal longer than we have with any other country in the world. Even if you weren't to move there to live permanently there but just wish to buy a house with a mortgage in Portugal [1] you could realise all the positives of owning property abroad, a holiday villa, a rental income when you're not there and and a solid investment in a location that's not synonymous with east-end criminals and untamed binge-drinking yobs taking out their social disphoria on the local population. Portuguese property finance [2] can be as simple and straightforward as it is here in the UK if you go to the right providers.If you're not intending to move to away permanently but would like to holiday in Portugal to get to know the land and the people then it's easy to get carried away, the beaches, the countryside, the villages and cities all entrance and captivate. Just watch out you don't get carried away and have to write pleading letters to your mum asking her to send money to Portugal [3]! [1] http://www.liveinportugal.com/mortgage-portugal [2] http://www.liveinportugal.com/ [3] http://www.liveinportugal.com/Money_Transfers.htm