Portuguese are horrible people

Portuguese mentality

This article is not about the (genuinely) decent and upstanding Portuguese, albeit not more than 5%, as I perceive it and according to my anecdotal experience, but about the remaining 95% made up of crooks, idiots as as well as the conniving/passive/simpletons who constantly look the other way (which makes them equally guilty/responsible for the perpetual tragic situation) who, for a variety of reasons, turn life in Portugal a hell and a very dangerous and unhappy place to live in, with the real potential to destroy your life due to all the unbridled madness, lawlessness and the covert dictatorship.

Extremely dangerous! In Portugal you play Russian roulette with your life (well-being) every day, without knowing it! Don’t believe any of the Portuguese propaganda and brainwashing, often in collusion with the Portuguese media! Both for external and internal consumption. They are compulsive liars and hide everything from the population!

Don’t believe the “international awards” either, most of them are bought.

Unfortunately, the international organizations are also being completely fooled by Portugal, and they just parrot what Portugal wants them to say. Especially with regard to the true level of corruption, which is practically total in the highest and most important bodies, and the rule of law, which doesn’t exist, period. The main factor contributing to this deception is the conniving, cowardly and totally passive behavior of the Portuguese people, who confuse the outside world. Don’t believe them either!

Portugal is a country full of deadly mines where you least expect them and where almost nothing is what it seems.

To run risks in Portugal, all you have to do is live a normal life.

This article is about the experience of living in Portugal for several years, integrated and living in the country as if you were any other native citizen who needs the system and its people to make a living.
If you visit Portugal simply as a tourist, you will most likely have a very pleasant experience in contact with the Portuguese, who are generally very friendly people, but unfortunately most of the time this is nothing more than a mask that hides a very dark Portugal.

Portugal is what it is because the Portuguese are what they are.

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 undiagnosed mentally deficient people. My nine years’ experience as an expat/immigrant in Portugal has shown me how devious things can get. Deep down, the Portuguese are only happy when they see others suffering, and that doesn’t spare their own family members. They rejoice in the misfortune of others and even make jokes about it, this includes the detestable people of the law in Portugal, as happened to me.

When a Portuguese sees someone, no matter who, who has managed, for example, to buy a nice car, a nice house, whatever… The Portuguese won’t think something positive like: “Good for him, if he can do it, so can I, as long as I work harder and smarter.” The wicked Portuguese will turn green with envy and will do everything to machinate that person (behind your back, of course, as the Portuguese are the most cowardly people I’ve ever seen, after all, all crooks are cowards) and it’s completely irrelevant whether it’s a relative or not, he/she will certainly dream every night that you have a very nasty accident with that beautiful new car that makes you so happy. Awful but true!

The Portuguese are, above all, excruciatingly envious of happy people. They can’t stand to see anyone happy.

Portuguese really hate happy, successful people, because deep down they’re a bunch of losers.

One of the Portuguese’s favorite “sports” is to cowardly puncture the tires of their neighbor’s car, putting nails, screws, whatever behind the tires when no one is looking. It happened to me, but unfortunately I only realized that something very suspicious was going on when I was punctured for the third time in the same month. As if that wasn’t enough, this bastard also loved to throw cigarette butts (out of his window) at the top of my car, in a clear attempt to burn the paintwork, as there were always lots of cigarette butts very close to my car.

Cigarette butts thrown on Portuguese streets
Cigarette butts littering the streets. Portuguese streets, roadsides and what not, are always full of garbage! | The Real Portugal

Life in Portugal feels like living in a sewer, mainly because of the sh*tty people who surround you and make your life a living hell when we need them most.
The best you can expect from Portuguese society and its people is absolute mediocrity (and patheticness). Portugal’s middle name should be mediocrity, and that’s already a compliment.

A Portuguese lawyer told me, in the most blasé way possible, that it’s normal to happen if the Portuguese judge suspects or knows that you have a nice car, a nice house, or whatever it is that he/she envies you, (not exactly those words, but the same meaning, referring to my particular case). So, because he/she has this grudge against you, this judge will destroy your in a heartbeat with a signature and a big smile on his/her face. It is extremely disturbing that, for these people, this is perfectly normal and acceptable, because they don’t even realize that there is something terribly disturbing and criminal about this behavior. These “judges” are committing a heinous crime by acquitting and protecting criminals based of their personal prejudices. This is not normal! Precisely when society counts on and most needs a judge as a last and proper resort to live up to its highest moral standards and do its fundamental job of applying the law and protecting the innocent.
When you talk to a Portuguese person until you are blue in the face about these monstrous scandals that happen every day in the Portuguese justice system or about the corrupt and dirty Portuguese politicians who steal billions of euros from the pockets of the Portuguese taxpayers and the European Union, the Portuguese just tighten their lips and look at you with a zombie face without any reaction, as if you were crazy for talking about it and stating the glaring (very dangerous) truth, or they laugh like freaks and find the seriousness of what you’re talking about very funny.

In this respect, it is impossible to talk about serious or extremely grave matters with the Portuguese, most of the time they find everything that’s not for laughs very funny, or they also say something extremely stupid and nonsensical about it, and often even revolting.

In Portugal, the abnormality is the normality, when it’s not a downright aberration.

In Portugal, almost everything is so unnecessarily and even sadistically complicated (mad), often with serious detrimental effects on your life.

Portuguese Christmas market
Typical Portuguese Christmas Market. Not pretty and rather pauper. Can you feel the joy in the air? | The Real Portugal

The Portuguese justice system is a monstrous fraud, which includes Portuguese lawyers, all of whom are chasing the most profitable Portuguese business ever, the victim business! The business of exploiting and robbing the victims of their very last cent and drop of blood until there is nothing more left to take from them. In true democracies victims are protected and heard, but in Portugal they are just a commodity and a tremendously profitable one.

There is nothing more dangerous and nefarious than a Portuguese with power. Whatever position they hold, it will never be good for the people under them, generally speaking.

The Portuguese love to have the power to make other people’s lives miserable.

Portugal is, in practical terms, a dictatorship of crooks (and idiots and mediocrities), admired by a population that is broadly the same and shares the same objectives, truly it is all a BIG SCAM, but they call themselves a democracy just to primarily continue to cheat the EU, so the EU keeps sending billions of Euros in handouts to the corrupt Portuguese to feed their luxurious lives with the hard earned money of the European taxpayers. Mine and yours, if you’re an EU citizen.

In my nine wasted years in this horrible place called Poortugal, I only met acquaintances, I never found anyone I could call a friend or who treated me (sincerely) as a friend. The Portuguese are not people who can be trusted, not even with banalities, because the more information they have about you, the more dangerous your life becomes, not necessarily physically, but in everything else, due to the Portuguese being very envious people (I’ve never seen a country with such envious people as Portugal) and have many inferiority complexes. Even among them, there are no real friends, only self-interest (they are always backstabbing each other, including within their own families). Portuguese are generally very mean and toxic people to hang out with.
Without a doubt, most of the time there is a very negative and depressing aura of energy around the Portuguese when you get to know them better. It’s weird.

Portugal has the typical misery of dictatorships, a mixture of economic misery and a deep, lingering sadness.

For most Portuguese, when they see an honest person, they think they’re stupid and won’t hesitate to take advantage of you.

When you need Portuguese people for something, you usually get screwed. Unfortunately, most foreigners find this out sooner or later.

Vandalized Chinese store in Portugal
Even Chinese stores are not doing well in Portugal. | The Real Portugal

Actually, almost everywhere you look in Portugal is tremendously depressing and ugly; the dirty streets, the neglected buildings, the pauper shop windows, the cars falling apart… It’s really bad… (Except for the most touristic areas, and even then… and nature, of course.) However, I must say that compared to other European countries, Portugal has very few historical sites worth visiting, besides most of the monuments and historical sites are dirty, very poorly preserved and managed.

For the Portuguese, lying is as natural as breathing, it’s institutionalized. I was astonished when I witnessed that lying has no weight whatsoever, even in court, absolutely zero, and even less when it’s the criminal or the prosecutor who lies.

In Portugal, the lie is the truth and the truth is the lie, the more serious the matter, the worse it is.

I am very convinced that almost all Portuguese don’t distinguish between right and wrong, there is no such thing as scruples, very seriously, they don’t really know the true meaning of the words: honesty, honor, ethics, morals, decency, truth, justice, friendship, reliability, loyalty, integrity, democracy, freedom of expression, rights and duties, citizenship, civility, community, shame… Very sadly, most Portuguese only know and take care of what is good for themselves. They have no moral values and are incapable of any kind of (not fake) empathy towards others. For many, their only value is; what’s yours is mine (whenever they get the chance). The Portuguese have all their values reversed.

Portugal is such a bad place and devoid of any trace of real humanity (i.e. empathy, justice, solidarity…) that even if you have money, you can never get any real help. In fact, if you have money, it’s even worse for you, because you keep suffering more and more from the problems and the monsters you meet along the way, including lawyers and the justice system, who are only interested in taking any money you “still” have, for nothing, until you are literally bankrupt, if you don’t get out in time.

Basically, in Portugal, if you have money, you walk around with a bull’s-eye on your back (and it’s even worse for foreigners because we are more vulnerable).

So having money in Portugal doesn’t help you either, it just makes you a bigger target.

Ironically, it’s when you’re at your happiest that you run the greatest risk of a financial catastrophe happening in your life, like a big fraud, because you let your guard down and they take advantage of your positive emotions. Be very careful, in Portugal they don’t hesitate for a second to take advantage of people’s happiness to literally destroy their lives straight away!

Portugal grinds up people’s lives!

It is impossible to be happy in Portugal because no one is happy and no one wants to see you happy. The Portuguese are much more concerned about making other people’s lives miserable than focusing on the happiness and success of their own lives. (sickening!)

The Portuguese in general are very mean and cruel people who take great pleasure in causing great suffering in others, especially emotionally and psychologically, whenever they have the opportunity or power to do so.

Definitely most Portuguese are swindlers, they just want your money! Be very, very careful if you give your money to a Portuguese, especially if it is a large sum, take maximum precautions, but even so, we will never know, because there is a high probability (compared to a developed country) that you will NEVER, EVER get it back! And if you go to a lawyer, (as is normal in any “normal” country, but you are in Poortugal), the Portuguese lawyer will just take advantage of your desperation to also con you and take all your money to resolve nothing, then the court will also rob you by charging you exorbitant fees, taxes and after many and many years of humiliation, waiting and repeatedly paying exorbitant sums to crooked lawyers and fraudulent Portuguese courts all you get is an insulting, preposterous and inconsequential judicial sentence and the acquittal of the criminal in the most flagrant disregard of the law with a complementary smile from the Portuguese judge.
You will receive lots of “arquivamento” (which means dismissed/filed, your case wasn’t even accepted by the court). Note that every time you appeal the “arquivamento” you will have to pay the Portuguese lawyers and courts all over again. This is how the farcical Portuguese legal system makes a fortune out of the desperation of its victims in this truly horrible fake “country” called Portugal.

There is probably nothing more stupid and criminal in the world than a Portuguese judge.
In fact, the majority of Portuguese are not fit to be judges, public prosecutors, lawyers and politicians, as they are totally unqualified to perform these absolutely crucial functions in any real democracy, which require acute intelligence, common sense and above all exceptional ethics and morals, the exact opposite of what the majority of Portuguese people are.

Actually, in my view, I don’t even think that the Portuguese are qualified or deserve to have their own country. In fact, Portugal is so full of unpunished criminals and evil people, like nowhere else in the world, that if the world were totally just, this truly diabolical place should simply be dismantled for the good of humanity.

Portuguese society is poor because most Portuguese are crooks and they are crooks because they are stupid, since they are incapable of creating any kind of good and wealth and earning money honestly.

