A series of articles on how to move to Portugal can almost certainly turn your life into a bitter nightmare and meaningless, due to the fact that the Portuguese people in general are of terrible character, a society that is extremely corrupt and dysfunctional at all levels and, above all, Portugal is an undemocratic country where the forces of law protect the criminals and corrupt for the most part.
In Portugal, you are not a citizen, but a piece of trash for the dictatorial Portuguese State, ruled by crooks at the service of other crooks. The more your life depends on Portugal and the Portuguese people, the worse it could end up for you.
Due to 95% of Portuguese society being made up of crooks and idiots, practically nothing works the way it’s supposed to, and you can’t really accomplish anything in Portugal either, regardless of your best efforts and competence. Also, be extremely careful with your money, because in Portugal your money is always in danger of being stolen “legally”, and, obviously, you can’t count on the rigged Portuguese justice system to uphold the law. Once you’ve been stolen in Portugal, you’ve been stolen forever! And this, of course, applies to any other type of very serious situation that you may come across.
In Portugal you’re completely on your own (and abandoned) if anything serious happens to you!
Portugal is a dictatorship in practice because there is no real separation of powers, in what matters most, between the judicial power and the political power, as evidenced by the numerous news shown on this website.
Gonçalo Neves, also known as Tofu, became a paraplegic 12 years ago after a car accident left him in a vegetative state due to a traumatic brain injury. In true Portuguese style, the case dragged on in court for 12 (twelve!) years! Only now have they received compensation! And where is the other compensation for the 12 years of total hell, on all levels, psychological, financial, etc., that they went through…? It's something that of course nobody cares about…
Although it was a television contest, it speaks volumes about the primitive mentality and positioning of the Portuguese people in general, completely out of step with the democratic and free world of modern nations in the 21st century...
A 26-year-old young woman dies one week after a simple dental operation. Health care in Portugal could be a lottery of tragedies! Situations like this could happen with frightening regularity.
Portuguese Golden Visas are only a good idea on paper, in reality many, if not most, of the people involved in this scheme (scam), to a greater or lesser extent, have seen their lives wiped out, or at least their return and experience fell far short of what was promised by the countless, let's call them "actors" of this tragic comedy that in the whole world could only happen in Portugal.
A case of true horror that could only happen in Portugal. This obstetrician, who had already accumulated many complaints for failing to detect malformations on ultrasound scans, also "missed" the case of a girl who had "inverted legs, no chin, and also serious brain injuries". I'm not an obstetrician, but I don't think even I would miss that!
The IPO (Portuguese Institute of Oncology) in Lisbon has spent 10 million euros on several private radiotherapy machines, but yet only one machine is in operation. Why is that?
This shocking news is a very good report of how most public hospitals in Portugal work, with more or less seriousness. It is very frightening to know that a patient who goes to a Portuguese hospital in search of help actually runs the risk of leaving in a worse state of health than when he entered, or even of suffering a very common "accidental" death, for which there is never a responsible or culpable party.
The coordinator of the Lisbon Airport Fiscal Authority and 16 employees took possession of hundreds of "lost and found" items worth thousands of euros. Now you know what probably happened to your laptop, watch, smartphone or any other item you "lost" at the Portuguese airport.
A 29-year-old man died at São José Hospital in Lisbon because, as the hospital told the deceased's mother, "it was bad luck that he (chose) to have a brain aneurysm on Friday, because there was no team of neurosurgeons available over the weekend."
Another totally absurd and criminal sentence from another corrupt Portuguese judge, one that perfectly illustrates why Portuguese justice is such an aberration, a horror movie, a criminal institution above all. It is very clear that this judge is far more concerned about the crook than about his many victims (I wonder why!), going so far as to state something so outrageously insulting to the victims as "not to jeopardize the dignity and livelihood of the accused"...
Six thousand people scammed! Just because they bought a house to live in! These six thousand defrauded people bought their houses with official documents issued by the City Council, explicitly stating that they were houses for "habitation", but after a few years they discovered that they had not bought a "house" in the legal sense, but rather an "accommodation unit" intended for commercial tourism.
Portugal only gives the European Union headaches. This time they have decided to open the doors of the Schengen area to any citizen of the CPLP (Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries), but the problem is that it is being done arbitrarily, without rules and without any minimum acceptable requirement other than paying 15 euros, for an almost "free" access to the common EU Schengen area.
Portugal is a country full of urgent needs at all levels and with paltry salaries, yet it can pay 4 million euros from the public purse for a medicine to be administered in Portugal to some citizens living in Brazil, for the simple reason that they, in their own words, "knew the daughter-in-law of the President of the Portuguese Republic, who knew the Minister of Health".
Portugal is probably the EU country with the most tolls per kilometer on highways and national roads, because the Portuguese have to constantly pay (what is already paid) to the mafiosi who orchestrated the ruinous PPP and SCUT contracts, with obscene never-ending margins and profits.
The usual scams in Portugal, in this case dental clinics that, after receiving money from unsuspecting victims, do not provide any treatment or adequate and professional treatment, but keep the clients' money.
How to be as inhuman and cruel as possible: "They broke the news to her in the coldest and cruelest way. They told her: "Your daughter has something, she is dead! They didn't even call a psychologist. What they did was totally inhuman," criticizes Father Luís Dias.
Yet another story of the Portuguese judiciary zealously protecting criminals from their victims. This time it was a judge who "inadvertently" ignored the law that did not allow a new appeal for the convicted defendant in a case that was about to be "extinguished" because, not surprisingly, that is exactly what happened.
Portugal is such an absurdly dysfunctional and dangerous country that even giving birth in a Portuguese hospital can have disastrous consequences for the life of the mother and her family. The end result is that the health consequences are so severe that this mother will never be able to have children...
