• Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world
      241·
      9 hours ago

      Policies that are too welcoming to expats with high incomes and foreign remote workers that like sunny weather and cheap everything.

      Also: air b&b’s and cheap ryanair flights

      • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I suppose Portugal could do with a couple more cities with over a million inhabitants. It goes huge Lisbon, then relatively small Porto.

        But Portugal should be for the Portuguese, I feel like the Algarve is mostly Brits and Dutchies

        • testfactor@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 hours ago

          I feel like “X should be for the X-people” is maybe not the best phrasing, considering how that tends to play out throughout history.

          • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 hours ago

            I feel there is a distinction between, let’s call them ‘original inhabitants’, being xenophobic towards refugees and those inhabitants being economically unable to live in their own country due to rich folks buying vacation homes