Private car sales park in Portugal
What you see most in Portugal are personal cars parked in any free space on the street for sale, but most of them are lemons, or even in a state of near scrap. (Especially suburbs of big cities and most of the rest of the country) | The Real Portugal

The Portuguese often attribute everything that happens in their lives, including their own future, to God’s will. It’s actually a very lazy and convenient way of not taking responsibility for one’s own actions and decisions. Many of the most despicable and dishonest people are often the most pious, going to church every Sunday and always talking about Jesus, God and the Bible. They use the cloak of religion to hide their venom and their true selves (but not everyone is like that, of course).

The Portuguese population in general constantly mixes religion with witchcraft, which is a sure sign of primitive minds.

The Portuguese are the kind of people who, when they hear something (very) stupid, think it’s intelligent, and when they hear something intelligent (common sense), think it’s stupid.

You cannot carry adult conversations with adults in Portugal, because in general, the Portuguese are extremely difficult people to engage in an intelligent and meaningful conversation with, since we hear so much drivel and stupidity that our brains just want to shut down to end the agony, or else we just have to resort to talking about silly things with them, which they seem to love. In Portugal you’re always being intellectually assaulted, from everywhere.
Portugal is also a very infantilized society, most people seem to have a mental age of ten or five. There are no adults in Portugal. It’s children having children. As well as (undiagnosed, because most of the population is, so it’s the norm) mentally disabled people reproducing with mentally disabled people. Or often people of the same bloodline reproducing with others from the same bloodline. It’s all related in the end.

As a general rule, socializing with Portuguese condemns you to failure due to their toxic and defeated personality.

No one can achieve greatness by mixing with mediocre people, on the contrary, you’ll become mediocre too (unintentionally).

Mediocre people don’t want to work, learn and improve, they rather want people who work hard, like to learn and have talent to become mediocre like them.

It’s very difficult to be ourselves among the Portuguese, because they are intellectually and culturally very closed and inflexible people. What I mean is that they are extremely closed to the “outside” world and to other people who might think differently from them, and also because they are very basic people and don’t give a sh*t about the world and other cultures.

Portuguese street manhole cover expertise
Portuguese roads. No wonder that so many Portuguese cars drive on the road broken down. | The Real Portugal

The Portuguese hate to talk about serious matters, let alone criticize the decrepit state of their country, plagued by corruption, injustice and authorized thieves (to the point where Portuguese democracy has in fact been annulled, but no Portuguese realizes it!), conversely, they also hate to hear anyone praise the advantages of other countries. How can they improve their thoroughly broken country if no one criticizes anything or is willing to learn from the good and bad examples of others?
This fear of being criticized and aversion to praising others boils down to deep feelings of envy and inferiority complexes.

If you want to know anything serious and “real” about Portugal, the very last person you should ask is a Portuguese.

On a side note; I never envy anything or anyone (it only diminishes us), the good things we see should always serve as a source of inspiration and learning to improve ourselves and our lives, in my opinion.

Among other things, happiness lies in finding a goal in life, and putting in as much effort as possible to achieve it, something you’ll never be able to do successfully in extremely dysfunctional, evil and toxic Portugal, no matter what.

A group of Portuguese talking most of the time is like watching an endless chain reaction of unleashed stupidity. The Portuguese are completely devoid of any kind of common sense.

The Portuguese are seriously ignorant, illiterate and narrow-minded, including, amazingly, university graduates (it seems that instead of a brain they have a stone in their head, since they can’t change their rusty middle-aged ideas). Portugal is a country stood still in time. They are a people who neither have nor show interest or curiosity in anything more “complex” or “abstract”, but only in the little things of their petty lives and are only willing to learn what is strictly necessary in order to keep their jobs and not get fired. The Portuguese have no ambitions, no dreams, whatsoever! Just sad, empty, resigned and submissive minds and lives. Indeed, most Portuguese minds are a very, very dark place.

Most Portuguese don’t live, they just exist. They’re just waiting for the next day.

The life project of most Portuguese:
Eat 🍕 Sleep 🛌 Repeat 🔁

Which means that the Portuguese are exactly the perfect “docile” citizens to live under a dictatorship, because they don’t even care about it!

Actually, the phrase most often on the lips (and hidden in the minds) of the Portuguese is: “I don’t care!”.

Portugal has the peace of cowards.

Except for their football club, the Portuguese have no (real and serious) opinion about anything. Unlike in true democracies, there is no public opinion in Portugal, which is fatal, because public opinion is the essence, the heart that gives life and meaning to democracy.

People without any kind of intellectual curiosity is a solid sign of low intelligence, and by the way a generalized degree of mental deficiency is clearly noticeable in some of the Portuguese population, if you’ve lived there for some time you’ll know what I’m talking about. For some reason Brazilians call the Portuguese dumb and make a lot of jokes about them. As far as I’m concerned, I can fully attest to this bottomless Portuguese dumbness.

I firmly believe, based on my horrendous experience, that, in general, the Portuguese are probably the stupidest people on Earth (as well as probably the most malicious).

Most Portuguese lack a real capacity for empathy, which is another sure sign of low intelligence and primitive minds, and which in itself is the cause of the Portuguese’s total lack of a sense of citizenship, i.e. caring for and respecting other citizens and not just selfishly looking out for themselves, as the Portuguese do. Democracy is being aware that you are a citizen among other citizens who have the same rights and duties as you. That’s why democracy is a TOTAL failure in Portugal. The Portuguese have no sense of citizenship and because of that, evil has taken over their “democracy”.

Unlike all other countries, with the exception of dictatorships, in Portugal there are virtually no spontaneous expressions of solidarity, be it public demonstrations, social media, other media, small or large, with their fellow citizens when it comes to, for example, outrageous cases of egregious injustice and violations of the most basic human rights practiced by the fraudulent Portuguese courts on a daily basis against their own citizens, which would bring any other country to its knees. Unfortunately, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of the Portuguese people actually take a sadistic pleasure in hearing about these cases of atrocious emotional and psychological suffering of others, or they simply don’t give a rat’s ass because there is nothing human about them.

The Portuguese are only friendly on the surface, inside they are an ice cube.

Not to mention the total impunity for the massive and incessant theft of public funds by the generally corrupt ruling classes, which the incredibly stupid Portuguese, for the most part, find hilarious!

All this coldness of the Portuguese, guided only by the most primal and animal instincts, which are not compatible with what makes us human and distinct from irrational animals, often makes us feel that we are dealing with an entire society of Stone Age people.

The truth is that there is not even a society in Portugal, just a bunch of savages looking out for themselves, no matter who has been hurt, no matter whose life has been ruined, no matter who has been wronged, no matter who has been robbed. Nobody cares about anybody in Portugal.

The mentality of the Portuguese is not even third-world, that would be an upgrade, it really is a prehistoric cavemen mentality.

If we remain indifferent to the injustice and suffering of others, sooner or later we too will suffer the same fate. Democracy lives in each one of us and in the collective of the people, who must be active and vigilant citizens. When almost everyone constantly looks the other way, democracy dies and is SURELY taken over by criminals, as was the case in Portugal. And the great danger this poses for you is that the Portuguese don’t care or even comprehend what has happened to their country.


The guardians of democracy are not the politicians, they are the people. Politicians are just servants of the people.

In democratic terms, each individual is only as strong as the collective. When the collective is weak and lacks morals, decent people are automatically in danger.

Potted plant full of cigarette butts at the entrance to a cafe in Portugal
Portuguese don’t know the difference between a garbage can and a plant pot: A plant pot full of garbage and cigarette butts at the entrance to a café in Portugal. The Portuguese are very slovenly, using a plant pot as if it were a garbage bin, and what’s even more incredible is that the café owners themselves don’t care about the image they convey to customers and don’t waste two minutes removing all this garbage from around the poor suffocated plant, or perhaps it’s not worth it because it will be full of garbage again in no time. | The Real Portugal

The Portuguese are only well when they are screwing/cheating each other.

Many Portuguese turn out to be “gente asquerosa” – truly obnoxious people.

In general, the Portuguese are rather gloomy people, many look unhealthy and aged, especially when they are over forty, in some localities they look very sad and miserable and strangely they seem to be always falling forward and walk extremely slowly, as well as most of the time we can see them carrying a plastic bag or two. Occasionally, but much more than I would have expected, I saw many dragging their feet and limping. I’ve never seen so many lame people in one country (except in a country at war). I don’t know, but this must be caused by the lousy Portuguese public hospitals, you can come out worse than you went in and sometimes in a black bag. Portuguese public hospitals can be slaughterhouses. Professionals are miserably paid, apart from the higher ranked ones, and work long hours without adequate rest, when there are even doctors available to assist you, but primarily due to a lot of incompetence and irresponsibility. The problem with Portuguese public hospitals is that most of the time there are no issues, I think, but the probability of things going (extremely) wrong is very high, compared to a developed country, due to many random and idiotic reasons. Portuguese hospitals are like casinos, but the prizes are maladies and death. That is, when 112 answers and the ambulance doesn’t take years to get to you.

When you walk through the Portuguese suburbs and look around, you see so much misery, of all kinds, stamped on people’s faces, buildings and surroundings. This is the life that probably 95% of the Portuguese have.

Very poor Portuguese suburbs
When you see such profound misery, it is a clear sign that there is something very wrong and sick with this society and its people. (Of course, there are also very nice and modern apartments and houses, but these are only affordable by a very small minority of privileged people with salaries and wealth far above the Portuguese average). | The Real Portugal

Poortugal looks and smells poor almost everywhere you go.

Many Portuguese have a very strange way of greeting each other. In every country we say something like: “Hello! How are you?” and the other person will reply something like: “I’m fine, thank you!”. In Portugal it’s different, we say; “Hello! How are you?” and many (not all) answer; “Vou andando…” which translates into something like; “I’m dragging myself…” and if we say we’re fine like; “Esta tudo biem!” they look at us with a disappointed face, because they expect us to answer something even worse like; “I’m bursting with arthritis pain!”, so they can feel happy for the rest of the day.

Once I was in a Portuguese post office and while the clerk was assisting me, she was also chatting at length with two other colleagues, and then to my astonishment, I heard her say to her colleagues “It’s a good thing that I’m getting old, this way I’m closer to retirement” (a woman maybe only in her late forties, a young person in my opinion). Wow! This perfectly reflects the “fighting spirit” of the Portuguese people (sarc). Is it possible to be more defeatist? You can change your job, move to another country, you can change everything and learn anything at any age if you truly set your mind to it. But giving up on living? No wonder Portugal is what it is… I have no doubt that most Portuguese reach the age of 40 and start thinking about retirement.

Portugal is a country of mostly elderly people and young, middle-aged people who already feel old with exactly the same old ideas, the same conversations, the same conformism and lack of dreams, and even the same mannerisms. There is no generation gap in Portugal.

Generally speaking, children become perfect clones of their parents regarding toxic mentality, backwardness, primitive habits and culture, as well as total absence of moral values, also due to the very poor education of the majority of Portuguese parents.

Most of the Portuguese don’t know how to parent because they don’t even know how to take care of themselves.

Very strangely, I’ve also noticed that most of the streets in any big or small city in Portugal, apart from the tourist areas, are almost always empty or with very few people, i.e. Portuguese people, lifeless streets, no human sounds, voices, laughter. Very bizarre and gloomy.

In addition, the Portuguese, in general, are also very lazy and incompetent, and it doesn’t matter if he/she is a bricklayer or a lawyer. In this respect, I’ve discovered that, deep down, the Portuguese are mentally very similar, the only thing that changes is the title of the profession.
They say this proverb and then laugh “Não é para fazer, é para se fazendo”, which roughly translates to – It’s not to do, it’s to keep doing and keep doing and keep doing… (so without ever finishing the task). They also have another saying: “Lei do menos esforso” The law of least effort. So, this “culture” and lack of work ethic explains very well why Portugal is such a backward and eternally postponed country.

In general, Portugal is a country of losers, inept and very envious people. Portuguese are also notoriously passive-aggressive people.
Many Portuguese are also holders of an icy cruelty, in any of its forms.