The title says it all, so here we have another "spectacular" stone age ruling from a Portuguese judge, and he even has the nerve to quote the Bible in his ruling, saying "we can read in the Bible that the adulterous woman must be punished by death". So implicitly he was saying that his sentence was actually kind because what this woman really deserved was to die! I'm stunned!
How to be a millionaire and instantly become poor? Bring all your money to Portugal! This bankruptcy case is completely buried, as you will read, in very strong factual illegalities committed, as well as numerous indicators also strongly suspicious of criminal activity, to say the least, however, being Portugal, absolutely nothing is ever investigated because everyone is in on it.
Portugal is an eternally postponed country. Nothing ever goes the right way in Portugal because the interests of the countless corrupt always come first. Obviously, Portugal is not only not converging with the EU as it should, it is actually diverging, and at an exponential rate.
It is the total impunity in Portugal! These countless crooks have carte blanche to steal from anyone at any time. The case presented here is frighteningly the same as what happened to me, practically the only difference is the object of purchase...
In Portugal, you can also die at the door of a hospital, as if you were an animal, a pig, according to the words of the victim's older brother. When the family arrived at the hospital, they were just told that they were sorry, but at that time there were no doctors in the hospital, and so the man apparently ended up dying there on the asphalt of the road...
On the very rare occasions when Portuguese justice does its job, the Portuguese population reacts in the opposite direction, taking the side of the convicted corrupt. At the prison gate, hundreds of cars greet him with shouts of "Long live the president" and honking horns.
Be very careful with some Portuguese dentists, because you can find real butchers and sociopaths, like this swindler, who not only destroys people's mouths, but also keeps their money and even has the nerve to send his victims to a psychiatrist.
In what country does an entire class of professionals emigrate en masse? Let alone a class as important to a country and its health as nurses! I honestly don't know, nor have I ever heard of such a thing, because not even in so-called third world countries does this happen on such scale!
YES, you read that right! Dragging your wife down the street by her neck is not considered domestic violence in Portugal, because according to a Portuguese judge, it is not a sufficiently cruel and humiliating act to be considered domestic violence.
It can be said that a Spanish doctor is worth 285 times more than a Portuguese doctor: Spanish doctor - 234 surgeries in six days | Portuguese doctor - 0.82 surgeries in six days. The Spanish doctor says "I understand their concern and I know why there are such long waiting lists in Portugal. It's just that they charge around two thousand euros for each private operation". Oops!
Certainly, among hundreds or millions of anonymous cases of more or less severity, this article can only present four horrifying stories about the "treatment" that so many people undergo when they need intervention in a hospital in Portugal, from dying in hospital after a simple operation to nasal polyps, and family members still having to wait 20 years for the case to reach the European Court just to receive some justice
Clear discrimination against Spanish citizens, just for the reason that they are not Portuguese citizens. "Ticket hunting" for cars with Spanish license plates. Crossing the border to work in Portugal can be a nightmare for Spanish doctors working in Portuguese hospitals.
In Portugal, nothing goes in your favor, even if you are very lucky not to be defrauded and stolen, or simply decide not to invest in Portugal, which is the only right decision to make, your money, even quietly deposited in Portuguese banks, will shrink a lot.
It is very easy to conclude from this extensive news that Portugal is definitely a madhouse. However, it turns out that this is a problem that starts with the Portuguese mindset, for reasons as diverse as ingrained incompetence, laziness, sloppiness, dishonesty, disorganization, and the fact that the Portuguese generally don't give a damn about each other.
The organized group, made up of driving school owners, instructors and examiners, provided exam students, who paid 1,000 to 5,000 euros, with technological equipment designed to capture the questions that appeared on the theoretical exam monitor...
This news seems like a (bad) joke, as absurd and scabrous it is, but this happened in a court in Portugal, which is the norm. What's even more shocking, if that's possible, is that this sentence was handed down by a female judge.
Since Portugal is a very rich country where the people have a very high quality of life (sarc.), it is possible to be very generous towards the believers of the Muslim religion. That is why the city council of Lisbon will donate 3 million euros of Portuguese money for the construction of a Muslim mosque.
Even in a disaster as terrible as the devastating fire of Pedrógão Grande in 2017, which caused 66 deaths and 253 injuries, destroyed about 500 houses, of which 261 were permanent homes, and 50 businesses, the victims were robbed, most of whom never received the aid supposedly intended for them, including millions of euros in personal donations, and many people even went hungry without access to food.
I don't know whether to laugh or throw up at this news about Portuguese customs. But whether this happened in the Middle Ages or today is irrelevant, because the Portuguese back then could not be genetically different from the Portuguese today... What does this say about the mental state of these people?
My life in Portugal was an endless nightmare of the most dreadful things that can happen to a person's life. What this country full of crooks and disgusting people did to me and countless other victims every day is so shocking that it could only happen in a dictatorship in a third world country...
Behind the facade of apparent normality, you will find out the worst way how horrible the Portuguese are if you live there long enough, bearing no resemblance to any other place in the world. Honestly, Portugal is a country of crooks and mentally deficient people. My nine years' experience as an expat in Portugal has shown me how devious things can get. Deep down, the Portuguese are only happy when they see others suffering...
Geographically, Portugal is very beautiful and I think, full of untapped potential, but very regrettably, due to the vast majority of Portuguese people being very dishonest, callous and inept, it becomes a very difficult, more like impossible, place to build a successful and happy life, as you have to fight against an immense plethora of difficulties and pitfalls that are presented to you almost every day...
Most Portuguese are inherently dishonest, so they have no problems of conscience and there is no right and wrong for them, or else there is, the right thing to do is to steal, lie and not get caught. Which is very easy in Portugal, with the blessing and protection of the perfidious Portuguese (in)Justice system.
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