Cost of living in Lisbon increases and it’s ours; Brazilian couple say the city’s wealth is its quality of life | Globo reporter
O Globo reporter this Friday (7th) was the Lisbon, which is experiencing an explosion in tourism and in the number of immigrants. Between arrivals and departures, Brazilians are the majority of foreigners reinventing themselves in Portugal – 250 thousand in the country and 78 thousand in Lisbon.
The average cost of living in the capital only increases. The rent of a two-bedroom apartment does not cost less than 900 euros, almost R$ 5 thousand, in the city. rethink the costs and it is necessary to rethink the thing before embarking on the decision to try in the country.
Correspondent Leonardo Monteiro spoke with a Brazilian couple who live in the Lapa neighborhood. Ieda, a graphic designer, and Osvaldo, a writer, went there in 2016, when the cost of living there was about 30 to 40% of the cost it had in São Paulo. But later, this value increased a lot and they are doing what we built in Brazil. Ieda worked as an engineer and, in a valdo, as a multinational manager.
And it was in Brazil where they gathered their reserves for retirement: “We don’t have children and the option of not having them exactly to have that freedom”, says Ieda.
Osvaldo went to Portugal for the first time in 1987, when the city was addicted to drugs: “Lisbon was an underground city, completely decadent”, remembered.
Massive investment in security and education spurred the turnaround.
Today, the couple explains that it is not easy to earn a lot of money there, but that the wealth of the city is the quality of life. They talk about simplifying life and say that services in the city are expensive, like a maid, for example.
“If I was 30 years old and focused on making money, I wouldn’t come here. You won’t make a lot of money, but you will have an excellent quality of life! Of course there are exceptions, it’s not the rule”, says Osvaldo.
For them, the change was mature, thoughtful and without the necessary haste. “Without having to solve everything and think about the future. Because here, I’m not after the future. I think that’s it. For pleasure”, Ieda, who works at a clown NGO, happily tells hospitals in Lisbon.