Compared to developed countries, Portuguese roads can be (very) dangerous, so it’s very prudent to drive defensively and be very alert when driving in Portugal, because there are too many Portuguese drivers who are idiots on wheels and there is a general lack of civility. Only by driving defensively have I avoided many accidents, some of which could, perhaps, have been fatal, in addition, if you do have an accident the insurance company will send you straight to court, which you will most certainly lose, after spending a fortune and trashing at least a decade of your life.

Many Portuguese drive too fast and recklessly or too slow and foolishly.

Also be very careful when crossing crosswalks. Before crossing, make sure the car is really stopping, otherwise you could be hit by a car. I’ve seen many near misses!

Mandatory payment under extortion to street car valets in Portugal
Every place that has a parking meter is sure to have a leech waiting to extort money from you under the threat of scratching your car when you leave. Obviously, the Portuguese police don’t give a damn, so they’re always at ease to extort you. | The Real Portugal

If a Portuguese is lucky enough to have a better salary, many will turn into futile and outrageous human beings, empty shells covered with brands and accessories. This type of person lives only on appearances, sustained by huge credit card debts. They don’t know that it’s not the outside that counts, but the inside (a cliché, but very true). This type of person needs all these paraphernalia to validate themselves. Just because they wear brands, they automatically think they’re better than everyone else. They measure themselves by the number of brands they display and not by their intrinsic value as human beings. Don’t get me wrong, I love good things and good quality/price brands, but those things don’t define me, of course.
I’ve also witnessed a couple throw away almost new (good quality) clothes, shoes, bags, etc. with frightening regularity and then go on a shopping spree to buy them all again just for the sake of buying more stuff, but what frightened me the most was seeing these sick people criminally throwing supermarket bags full of unopened food packaging in perfect condition into the garbage bin! (However, I don’t believe this is a common occurrence though, it was just one couple I saw doing it).

Portuguese are a mixture of meanness and mental retardation (which is not perceptible at first sight), and that is the root of all the evils that happen in this fake country.
It’s not the country that makes the people, it’s the people who make a country. That’s why Portugal is a sh*thole, because most Portuguese are sh*tty human beings. I consider meanness to be a defect of nature, so most Portuguese are born defective.

I sometimes use the “heavy” words, mental deficiency to describe some Portuguese people because, frankly, there is no other way to properly describe the extremely disconcerting, disturbing and bizarre behavior of many of them, their constantly preposterous and bizarre responses to serious issues, their boundless rudeness (it doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, the level of rudeness, impudence, contempt and shocking lack of respect can be staggering and so infuriating and it comes from where you least expect it), and especially their total lack of empathy, not human. Of course, it can’t just be plain stupidity, it has to be something else that comes from their very bad genes! There’s definitely something very wrong with the Portuguese people’s heads. (These aspects reveal themselves above all when you need them most, in serious situations (i.e. happened with some of my lawyers), or when you’ve known them for a while, and not necessarily in casual situations). However, the total absence of empathy of the Portuguese people in general is innate, very profound and chilling (and above all not human).

The Portuguese are also the world’s greatest experts at cynically distorting facts and the truth out of sheer malice and infinite stupidity, as I’ve never seen anywhere else.

It is well known that from the beginning of Portuguese history until today there has been a lot of inbreeding and alcohol abuse, starting in the villages and reaching the big cities in the poorest areas, and that it takes place within the family secret (it also happens with animals, but that’s another story), and as frightening as it is, it is still very common among the poorest people for Portuguese children to consume alcohol, provided by their OWN parents and relatives, something they call “sopa do cavalo cansado” – a very toxic mixture of bread and alcohol (more alcohol than bread) that is given to children out of gross negligence, laziness and sheer ignorance, which has obviously seriously deteriorated Portuguese genetics and continues to do so.

The Portuguese are very racist and xenophobic towards Europeans and Americans and indeed, bizarrely, towards ALL aspects of foreign cultures in general. An anecdote: Once I was on a terrace and heard a Portuguese woman praising French cheeses, and immediately a spiteful Portuguese man at the table with her got angry at her and said, “Why are you talking about French cheeses?! We have very good cheeses!” How pathetic! Even with foreign food, the Portuguese are “racist”! I’m sure the Portuguese are also “racist” towards the natural landscapes and cities of other countries!
Their country is a utterly dysfunctional and undemocratic society (its state institutions are a veritable fraud posing as a democracy), but they like to shout that Portugal is one of the best and the greatest countries to live in, (during Euro 2021, there was a very awkward and embarrassing campaign in all Portuguese media stating the following: “We are Giants! We are Huge! We are the Best!”. Is it possible to be more pathetic?! An eternally bankrupt country always with outstretched hands perpetually living off other people’s generosity and money! Really!? How can you be great if you live permanently on the dole? On the other hand, they love to bash Europeans and Americans, which only reveals their sheer ignorance, stupidity and inferiority complex. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be great, quite the opposite, but you have to work for it, right?! And it clearly doesn’t help to live perpetually on the dole of other countries.

Only when you, Portuguese, start to give to others, will you be able to say, if you wish, that you are a great country. However, when you are REALLY great, you are also modest.

Unfortunately, the only thing in which Portugal is indisputably the best in the whole world is crookedness and mediocrity!

Portuguese people mindset
The overwhelming majority of the Portuguese population has this mindset, because they are people without any humanity towards others and are only centered on themselves and their most primal instincts and, in general the Portuguese are also people who are very poorly adapted to today’s modern world in every respect. Most Portuguese haven’t evolved beyond the Australopithecus state. Sure enough, the Australopithecus lives in Portugal. | The Real Portugal

The Portuguese are probably the most cowardly and spineless people in the world, as they would rather bury their heads in the sand than fight and claw back their country from the criminals who have usurped their democracy. However, this will never happen because for most of them it is: “If I could I would do the same”, “Too bad it’s not me”, and so on… There are no MEN and WOMEN with capital letters in Portugal.

In Portugal, it’s not a question of us (the good guys) against them (the bad guys), because in the end the monolithic crooked mentality and lack of morality is common to all. They all seem to be connected by the same wire.

Poortuguese actually admire dishonest people. We hear people say all the time that the scum are very intelligent and sophisticated, but they never call them corrupt, crooks or thieves. It’s as if there are no bad people in Portugal! (And they like it even more when it’s the president of their beloved football club who’s a big-time crook).
They even defend them, including journalists and commentators on television and in the media in general (literally or by not telling the whole truth). Only a crook and an idiot could say that another crook is clever and sophisticated, but not a crook. (What is clever about taking other people’s money?) Your lawyer, whom you pay dearly, will tell you the same thing and even find it very funny! Portuguese people are truly insane!

Have you ever noticed that all the people who say that crooks are very smart people and not criminals are always losers? I’ve never seen a person who is intelligent and successful by talent and merit (apart from being decent, of course) admire crooks. That’s why the vast majority of Poortuguese admire crooks, because they were born big losers and will die big losers, and they know it every day when they look at their ugly mugs in the mirror.

The only thing that makes us being us, is our integrity, without it we are nothing.

Moreover, it’s very easy to be a con artist in Portugal. Even a monkey could be one, all the thief has to do is simply keep other people’s money for whatever pretext (it doesn’t even have to be a scheme, it can indeed be any kind of legitimate business), and it is absolutely certain that nothing will happen to the thief under the law, on the contrary, the thief will be protected tooth and nail by the Portuguese dictatorial “inJustice” system. Also be very aware that all the supposedly “legal” documents and contracts are of no “real” use and do not provide any “real” protection in Portugal, so, in case you are defrauded, you are automatically screwed FOREVER, 99.9% of the time! The Poortuguese State itself is a con artist!

When you arrive in Portugal, you are no longer an American, Dutch, British, Spanish or any other citizen, you are just a sack of potatoes for the Portuguese Government/State and are treated as such.

In Portugal, you can’t trust anything or any amount that you can’t afford to lose, because if you get robbed (defrauded), it’s final, there’s no safety net, there is no “real” legal protection, it’s all fake.
And if you try to recover the stolen money (or any other kind of value in general), the only thing that will happen is that you’ll “lose” a lot more money, your life will come to a halt, and endless years will be wasted when you could be doing a lot more interesting things with your precious life. This is guaranteed to happen 99.9% of the time.

Literally, when you hand over your money to someone in Portugal, especially large sums, there is nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing “lawful” (real), to stop that person from taking your money, and that thief will still be protected by the law against you, the stolen victim.

In Portugal, it’s not that you were unlucky to be scammed, it’s more like, you were lucky not to be scammed (deliberately or out of sheer incompetence).

In Portugal, not all businessmen are fraudsters, but almost all fraudsters are “respectable” businessmen.

Don’t trust anything or anyone in Portugal (both people and state/government bodies). Almost everything in Portugal is not what it seems.

That’s why the greatest security you can give yourself in Poortugal is not to need anything or anyone like a hospital, a doctor, insurance, a lawyer or even mundane things like a plumber, an electrician, etc. In other words, you can never get sick and you have to be as independent and autonomous as possible.

Because in Poortugal you can only rely on yourself.

The truth is that literally ANY and EVERY legal business in Portugal can be a long-standing authorized scam or a major fraud, sanctioned and protected by law, and no one will warn you and it’s not even written down anywhere! For foreigners it’s even more dangerous because we are much more vulnerable. That’s why the most coveted prize for a Portuguese crook is to steal money from a foreigner.

I have no doubt that most of the Portuguese economy is sustained by scamming, stealing and ripping off foreigners. Because practically every business that depends only on Portuguese customers goes bankrupt.

Generally speaking, the official financial statements of companies cannot be trusted either; they are heavily manipulated and conceal a great deal, and in any case they are not available to the public.

Ironically, the more money you have, the more danger you run in Poortugal, for the simple fact that you are carrying a big target on your back when you have a lot of coveted valuables that can be stolen or “lost” legally or in some other completely arbitrary and erratic way (including for the swindling Portuguese state), such as; depositing the money in a Portuguese bank and it “disappears” overnight with all your money (it happens all the time)! I can’t say it enough: NEVER bring your money to Portugal! EVER! EVER! EVER!
There are 1000 ways to get stolen in Portugal and they are all legal (explicitly or in practice).

If you’re rich and you come to Poortugal, you’re guaranteed to go broke!

Portugal is the land of impunity and injustice!

In Portugal, even donations and charities are pretty much all scams, especially when it comes to giving money. No matter how kind-hearted you are, unfortunately you can never trust any.

A truly egregious example of this for its enormous human dimension was that 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 homes, of which 261 were permanent homes, and 50 businesses, the victims were stolen, most of whom never received the aid that was supposed to be for them, including millions of euros in personal donations, and many people even went hungry without access to food. These people, left without homes or anything else, were stolen by the mayor himself, his family and friends. They took practically all of the victims’ money, and in the end they were all acquitted by the farcical Poortuguese courts, as always! Portugal is a country of criminals and monsters like nowhere else in the world, starting with the endless criminals who are part of the state machine itself! Portugal is a truly odious country that seriously should and must be abolished because it has no use in the world except to shelter and protect criminals!

In Portugal, if you are swindled, you can’t even say you were robbed by a crook, because according to the authorities, you are defaming the honor of an honorable person, and you will pay dearly for that sin. The only name I can give to such a place is the land of Satan. Portugal is definitely the land of Satan! Run as fast as you can!

So, almost everything in Portugal turns out to be a scam in one way or another, starting with the very concept of Portugal as a developed and democratic “country”, which is a very dangerous fraud and a total lie that will trap your life.

The bottom line is that the scam is not just the endless individual crooks who proliferate in Portugal with impunity for a lifetime, the great scam is the very concept of Portugal as a normal, serious country that abides by the rule of law, which is an absolute lie, and the EXACT opposite is true.

