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on A reminder · c/workreform · 1 pts · 8d

As with all things finance, depends on where. $1m in San Francisco means you can’t afford a home. $1m in Sicily is a great life.

Hey, I live here! Hi from Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. I’m an American, but I’ve lived here for four years now. Public transportation here is really excellent - you get within like a 10 minute walk of anywhere you probably want to go on the metro, throughout the entire metropolitan area. Fun fact, the Porto metro is kind of unique in that it uses light rail train sets. So it’s kind of a “Stadtbahn”, as it runs underground in tunnels downtown, and at street level out of the city centre. But it’s always on dedicated tracks, never with traffic and never has to wait for a traffic light or anything. Very unusual! Anyways, if anyone wants to know anything about this beautiful city or its transportation network, ask away!

Hi from Portugal. Chega (far right) is a major party in parliament right now (1/3) and arguably PSD (another 1/3) has gone far right lately especially on immigration. So we basically have two out of three parties who are far-right.

One of them even talked in parliament about “diluting Portuguese blood” and “keeping Portugal for the Portuguese”, right before they voted to retroactively prevent all the foreigners from being allowed to apply for nationality, and prevent most of the southeast Asians from being eligible to renew their residency.

They are also talking about trying to amend the constitution, not to put anything good in there.

So uh, you sure about that?