Never set foot in Poortugal! Poortugal has only nightmares in store for you!

Portugal is a criminal state run by criminals for criminals, with the connivance of a brainless population. I can’t get any clearer than that! You have been informed.

If you pay more than 50 euros to any Portuguese, you’re probably paying too much for what you’re getting. (I’m not including salaries, of course).

It goes without saying that doing business in Portugal is walking on a minefield, to say the least. For all sorts of reasons.

Most Portuguese are like the low-cost version of a person: faulty and totally unreliable.

The Portuguese people remind me of an Italian movie from the 80s “Ugly, Dirty and Bad”, but without being funny.

The truth is that, behind the mask, the Portuguese are generally people of extremely bad quality on all levels.

The majority of the Portuguese population is communist to some degree, even those who vote for mainstream political parties are full of communist “ideals”. Most civil servants are affiliated to Portuguese Communist parties (yes, there are so many “flavors” of Communist parties in Portugal, even the Green Party, which in Portugal is not a genuine, independent Green Party at all, but just a proxy of the Portuguese Communist Party, which can also happen with other small political parties on the periphery).
There’s even a Communist Party every year! The TV channels and all the Portuguese media talk about it ad nauseam for several weeks and, until this communist party is over, they are always on TV! Even the comedians in Portugal are communists! (You just want to run away as fast as possible!)

Although I’m not talking about normal left-wing parties, I’m talking about extreme far left-wing parties that practice the abominable, genocidal and very dangerous doctrine of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism. Only in retarded Portugal…

I’ve never seen so many communist sickles in my life, they’re all over the streets on posters and billboards. If you don’t know better, you would think you were transported to the former Soviet Union, even many apartment blocks look like they came straight out of the former Iron Curtain countries. There’s no doubt that the communist doctrine fits like a glove with the deviant personality traits of most Portuguese (lack of character, envy, malice, losers…).

However, I must say that Portugal is an amalgamation of corrupt and crooks everywhere, so politically it’s all the same, even if there are one or two parties on the fringes of politics that may or may not be different. As a whole, I should say that there are no good or bad political parties, because they are all nauseatingly bad and corrupt to the bone, but that doesn’t mean that individually there aren’t people of integrity in all parties, who sooner or later are invariably silenced and marginalized by the overwhelming majority of sleazy crooks and cowards inside the party machines.

Deep down, this is how the whole of Portuguese society works, the bad constantly drives out the good, that is, the scoundrels and the mediocrities get fiercely together to push out those with integrity and talent, and unfortunately they succeed because human trash is the absolute majority in Portugal.

If you watch some Portuguese national TV channels and can endure the pain in your brain, you will see that all day long the Portuguese watch and adore news and pseudo-debates all day long about their corrupt and filthy football system and its crooks, including petty things like what the corrupt club president and other crooks had for breakfast or how they are spending their vacations, and the same goes for the thieving Portuguese corrupt politicians and mafia bankers who have stolen billions from the Portuguese and are never arrested. They watch television programs with sly hosts and pseudo comedians who make you cringe, with audiences populated by people who don’t even know how to clap, when they clap, they raise their elbows in the air as if they were about to take off.

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There is an absolutely promiscuous and corrupt relationship between Portuguese politics, football, banks and the Portuguese courts and their judges ensuring that these crooks are all well protected by the “law”. They all help each other getting richer and richer at the expense of the Portuguese and the EU taxpayers and the Portuguese becoming poorer and poorer, but the Portuguese population is so unbelievable stupid, that don’t even realize that it is their money that is being stolen, including the EU money, that is supposed to be smartly and rationally invested in their economy so that the Portuguese can have a better quality of life, instead they are increasingly getting poorer and poorer. As I said, they admire those who steal from them! If you ask any Portuguese, it seems that in Portugal there are no thieves, corrupt and crooks, but instead there are only very smart guys! And they even think it’s all very funny and they laugh about it! Hence the innate mental deficiency and ingrained dishonesty.

For the Portuguese, an intelligent person is not someone who creates wealth and value, but someone who steals.

And another terribly devastating thing for those who live in Portugal is that the memories of your life start to be permanently soiled by all the scum you meet along the way as you “try” to have a normal life there, and it’s even worse when you have problems. The more years you live in Portugal, the more the story of your life is soiled by all the Portuguese trash that surrounds you and suffocates you instead of creating happy memories. You don’t want that, it’s a sentence that no good person deserves! Run away, run away from Poortugal! The place where the devil lives!

For most Portuguese, just as a crook is seen as an intelligent person, an honest person is seen as a stupid person (and, of course, a potential prey).

There is no doubt that the majority of Portuguese people exhibit all the psychological traits of sociopaths (i.e. using/manipulating others for their own benefit, a total lack of human feelings, as well as utter contempt for the suffering of others).

One day I was in a restaurant, having dinner with my wife, when I happened to overhear the person next to me, among a group of friends, saying to his friend, who was talking about a company that seemed to me to be his competitor, that if he wanted, he could give him information about his competitor, since he was his client and had privileged access to that information, I don’t know what kind of information they were talking about, but obviously it is not to be shared with third parties. That’s right, having a business in Portugal is what you are subject to, and much more.

A Portuguese once told me in a casual conversation about government spending, “o dinheiros deles” which means “their money”. Unbelievable! This Portuguese doesn’t even know what taxes are and that there is no such thing as “THEIR money”, it is “OUR money”, the taxpayers’ money, the money of all Portuguese. With citizens of this caliber, no wonder Poortugal is such a mess!

Ironically, and completely oblivious to the seriousness and stupidity of what she was saying. Regarding Portugal, this person ended up telling the absolute truth! In Portugal, they literally make the money of the Portuguese people their own to steal and squander at will with real impunity (and with the agreement/consent of the majority of the population).

In fact, the corrupt politicians are the ones the Portuguese keep electing. The more corrupt and dirty they are, the more chances they have to get elected. It happens all the time!
Therefore, Portugal’s problems come from the root, from the population to the elites, and not the other way around. The corrupt elites are just a reflection/continuation of the mindset of the Poortuguese population, and in the end most of them are just competing for a chance to steal too. It’s a never ending cycle that feeds from the bottom up.

The most corrupt Poortuguese Prime Minister ever (at least as far as I know), who has stolen and damaged the country to the tune of billions of Euros, directly and indirectly for generations to come (but we’ll never know the real figure), has been elected twice in a row (and I’m sure that if he were to run again today, the very dumb Portuguese would mostly vote for this piece of trash again!) Needless to say, this criminal is completely free, lives in a luxurious villa by the sea, and everyone can see him jogging carefree through the streets and (amazingly!) signing autographs and posing for selfies with the very idiotic and dishonest Portuguese population, who treat him like a rock star instead of the scumbag he is, who stole the country and himself and bankrupted the country, which then had to be bailed out once again with the other people’s money, this time by the Troika (basically EU and US money, the money from OUR pockets (again!).
This criminal, like so many other countless despicable Portuguese thieves, both political and civilian, are not imprisoned or even tried for their real crimes, but (when they are) are only tried for insignificant trifles in completely sham trials that always end in nothing (just like a dictatorship, which is what it is!).

This criminal, if he were in the United States or another EU country, would already be sentenced probably to at least 10 life sentences! But in Poortugal he is a rock star! Need I say more about the total lack of morals (and intelligence) of the Portuguese people?

Portuguese people from all walks of life look at the biggest abnormalities that happen every day in their fetid country as if they were the most normal things possible.

Portugal produces no relevant wealth of any kind and contributes absolutely zero (in the grand scheme of things) to the progress of humanity (e.g. science, technology, art…). This is due to the fact that practically the entire Portuguese economy and society is based on deceit, fraud, theft, corruption, nepotism, cronyism, patronage, connivance and lies. This is what the Portuguese feed on.

It is no coincidence that everything the Portuguese touch turns into 💩.

Such an “economy” is absolutely unsustainable because it produces almost no value and only takes (steals) until there’s nothing left to steal.

Portugal is a country in a constant process of self-destruction.

While the world in general is on the verge of, and has already entered, an unprecedented era of exponential technological and human development, Portugal is a sinking boat with many holes, that has reached the point of no return!

If the progress of humanity depended on Portuguese society, we would all still be digging potatoes. However, real European countries of similar or smaller size have always contributed and continue to contribute immensely to the progress of humanity (e.g. Switzerland, Denmark, and so on). While Portugal mostly produces sh*tty people with two brain cells. As a matter of fact, practically everything is sh*tty in (Poo)tugal.

Poortugal is the biggest nest and the biggest scum factory in the world!

Portugal is an eternally sick (more like terminally ill) country, that needs to be permanently plugged into the life support machine (EU money) in order to survive. Taking Europe out of the equation, Portugal isn’t worth 2 euros.

If Germany is the locomotive 🚄 of Europe, then Poortugal is the ox cart 🐂 of Europe.

Portugal is a diabolical and deeply disturbing, insane “society” that will most likely seriously traumatize you if you don’t recognize it and get out in time, where everything is constantly pushing you down. Fortunately, that’s what this website is for, to warn people of the danger they are in.

Because deep down, what lies behind all this endless evil, cruelty and stupidity that is so uniquely Portuguese and has no parallel anywhere else in the world, is the existence of a pseudo-society that is actually made up of mostly crazy people, but who pass themselves off as perfectly normal people, yet constantly utter the most outrageous/idiotic statements and act in the most insane ways with the greatest naturalness. This goes all the way through society, from ordinary citizens to the highest public officials. In Portugal, the crazy people are the normal people, and the really normal people (with common sense, who speak the truth) are the ones who are labelled as crazy.

The words that best define life in Portugal: Chaos, Arbitrariness, Insanity.

Only integrity, brains and hard work make life and civilization evolve. In Portugal there is none, quite the opposite.

Basically, in Portugal we live surrounded by a dreadful society made up of vermin and profoundly imbecile people, making it impossible to have a pleasant and productive life there, more like trying to build a life in a cross between a madhouse and an open sewer (humanly speaking).

Intelligent people create value, while stupid people steal and cheat, which is why almost everyone in Portugal is a fraud.

In view of all this, to call the Portuguese human is an insult to humanity.

There was a car dealership owner who once told me, to my great shock, that “this prime minister only stole some money, but he didn’t hurt anyone. Didn’t hurt anyone?! Of course not, he and his friends simply stole and damaged the country to the tune of innumerable billions of euros through corrupt contracts! But even if he had stolen 100 euros, it would be a crime that indicated that he was not a trustworthy person, and therefore, evidently, could not continue to exercise the functions of Prime Minister of Portugal. I really can’t understand and classify this kind of reaction, which is very typical of the Portuguese. It certainly reveals a mixture of mental deficiency and deep-rooted dishonesty. Imagine what it would be like to buy a car from this imbecile as well of course, a crook.

If you listen to, or even worse, watch Portuguese popular music (música pimba), almost all of it will cause you excruciating brain pain, yet most Portuguese people love it. That explains a lot!

There are no perfect countries, far from it, and of course there are such people in every country, but the big difference is that in Portugal it is endemic, it is the norm, the ratio of bad people to good people is completely reversed in Portugal compared to a developed country, from my anecdotal experience, approximately 95% of the Portuguese manifest some degree of these very serious character flaws, and therefore only around 5% of the population is genuinely trustworthy, reliable, upright and who really care about the dire situation, but very unfortunately totally powerless to change anything against such an overwhelming majority of bad people and useful idiots. Of course, not all of the 95% are active crooks but they are conniving and have the same attitude and as such they are somehow weak, passive, cowards, envious, simpletons, disinterested, selfish, callous, dishonest, very stupid, indifferent to evil, thieves by opportunity, lacking morals people, who always look the other way (therefore, most of them end up being the same in terms of (lack of) moral values and crook mindset), which makes them just as guilty/responsible and just as much a part of the problem because they let it all happen under their noses and don’t know or even care about exercising their rights and using their vote to their advantage (i.e. punishing corrupt politicians and fighting the criminals who have taken over their country and monstrous injustices by any (within reason) means necessary. That is, to man up!).

These people exhibit all the characteristics of the numb, meek, apathetic, uncritical, submissive citizens of a third world dictatorship country, but with some very perverse quirks that are so typical of the Portuguese population, which is why when you arrive in Portugal you are in for a big shock (that is, when you leave the tourist circuit) you’ll think you’ve fallen out of Europe, and indeed truly you have, European civilization stops in Spain, many places in Portugal look like an extension of Morocco, perhaps even half of the Portuguese population looks like North Africans to me (which, of course, I am not intending as a good or bad thing, it’s just a personal observation, but I am making it clear so as not to be misunderstood), and of course people’s appearance is totally irrelevant, what counts is their integrity. 100%!

Qualities of the Portuguese (in general): Very unfortunately I can’t think of any, but they are usually very friendly in the tourist sector, or in casual conversations, unfortunately this is all superficial, because when you (really) need them and the system you only have problems that can become very dangerous, as was the case with me, although I can mention that the food is really good, at least for my taste, but only if you are lucky enough to know the very few good restaurants, because the norm is plenty of scams and mediocrity (as well as poor hygiene and food unfit for consumption) in the catering sector like, not surprisingly, almost everything in Portugal.

I’ve also had occasional encounters with helpful, competent and polite Portuguese, but that only proves the rule.

I MUST point out that there are always EXCEPTIONS to EVERYTHING I say that is bad about Portugal and the Portuguese people!

So, of course it’s not all bad in Portugal, there are many positive and pleasant aspects, but unfortunately in the face of all that is very bad and the big picture, these positive things end up being totally irrelevant. Portugal could be splendid, but without the Portuguese people (i.e. the general crookedness and callousness of 95% of the population).

Portugal is not the beaches, Portugal is the Portuguese people.

However, in the end what makes a Portuguese is not the place where he/she was born, but rather having a so typical Portuguese “twisted” evil and callous mentality.

For me, decent people don’t even have a nationality, we are all fundamentally the same, but unique.

When I talk about decent people, I don’t mean perfect people, I personally have many more faults than qualities, I’m just not dishonest and I distinguish good from evil, which is what makes us human in the end.

So, obviously there are decent, honest, hardworking, very intelligent, competent and talented people in Portugal who work very hard, usually just to survive (due to the very toxic and vicious environment that crushes them on a daily basis), not to live, although they are rare gems, and this article is not about them.

The (genuinely and not superficially) honest people in Portugal are so rare that you can’t find them or even know who they are, and even if you do find them, they are not much help in the midst of all the rot that exists in Portugal. (they need help too)

The decent Portuguese who really care are a very tiny minority in a sea of unscrupulous people and nitwits, so it’s impossible to win! You have my full sympathy, and I personally say, if you are a good person, you don’t deserve to waste your life in that hellhole, which will inevitably cancel you out as a unique and valuable human being, one way or another, sooner or later! Portugal is a dystopian society that will surely crush all your dreams and will never let you to be you!

Portugal is the country of death! Everything withers and dies, nothing flourishes and your happiness is the first to die!

It is a fact that many people in Portugal sooner or later suffer a catastrophic and irreversible blow to their lives, from which they can never recover, because the country abandons them, or rather, is not even there for them.

It should also be noted that the human quality in Portugal is deteriorating instead of improving, since most of the decent people leave the country as soon as they have a chance.

The only good plan to have in Portugal is the plan to escape Portugal. Any other plan will only lead you ultimately into a black hole that will be very difficult to get out of.

The big problem is that when you are in Portugal, you can only turn to Portuguese people for important matters, right up to the last resort, and they will more often than not they will just make your problems worse instead of helping you out (individually and collectively speaking), and that’s why you are always getting more and more screwed in Portugal, because you can only deal with Portuguese people and Portuguese institutions all the time. In most cases, if you are dependent on Portuguese people (for important issues), your life is sure to become a living hell without you ever being able to solve your problem.

It’s you alone against an entire country that genuinely doesn’t give a damn about you and wants to see you fail.

As a rule, you can never make a wrong right in Portugal, the wrong just gets wronger and wronger (the more serious the matter, the worse), which puts you in a limbo of eternal terrible suffering.

That is, in Portugal you only get (more) problems, you never solve problems, especially the serious ones.

I wonder how Mother Nature could have done something as bad as the Portuguese. (for the most part)

We don’t get many shots in life, so be very careful with Poortugal, because the least that will happen to you once you get there is that you are guaranteed to become impoverished and waste a large part of your resources, precious years of your life, as well as your mental sanity, because nobody who is honest, competent, and hardworking can become even relatively wealthy in Portugal. Unfortunately, this may make it even more difficult for you to leave. Poortugal is like quicksand, once you fall into this shit, it can become very difficult to get out (that is, in good standing) if you run out of resources.

The longer you stay in Poortugal, the poorer you become.

I have certainly met many friendly people in Portugal, but that doesn’t mean that they are trustworthy and will act in good faith and with due diligence to help you when you need them. There’s a big difference between sitting on a beautiful terrace, soaking up the sun, drinking a cold beer and being attended to by a friendly waiter, or needing service and having to rely on a Portuguese person or institution. Depending on the severity of the situation, your life can be destroyed in the blink of an eye and you’ll never see it coming, as was my case.

There’s a world of difference between being nice and being an inherently righteous person. Never mistake one for the other.

What makes Portugal so dangerous is that, at first glance and on the surface (I’ve had many wonderful times in Portugal and I miss the sea, the food and the sun, because Portugal, in my opinion, is sincerely REALLY great as a region and full of untapped potential (unfortunately, its natural beauty is very badly managed and taken advantage of), but as I said before, without the Portuguese people), it seems like a very nice place to live in; Nice people (on the surface), pleasant weather, lots of sunshine, great beaches from north to south and good food (in the few places), but that’s not enough to offset the atmosphere of extreme mediocrity, ineptitude, envy and legalized crookedness among the general population, which can literally reach any degree of severity, and which from the outset prevents you from being what you want to be, regardless of all your abilities and efforts, the anti-democratic institutions that don’t work at all when and where it really matters, public institutions infested and run by corrupt and very incompetent and lazy people, a downright fraudulent and corrupt judicial system that exists to serve itself and its corrupt political and civil “friends”, therefore to protect the scum and punish the good citizens just like in a dictatorship, which IT IS, since Portugal’s supposedly democratic institutions have been completely usurped by the corrupt, the criminal and the mediocre (and the Portuguese don’t mind one bit about it, because they are equal). Needless to say, all of this poses a great danger to your life and makes your life in Portugal extremely tenuous and ultimately pointless.

Warning. Extremely dangerous! In Portugal you have no real democratic, civil or human rights! IT’S ALL FAKE !!! The reason for this ignominious situation is the Portuguese themselves, who have undermined democracy and the rule of law, because most of them are, morally speaking, rats in sheepskins, scattered throughout all layers of Portuguese society. This Portuguese stinking shitocracy is the “great” creation of the Portuguese, and IT IS the spitting image of the very low quality of the Portuguese people in general. Poortugal is sinking in its own shit and stupidity!

Be warned! In a nutshell, Portugal is overwhelmingly a country of criminals and criminally minded people.

To put it bluntly, Portugal is nothing more than a tyrannical mafia of countless criminals who dictate the country and fiercely protect countless other criminals, with the total connivance of almost an entire population that is the same, actively or passively. If Portugal wasn’t a country that cowardly takes refuge in its sovereignty, it would have been dismantled long ago as the criminal organization that it is, and probably half of its population, made up of “legalized” criminals and crooks, would be behind bars or suffering some kind of legal penalties, or else interned in asylums! This is Portugal and it’s absolutely true! You have been warned, don’t believe it at your own peril.

The best gift I can give you is that you now know. And so you can defend yourself.

I didn’t have anyone to warn me!

And in the end, I realise that I can only describe 1% of what it’s like to live in Poortugal in this entire blog, because there are no words in the dictionary, in any dictionary in the world, that are strong enough to describe and classify the true reality of what it’s like to live in Poortugal, surrounded and dependent on these creatures of darkness for years and years, for any decent person with more than two brain cells in their head. Even if the blog one day has a million articles about Poortugal and the Portuguese, it will never be able to convey the true, enormous and agonising terror of living in this hellhole surrounded by these damned creatures of darkness called Portuguese, where only a creature of darkness could enjoy living.

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This is the latest new low. Portuguese politician caught stealing luggage at the airport: https://www.jn.pt/5053298241/deputado-do-chega-suspeito-de-furtar-malas-em-voos-para-o-parlamento/

It’s unbelievable, the politician sold the clothes and shoes at Vinted, for 1,50€ each…how low a person can be? Throw away a career and trust for robbed pennies. I know that Açores has a very low cost of life but wow, this is another level really….just wild.

So here’s my story of France versus Portugal…

I work online (as a translator) and I was living in Lille, France, but I wasn’t earning enough money to finish the month, and I was talking about this with someone who had spent 3 months in Portugal….

Long story short, they convinced me Portugal was a lot less expensive than France and I should give it a try

And so I did, but after only six months in Portugal I got scammed a number of times, something that had never happened to me in France, in my entire life

I was already thinking about leaving, and then I saw this video “Lille Je t’aime” (I love you Lille) by a young French woman who regretted having to leave her hometown of Lille and she hoped to return as soon as possible

Watching this video convinced that I had made a mistake and there was nothing in Portugal that could even begin to compare to the beauty of Lille, or the people who live there, and so I decided then and there to move back home, I knew I was better off in France with almost no money, than I would ever be living in Portugal, surrounded by crooks, con artists, and scammers

So I left Portugal, I’m back in France now, I will never return to Portugal, and leaving there was the best decision I ever made in my life

Now I’m encouraging everyone I meet to avoid Portugal. And some of them are listening to me

Best wishes to everyone reading this blog…. my advice is to get out of Portugal if you can and if you’re not in Portugal, don’t even think about going there. Avoid it like the plague!

Here’s the video that inspired me to leave Portugal. I’m sorry it’s only in French but it’s almost like an inspiring music video, so you can get the idea of Lille (compared to Portugal) even if you don’t understand a single word of French

https://www.lesfeesdufle.com/video-lille-je-taime.html

(Note: To watch the video above, you have to scroll down below the picture of the young woman who made it (sitting on the stairs) and click on the left side above where it says “Video Originale” The video to the right has sub-titles, but they’re only in French and the music on that one also seems distorted)

Bravo! And I couldn’t have said it any better….

Congratulations on getting the hell out of that land of monsters and retards!

And let’s keep warning others to never set foot in Portugal

Lille is a very civilized and beautiful city, you’ll be much happier there than you would ever be in Portugal

And only God / Omnipotent indeed / Knew that the Portuguese were mammals / Of a different breed.

– anonymous

Portuguese LIVRO DE RECLAMAÇÕES website is deeply technically corrupt and is clearly discriminating based on your name, account and your situation! I have tested it for years and I can state that they will block you from submitting inquiries and complaints if they want to. The way they do it: upon submission of the complaint or inquiry online (say about the delayed or lost mail piece or a parcel sent via CTT) the SEND/SUBMIT button is being “rolled” (“wait” feature) indefinitely. It’s been lie this for many years and they never fixed it. How can one submit a complaint on the Complaints Book if it does not work? How is this even legal to deny a Portuguese citizen or a resident their right to have their lost mail to be investigated or to submit any kind of consumer complaints? Whom to complain to about this issue?

I will probably get a lot of hate for this post but do you (or anyone reading this) think it’s possible to live here as an expat on a good foreign income and not be corrupted by the society? My husband wanted to move here for the tax break. He has a finance company and I work remotely as professional in the U.K. We feel quite rich here and live in the “expat bubble” (which is pretty grim as a social group but that is not the point of this post). Despite being so insulated we have already been scammed out of 000s by an awful expat woman who had been living here for 30 years. Everything you say in the blog applies to her even though she is German. I am worried that living here will slowly turn me into someone like that and that it’s impossible to live somewhere like this without risk. I have also lost a perfectly healthy tooth to a dentist who then tried to trick me into a very expensive implant – she was also an expat who had been here for decades. I grew up in the U.K. –
I had never been scammed in 30+ years and here it has happened twice in one year in Lisbon.
My experience outside of Lisbon has been much better but obviously I was a visitor. I don’t drive so I take the bus out of the city whenever I can and have enjoyed the genuinely kind and beautiful rural communities in the remote parts of this country. Generally, though, I am afraid for my future. I am worried that my husband is so dazzled by the lack of tax that I will have to stay here for decades. I want to protect myself from the mentality, depression and the scamming. I have seen a kind, expat friend of mine be destroyed by this country in under a year (he started a business here and is now leaving without his life savings).
But, if money isn’t a really concern, does anyone think it’s possible to live here and be ok?
Thank you for this blog, it is really helping people and I can see that there are posts with issues infinitely worse than mine.

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Hello Reva, I’ve read your comment and it remembered me that once I had the same doubt and questions that you have (about 3 years ago). I agree with the Blog’s Author that if one is a good and honest person, this country can’t change that, but specially if one is like that will not be able to endure this crazy society. Because it bothers too much to the point of a person become paranoid thinking that everyone is trying to scam or lying. A person to be happy here must be a person who doesn’t worry about the lack of justice, healthcare, social living, poor constructions (even with toxic material as lead), who don’t worry about a government that hides and lies everything, even the newspapers aren’t real newspaper, it’s absurd. A person needs to be totally ok with all that to be happy here. I really don’t imagine anyone to be happy here unless a person that had an awful poor life like many that come from Africa and Brazil. These are the ones that can endure most of it because they are more used to the same related things in their country. I’m from Brazil but I must say that even my country, a third world country, if you study and work hard you can have a good life regarding private healthcare, judicial system, social living, freedom of press and opinions, constructions,all are much more developed there. Unfortunately as all third world countries has extreme inequalities, and a high number of people are very very poor, just living with low wages and public healthcare. Those are the ones that find Portugal a better place to live. But for the rest of the people, in my opinion should run away from here. I do hope me and my family will be able to move somewhere else next year. Take care and wish you and your family well.

Thank you for replying, I appreciate it and your work with the blog

POORtugal is only good for one thing: the climate. If not warm climate I would never set my foot on this scammer, fraud and thief den.

Almost everyone in Poortugal are involved in stealing mail and theft in general (occasional exceptions apply). Bank managers, post office workers, cashiers, workers, politicians, everyone’s at it. It’s terrible! And no one’s doing anything to resolve the situation and to punish the thieves since almost everyone is a (potential) thief.

The comment below was found one of the few Facebook groups that even allows criticism of Portugal, without getting censored or banned. It’s about AIMA (formerly SEF) and how it’s impossible even to get an appointment with AIMA, to renew a Portugal residency card

And at the end, speaking as a French citizen who already lived in Portugal, and then decided to leave, and to never return, I have my own comment / solution to offer anyone who is thinking about living in Portugal

First, here’s the Facebook comment I found:

“Its the initial appointment for residency, and the first renewal. Most immigrants (80% according to the government) don’t make it to 5 years in Portugal, so most don’t apply for permanent residency, they leave.
People can’t get appointments at AIMA (to renew their residency cards) because they simply don’t exist – AIMA literally closed them all down. It’s not that they are all booked up, its that they have none at all.
The only way a lawyer can help to (legally) get a renewal appointment is for you to literally SUE AIMA. It costs between €1500-€6k, depending on the lawyer, just to lodge the suit. And the courts were getting so many (hundreds a day), that they suspended them, then slowed the system. So now some people are still suing, yet still waiting for appointments and paying their lawyers more and more while waiting.
There were people who were paying lawyers to get appointments successfully for them last year and earlier this year, but those lawyers were doing this illegally, by booking out a bunch of appointments in the online system with fake details and charging people to get them. Many lawyers were caught hiring teams of people to do this, and AIMA closed down the online appointment booking system for this reason – it hasnt opened since.
AIMA has only just started contacting people in the past couple of weeks to make appointments with them directly. But its only a handful of people so far. Theres a backlog of hundreds of thousands (400,000 just in ONE visa category), and this has been going on for ten years.”

end of Facebook comment

And here’s my reaction to the comment above and my solution to the problem being discussed…. The ONLY solution is don’t even think about trying to renew a Portuguese residency card. Leave Portugal as soon as possible, and never return! Also, try to warn others to never go there in the first place. It’s a broken, dysfunctional, third world country (although Portugal is actually a lot worse than any African country I’ve visited, so you have to call it a “fourth world shit-hole” and NOT a third world country because this is not fair to third world countries, where many of the people are smiling, warm and friendly, unlike the Portuguese) ….the Portuguese people are vicious, small-minded and mean-spirited and the only thing they’re interested in is ripping off foreigners for every euro they can steal from you

P💩💩RTUGAL, I’m out of this damn hole!!

I’m Portuguese, I’m 25 years old and I sent Poortugal to fu*k, I live in Dresden in Germany (you’re good, hardworking and ambitious, so Germany gives you everything)!!! POORTUGAL has nothing but thieves, crooks and corrupt people, and a lot of injustice joining the party, and a zombie people, the Portuguese people are perfect for living in dictatorships!!! In 2022 I finished my degree in International Relations, with a miserable salary, my future was doomed. Me and 3 other colleagues from the University are now all living and working in Germany and the company where we work pays for our German course, we pay our bills, we manage to save money and travel around Europe which is all connected by TGV lines and trains and in 2 hours you are in any capital in Europe, Portugal is isolated from all of Europe, I believe it’s even on purpose to keep the people stupid, all of Portugal is incredibly mediocre!!! By the way, my father, the owner of a construction company, was robbed by two crooked partners, the company was embezzled, my father never saw the money again and closed the company and now lives on a shitty pension. Justice??? There is no justice in Poortugal, if you have money Poortugal is the most dangerous place to live. I will never go back to that place! I like your blog 👏 when I read the comments here on the blog, from Portuguese (Portuguese scum), this blog makes perfect sense!!!!!!!!

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Sou português tenho 25 anos e mandei Poortugal pro car*lho, vivo em Dresden na Alemanha (tu és bom, trabalhador e ambicioso, então a Alemanha dá-te Tudo)!!! POORTUGAL só tem ladrões, vigaristas e corruptos e a juntar à festa muita injustiça e um povo zombie, o povo português é perfeito para viver em ditaduras!! Em 2022 terminei meu curso de Relações Internacionais, salário miserável, meu futuro estava condenado. Eu e mais 3 colegas da Universidade estamos então todos a viver e a trabalhar na Alemanha e a empresa onde estamos a trabalhar paga-nos o curso de Alemão, pagamos as nossas contas, conseguimos poupar dinheiro e viajar pela Europa que está toda ligada por linhas de Tgv e comboios e em 2 horas estás em qualquer capital da Europa , Portugal está isolado de toda a Europa, acredito que até seja de propósito que manter o povo estúpido, todo Portugal é incrivelmente medíocre!!! A propósito, meu pai dono de uma empresa de construção civil, foi roubado por dois socios vigaristas, um desfalque na empresa, meu pai nunca mais viu o dinheiro e fechou a empresa e vive agora com uma reforma de merda. Justiça??? Em Poortugal não existe, se tens dinheiro Poortugal é o lugar mais perigoso para viveres. Nunca mais voltarei para aquele lugar! Gosto do teu Blog 👏 quando leio os comentários aqui no blog de portugueses (escumalha portuguesa), faz todo o sentido este blog!!!!!!!!

I left Portugal, I was 48 years old, today I’m 67. It’s never too late… I’ve lived in Germany since then, Portugal is a destroyer of lives!!! I was wronged by the Portuguese courts, you are fucked in Portugal when your life depends on the decision of a son of a bitch, corrupt and full of inferiority complexes, they are always on the side of the infinite swindlers and thieves of Poortugal, that is how the Portuguese judges are. .. Living in Poortugal is living in darkness, with people with a cave mentality… POORTUGAL is a pathetic place, yes I can’t say that that place is a country. I like this blog 👏👏👏

Show up your face clown. You can cry out, it’s free. And those people who you cry for , they wont certainly come back.

What a bunch of useless suckers yall British are. You write so much like a journalist but you don’t even mention your name. Come on , don’t be afraid to hide the fragility of your eggs.

I will keep coming here to fuck you all and make sure you get beaten every single time you step in Portugal.

England is a sold land btw. Blacks and Indians are fuckin your British obese women in both holes daily and you’re more interested in save other countries social problems.

Y’all so fuckin useless and ugly.

It’s not worth staying like this because it doesn’t solve anything. Have you noticed that Portugal has also been sold to immigrants? And do you think that some Portuguese women aren’t with men of another race? Are you blind or do you live in a hole?

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Nao vale apena ficares assim porque nao resolve nada. Ja notaste que Portugal também foi vendida pros imigrantes? E achas que algumas mulheres portuguesas nao estao com homens de outra raça? Estas sego ou vives num buraco

How ugly to disrespect women from another nation.

I’m sorry for you. at the same time, I can’t accept more from people like you. Always the truth is painful. Educate yourself to accept the reality.

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First of all I would like to congratulate the author of this blog, because all the information here is very true to reality. Sorry if my english is not very good like yours, but I would like to comment here my experience as a Brazilian immigrant for 6 years (struggling!). When my husband saw one mention to this blog on X (twitter) and we began to read all the amazingly written articles, I’ve almost cried because I was thinking that I was paranoid or getting mentally ill for disliking here so much for the same reasons you explained here. We are both IT engineers, very experienced in our fields, and when our second daughter was born in Brazil (6 years ago) we decided to leave there for a developed country, less violent and give a more slow paced life for our daughters.

We thought at first that Portugal was kind of developed, not at first sight though, with all the neglected and abandoned buildings. We have a good friend that is Italian and he advised us to not go to Portugal. But when we were here at vacations, we thought it could be a nice place to slow down, but oh how we were soo wrong! We slowly realized that portuguese are more crooks than brazilians, as I’ve never experienced any of the bad things that happens here everyday.

First, my husband and I have a bachelor’s degree in IT and had worked in our fields since we had 19 years old, we have now 40, so we are very experienced professionals. My husband had to listen in interviews that he was much experienced and they could not afford him? (What?) The IT systems here are a total joke, it’s like Brazil in 1980’s, it’s the most terrible we ever saw, so under developed, that is hard to believe this country is part of EU. My husband was offered salaries that goes to 900 to 1400 euros. What? Then we started to realize that everything in this country is like a mob or mafia, like everything is a scam. So the IT field also is a big scam, like all the other professions here. The outsorcing companies that hire the IT professionals, pays nothing to the professionals but receives a lot of money from the companies that they outsource the employers.

We started to realize how the comunism works here, it’s like all the citizens are modern slaves to the crooks and their peers that controls the country. We live in Sintra, an area outside Lisbon, because the crooks are raising the renting prices like skyrockets, like the salary here is a joke for qualified professionals. But the scam is that new constructions are dead because the government does not allow for new buildings, so we immigrants and passive portuguese people are like hostages to them, so we have to pay the insane prices that they charge, and also comply with their illegalities of not even register the rental in Autoridade Finanças.

Because we don’t have options here, where would we go? Most apartments are closed and no new constructions so they can do whatever they want with the “hostages”, us. We started to realized how mistaken we were about here, and that this place is a madhouse. And we came from a third world country! And even there (Brazil), the law applies, we had great salaries, we had options for renting, we had great private healtcare, we had a great life, apart from the violence that causes anxiety. I imagine the people that comes here from UK, Germany, Netherlands and other developed countries, must be a shock!

The private healthcare here is outrageous, is a complete joke! Again we realized that was another scam, another mob, the healthcare mafia. We pay large amounts of money for cr*p doctors and nurses and cr*p hospitals, it is so bad that is giving me anxiety of falling ill and die of ommission of healthcare. I’ve never experienced that in Brazil, and would not imagine that in a place that calls itself a developed country. And I’m not even talking about public healthcare, that is a tragedy. But worse than the public is that the private are expensive (more than the others EU contries) and the quality is worse than Africa (maybe?).

We had great news from our bloodsucker (the tender nickname for our “senhorio”) that we were paying too low 900euros for month (to listen my neighbors pee and burp everyday, or my “polite” neighbor who washes her clothes at 2am in the morning, a place full of dog crap in the sidewalks, ugly graffitis and trash everywhere, all this for “just” 900euros) and he decided to raise more 150euros, like him said – “It’s just 150 euros, it’s nothing!” – In my country there’s an index number that guides the raising of rentals and real state contracts, it’s called IGP-M, but here in Portugal everything is arbitrary, like I’ve never seen this in my life! My god, now we’re hostages here (that’s what I call the people who get stucked here against their own will), because my husband’s residence permit renewal is delayed, as it’s totally a mess here, since they changed SEF to worst AIMA. It’s a complete nightmare. They don’t say anything to immigrants, they don’t give information, just says that is delayed but is valid (what the hell?).

So in the meantime we have to wait for these portuguese people to decide to work (because they don’t like to work, they avoid work like a plague, and they hate to study and be great professionals, they prefer to stay always average) and renewal his permit, so we can leave to a normal place before we’ll go insane. This is a place for passive and comunist people who hate to work and are dead inside, they don’t have ambition for nothing, or any business. What they like is living life at a minimum just not working and living at victim costs, the immigrants who come here because they do a lot of “propaganda” and they get money from us. I have this constant feeling that I’m living in Moldova, Russia or Cuba, it’s terrible! I am really greatful for this blog, for showing that we are not crazy and this country is f*cked up completely. Thank you for letting me to unburden here. Wish you and your family well. Best regards, Patricia.

Thank you so much for your kind words and for helping us to spread our experiences to the world. So more and more people can really have an idea about what Portugal is, not the Portugal sold in expats websites. I love reading the experiences of others and can relate to many of them, it gives me some comfort knowing that I’m not the only one who sees Portugal beyond the facade. Thank you

Here’s my advice, because that’s what I did 2 years ago (with little money in my pocket): DON’T STAY IN PORTUGAL. Portugal is a place for meek, dreamless and passive people and also the thousands and thousands and thousands of swindlers who make a career, Swindlers in dental clinics, real estate agencies, car dealerships, lawyers, politicians… Everything in Portugal can be a scam … It may seem like it’s difficult and complicated to leave, especially if you don’t have money, but when I turned my back on Portugal (a shitty place) I felt freedom and relief… I’ll never go back!!! By the way, I’m Portuguese and I was wronged in court by a son of a bitch judge who ruled in favor of a swindler who robbed me, (I also had a signed contract, just like your case), YES, in Portugal it’s legal to go bankrupt and thus evade justice, con artists in Portugal open and close companies, and leave thousands of victims along the way… 😡😡😡 And the son of a bitch judge decides to ruin your life with a smile on his lips… YES, POORTUGAL HAS THE PEACE OF COWARDS!!!

I have been in court. Had a biased judge, me a foreigner against a wealthy Portuguese family. A lost case. Shared everything with the EU. Got emails back from them. I thought I was protected by EU laws. How wrong could I have been. How naive. Brussels is not interested. Maybe if we collect all our horror stories and go to the newspapers and/or to Brussels. Portugal took me a lot.

I feel you, if I give you some money would you be able to leave the country? Clearly it has destroyed your sanity, just reading through your texts I’m not sure if this is from a troll or a sane person, anyone can see that. Anyway, what do you want to do?

Oh Lili, you clearly don’t know that he is fortunate to not live in LaLaLand Portugal anymore. He is back to his developed country after living in this Moldova’s cousin country. I’m really glad that he and his family got out because they deserve to be happy after the emotional roller coaster they were in. But of course, if you’re a Tuga than you think that everything that happens (and don’t happen) in Portugal is normal. Even so if you haven’t never set a foot in the neighbor Spain or other EU country, as many of you never crossed the border even for vacation. That’s very good for your government, ignorance is a treasure for the crooks to continue slaving and dominating you like in a communist society. The author of this blog is doing an important service to the world, exposing the real Portugal, not the one that is sold in “expats” websites and realtors fake forums. This Portugal DOES NOT exists. What exists is an underdeveloped communist depressing country that lives underneath the propaganda and the lies. I’m sorry but Portuguese will continue to do nothing to change it and will continue to emigrate in masses. This situation will never change. It’s a shame because the weather is nice, oh well.

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Portugal is the best place to live. Not without problems, but if you have an independent income or if you can live on a little salary, it’s a great place to live. Where in the world you can live in a moderate house of your own and pay zero property tax? And where in the world can you pay social tariff for electricity if your income is not great? And where in the world after age 55 you can receive free and subsidized health care? Where in the developed world can you live off €600 per month other than in the Azores? No property tax, no tax if you’re not rich, no heating or cooling bill and you can grow your own food.

The Azores are incredibly poor. Even by Portuguese standards. Unemployment is very high. If by “independent income” you mean you have contracts abroad that pull a nice sum of money, or a good retirement fund, then yes, you can make a very nice living, even in the Azores.

Just know most Portuguese people are barely scraping by, especially now that housing and the cost of living have been inflated by golden visas, digital nomads and the like. Social welfare systems are also on the brink of collapse.

Portugal has always been poor. It’s intentionally kept that way by a handful of elite families and technocrat up and comers, and the populace is too meek and/or uneducated to do anything about it.

Sure, of course, I respect all reasonable opinions and experiences. What would be the BEST country in the European Union to live for self employed people with a small monthly income of €1000 or even less?

I have read almost all the comments. Based on my personal and family experience in this country, one question has been bothering me a lot: why is it that despite my constant efforts to be friendly with the people here to avoid any problems, the closer I got to them and the more kindness I showed, the more I ended up being hurt by them for no reason? Here, everyone seems to be thinking about destroying each other. A good Portuguese person is a — Portuguese because they can’t harm anyone. I truly apologize for the things I’ve said, which lacked any feelings of love and affection.

Very jealous and spiteful people, if they feel that you are better than them in any field, their jealousy tentacles will start moving and they will start destroying you with everything they have. *Please stay away from this country*

Portuguese “passive aggressive” malicious scamming behaviour reflects very much in African countries behaviour, who are extremely greedy and unreasonable.

Golpistas maliciosos! Malicious scammers! In most life spheres and services in Portugal!

At the CONT*NENTE store in Portugal we have experienced the following behaviours by the cashiers:

Giving less change, sometimes a few cents and sometimes entire €1. When asked why they do it, they respond that things like that happen and then after that comment still shortchange me again at the spot without blinking. Professionals!

Then another cashier would lean something heavy on the scales that weigh groceries, veggies and fruits and even push it down by hand while weighing groceries for us thus ending up in a much higher cost. Of course, I have noticed and asked to weigh it again, but they do it in a very cold blood and with a friendly attitude. Sometimes they would say their salary is too small to care. So sometimes I would let them have a few cents here and there.

In general many or most businesses run their business without proper documentation etc. and I as a consumer and a customer have improved many such Portuguese businesses, who now have proper technique and forms, more or less. So instead of moving out of the country I help them or even make them to improve their act and professionalism. In other words, customers must train their Portuguese professionals, cause many Portuguese business owners do not care to train their staff, all they care is to make money without providing decent living for their employees and training them.

As Germans would say: Must haff propah toollez!!

In Portugal football comes first and politics comes second. It’s corrupt football that controls the country, not corrupt politicians. Mess with one of them or their family and they will harass you and make your life an entire hell. No wonder many footballers are being sold to tyrannical countries these days. But then they like to show off how charitable they are to pretend otherwise because all they have is money.

Plus, the easiest way to get a job in a highly competitive society where the lacking of jobs is high like Portugal, is to get into football, through the sport itself or through relatives connected to it.

Beware of Poortuguese dentists! Stay away!

For years I have been criticizing the Portuguese postal service (CTT) on a Facebook group called “Denúncias CTT/CTT Expresso” (with over 6000 members). CTT has been privatized in 2014 and has been riddled with incompetence and problems. The Portuguese would heavily criticize CTT and the group would accept their posts since the group was created to post CTT/CTT Expresso Complaints. But wait! It is okay for the Portuguese to criticize their own postal service, but NOT for foreigners or immigrants! No way! You’re not allowed as long as you’re not a Portuguese. Thus I was banned from the group even if I provided documented proof of incompetence and I did not break any rules of the group. The guys who would post severe criticisms about CTT on the group would attack me for no reason when I did the same. I have noticed this behaviour among the Portguese when they discriminate foreigners either in a good or a bad way. This prevents immigrants from integrating into the Portuguese society.

“Only people with a Portuguese mindset can live in Portugal. That is to be a crook or a person without dreams, resigned and indifferent to evil.” I can understand why crooks and thieves in Portugal are taking holidays, living in luxury homes, jogging by the sea in Ericeira or being re-elected to government positions, because the portuguese society is rotten, it is a breeding ground for bloodsucking lawyers and judges without moral values, and thieving “businessmen” who make a career out of it…

“Nothing happens in Portugal; “there is no drama; everything is intrigue and plot,” wrote someone in graffiti along the wall of a Santa Catarina staircase leading down to the Bica lift. Nothing happens; that is, nothing is inscribed – in history, individual existence, social life, or on an artistic level. Perhaps that’s why the most solid and traditional studies in Portugal are those that refer to the historical past, in a desperate desire to inscribe, to record, to give consistency to what tends incessantly to fade away (and which, by all rights, has already been inscribed – but where?). Curiously, that graffiti tried to inscribe the impossibility of inscribing…

We’ll discuss later the legitimacy of talking about the “Portuguese” as a single, undifferentiated entity, which poses many problems. We’ll assume that these have been partly resolved. Let’s note, for the moment, that all Portuguese people constantly talk about the “Portuguese” who “are like this” or “like that.” This entity exists and deserves to be considered even as fiction or an illusion of opinion.
Portuguese non-inscription differs from other countries in its generality and the mechanisms by which it proceeds. For example, after the Second World War, the Germans refused to include the Third Reich and Nazism in their existence, as well as in their history. For decades, high school history textbooks reduced them to an “episode” mentioned in ten or twenty lines. This “blank” or invisible gap, or non-inscription, is (still) having unpredictable effects on German society, and it’s certainly not unrelated to the rise of neo-Nazism.

In a completely different way, April 25th refused to inscribe the 48 years of Salazarist authoritarianism in reality.

There were no trials of Pides or those responsible for the old regime. On the contrary, an immense pardon veiled the repressive, emasculating, and humiliating reality from which we came. It was as if the affirmative exaltation of the “Revolution” could sweep away this dark past in one fell swoop. This is how the colonial war, the vexations, the crimes, the culture of fear, and the mediocre smallness that Salazarism engendered were obliterated from our consciences and our lives. But you can’t build a “white” (psychic or historical), eliminate reality and the forces that produce it without the same or other stigmas reappearing here and there, bearing witness to what you wanted to erase and which insists on remaining.

When mourning doesn’t inscribe the loss of an affective bond (a force) in reality, the dead and death will haunt the living relentlessly.
In another respect, the non-inscription seems more severe because it has yet to liquidate itself since we inherited it from Salazarism.
If, in a certain sense, it was said until recently (today it is said a lot) that “nothing has changed” despite the freedoms that have been won, it is because much has been inherited and remains of the old inertias and mentalities from the dictatorship era: from fear, which survives in other forms, to the “irresponsibility” that still predominates in Portuguese behavior.

In Salazar’s time, “nothing happened” by excellence. While mired in a pervasive and omnipresent evil, individual existence never came to life’s surface. And what was life at that time? Salazarism’s moral ideal dictated that a succession of obscure acts were all the more valuable because they were modest, humble, and unnoticed. Where could they be recorded without public space and collective time for Salazar’s Catholic vision?

Where else but in the mute eternity of souls, according to Salazar’s Catholic vision?

As in many other respects, today’s Portugal prolongs the old regime. Non-inscription doesn’t date back to the present; it’s an old habit that comes above all from the refusal imposed on the individual to register. Registering implies action, affirmation, and decisions with which the individual achieves autonomy and meaning for their existence. It was Salazarism that taught us irresponsibility, reducing us to children, big children, and infantilized adults.
April 25th opened up a complex process of intense struggle against non-inscription, at least on a restricted level, with provisional governments taking “definitive” measures, creating “irreversible facts (laws, institutions)” before they fell, in the desperate desire to leave a work done, indestructible, with which they would contribute to the construction of the new society. Simply put, the substrate of non-inscription was still alive, and all this frantic and delirious activity to inscribe the Revolution- through writing history- did nothing more than feed the impossibility of inscribing, which was indeed inscribed in the depths (or on the entire surface) of the Portuguese unconscious.

This is how political discourse became dominant in Portuguese life. At a certain point, it spilled over into civil society, identifying all power with political power. The only opportunities to inscribe anything in individual or collective existence had to pass through political power.

This is also how Portuguese Social Life, now pacified and normalized, saw non-inscription regain its privileges in all its splendor. A minister who illegally takes advantage of the law to evade the tax authorities resigns, only to resurface unscathed months or years later; a scandal that tarnishes the actions of a government official, far from removing him from politics for good, can even be an opportunity to start a career with an even brighter future (a better-paid post or one with international prestige, etc.). Nothing really matters; nothing is irremediable; nothing is inscribed.”

[Josè Gil, author]

Great blog👏 I agree with everything except one thing! You describe the following:”… This article is not about the (genuinely) decent and upstanding Portuguese, albeit not more than 5%, as I perceive it and according to my anecdotal experience, but about the remaining 95% made up of crooks, idiots as as well as the conniving/passive/simpletons who constantly look the other way (which makes them equally guilty/responsible for the perpetual tragic situation) who, for a variety of reasons, turn life in Portugal a hell and a very dangerous and unhappy place to live in, with the real potential to destroy your life… ” I DON’T AGREE with the 95%, from what I know about Portugal and the Portuguese I say it’s 99% 😀😀😀😀😀

Portugal is the country of death and your happiness is the first to die! 💯💯 The worst country in the world to invest your money, the Portuguese are the worst consumers in the world. Fake and pathetic country, 99% of the population has no opinion about anything, the Portuguese are cowards and live happily side by side with the rampant corruption that happens in Portugal.

Good job. A year ago I sold my house in Cascais and moved my company to Germany, and it was the best decision of my life. A very similar situation to yours happened to me in the Portuguese “courts”, and I decided to turn my back on the corrupt justice system that I was subjected to. My family and our mental health are all I have, and I will never let Portugal take that away from me. Portugal is toxic, and the Portuguese are toxic!!

There’s a lot of exploitation and abuse going on at Portuguese companies. Do you think you could post about Lisbon’s mafia-like call centers? I can provide links and information. Tel*performance, Maj*rel, Rand*tad, Webh*lp… They’re the worst. Especially Tel*performance (check link).

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I was forced to live in Portugal for 3 years by the company I work for. I am no longer in Portugal, but I can say that just trying to live day to day was painful! I worked in the Netherlands and Germany and in those countries I never experienced the situations I experienced in Portugal. In Portugal I met racist, envious and scheming coworkers. Pathetic country with caveman mentality. Great blog!!!! 👏👏

Why are a lot of Portuguese workers damaging owner’s property during work? Are they retarded?

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My life in Portugal

I’m Portuguese, I’ve been living in Barcelona for 20 years, I’m 48 today. This blog is everything I’ve ever thought about Portugal and the Portuguese. I left Portugal after 8 years of working hard at So*ae for a miserable salary. I realised that my colleagues were complacent people with no ambitions, they never had money to travel, but they thought and created stories in their heads that everything that wasn’t Portuguese or Portugal was bad. So ignorant! I think they’re happy like that, they’d rather not know, because deep down they know they’re very mediocre. I’ve achieved economic stability in Spain and I already have a company, I won’t say more because the envy of the Portuguese is radioactive :). I only go to Portugal once a year for a week to see my parents, but every time I go I see a country that is stuck in time, outdated at every level. Yes, it’s true, the Portuguese love corrupt people. Yes, it’s true, if the Portuguese have the opportunity and the position to steal, they do, and they don’t see it as a problem for Portuguese society. The Portuguese love to live in shit all their lives!!!! Portugal is not Europe! Keep up the good work. PS: You can write this testimony of mine in English, because I don’t speak English.

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Minha vida em Portugal

Sou português, vivo em Barcelona há 20 anos, hoje tenho 48 anos. Este blogue é tudo o que sempre pensei de Portugal e dos Portugueses. Saí de Portugal depois de trabalhar arduamente na So*ae durante 8 anos, com um salário miserável. Percebi que os meus colegas de trabalho eram pessoas acomodadas e sem ambições, nunca tiveram dinheiro para viajar mas achavam e criavam histórias na cabeça deles que tudo que não fosse português ou Portugal era mau. Tão ignorantes! Acho que são felizes assim, preferem não saber, porque no fundo sabem que são muito medíocres. Consegui em Espanha estabilidade económica e tenho já uma empresa, não descrevo mais, porque a inveja dos portugueses é radioativa :). Apenas vou à Portugal uma vez por ano durante uma semana para ver meus pais, mas vejo cada vez que vou, um País estagnado no tempo, ultrapassado a todos os níveis. Sim é verdade, os portugueses adoram corruptos. Sim é verdade, se os portugueses tiverem oportunidade e num cargo que possam roubar eles roubam, e não vêem isso como um problema da sociedade portuguesa. Os portugueses adoram viver toda a vida na merda!!!! Portugal não é Europa! Continua o teu bom trabalho. PS: pode colocar este meu testemunho mas em Inglês, pois não sei inglês

So, Portugal is corrupt? Definitely. How about the UK? Don’t even get me started on the mighty US of A.

I understand you’re hurt and now hide behind a laptop, playing the keyboard hero. Guess what? Your mental health is deteriorating, and you’re achieving nothing. Not to mention, you’re highly xenophobic and close-minded. Do yourself a favor: see a therapist and address all that hatred. Look at what happened to Germany.

Take your brilliant business plans and strive to be the successful person you want to be. But beware: if you’re this naive, you’ll face difficulties not just in Portugal, but everywhere. Capitalism is ruthless, and if you want to profit from it, I wish you the best of luck. Unfortunately, you lack the intelligence to succeed, and you risk getting dumber (and poorer) while wasting time on a blog like this, spreading hatred, xenophobia, and racism.

You might hate me for this comment, but deep down, you know I’m right. If you don’t, you’re blind. But I’m sure you’ll remember these words in your later years (assuming you live that long), poor and near the end of your life. Good luck.

Portuguese people. A mix of inbreed for centuries. With the most horrible history, slavery ( for 400 years and over 6 million slaves traded ) The inquisition, kicked out all the jews the ones who stayed were forced to convert( they were forced to leave their childeren in PT ). See what is left : a pity, corrupted poor country with vicious, primitive evil people. Any comment on that Joao ??

Hopefully you left so the rest of us can enjoy it.

Im portuguese and all I can say is thank u for this blog. I’ve never realised how bad Portugal really is. To be honest I couldn’t even finish this whole article because I’ve always seen my country as a normal actually nice place to live in. I wonder if I’ve just been lucky this whole time to never have to face any of these awful events or really just ignorant. Truth is stuff like being stubborn and the shit talking was very normal to me. I really see how ignorant I was so thank u for opening my eyes. I truly am sorry to all the people that put their trust in Portugal and in the end just suffered in the hands of the portuguese. I hope happiness and peace finds you. All the portuguese hating on the author and this blog should be ashamed of themselves. We see real people and real events that happened how can people be so ignorant. This blog is nothing but helpful not only to foreigners but to the portuguese too instead of getting defensive maybe think about how much damage the portuguese have caused to people how we’re the problem. You’re all just proving the authors point of being close minded ignorant people. Thank you for this blog and for bringing awareness it’s extremely necessary

Could you make an article about the threat to women who move to Portugal?

I had no idea how evil Portuguese are to women; even Portuguese, or other European women living in Portugal, help harm expats and immigrants.
None of the “pros and cons” articles online talk about the abuses women will experience in Portugal: legitimate businesses disrespecting and defrauding women: lying during sales, fraudulent billing, denying help. Also, the entitlement of targeting women who reside alone or are unmarried. How women here help harassers and gypsies target other women who are not European (in my case, an American). Also, while not my personal experience, the judicial system neglects domestic abuse cases.

No one warn women to not move to Portugal. Someone should. Could you please post an article about this? I will gladly share my specific experiences, in less than a year, I have suffered. But I am not a rare case; on tiktok, facebook, etc there are many women who have suffered in Portugal and no one warned us before facing the disgusting behavior we have to endure.

Thanks.

I found this blog when I did a Google search for “why Portuguese lawyers are crooks”. I was happy because I was able to understand what was happening to me. A Portuguese lawyer and a real estate agent were trying to scam me when buying a house. After reading this blog I gave up on buying the house and I am going to Spain. What a crazy country!!

Indeed it is. As a foreigner you are totally outlawed. I speak from experience. A horrible culture!

I’m Portuguese and I’m happy to have found this blog, which talks about what the real Portugal is and what the Portuguese are. I’m planning and preparing my exit from this shitty “country” before this year ends. I’m a doctor and Portugal is in serious trouble and all governments are trying to hide the true reality of this place. Trying to live in this society is totally impossible, Portugal has a rotten and toxic society, without opinion, racists, jealous of everything and everyone including Europeans🤮 I’m going to leave as soon as possible… Portugal has the power to end your life and your happiness. Don’t stop reporting the real Portugal.

I am Portuguese and I agree with a lot here about how horrible my family is because of years of poverty, pedophiles in the Catholic church, and living under a dictator that protected them from Nazi’s in the 1940, yet kept them broke, religous and fucking stupid. I cannot disagree with you there.

However, I can agree with you all day, but like a man who drives miles to murder someone. What does it take for a man to create a website, use such wonderful use of the English language to point out the flaws of another culture, literally create a website, learn html, and have page after page of grievance’s? Seriously what kind of man does something like that?

Well I know a lot of vindictive Portuguese men who do. I can shit on my people and other people because seriously I hate all cultures, but writing a blog and answering to other peoples hate and their inner demons? That takes a lot of being stuck in your own narcissism. Thank you for the learning lesson today. Forgiveness!

Sometimes when we think other people are being shitty and justified, watch out for our own actions.

And yes, the Portuguese culture has been awful for a long time, even the Japanese word for fish Sakana, means bastard in Portuguese, well they were calling them bastards. Most Portuguese people should be ashamed of themselves, but they should not waste their time reading anyone elses disgust, especially no one from any other culture who is just as stupid.

I am in agreement, I am just as stupid, and blinded by my own Portuguese narcissism. You don’t have to be Portuguese to have this human trait.

Also, when you think you have out shittied someone else, always remember there is always someone who will out shitty you!

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Thank you for writing all this on your blog. I discovered it by accident yesterday typing “why are portuguese people so stupid” and you made my day. I am Polish and I lived in Porto for 8 years with portuguese husband and a daughter. I was suffering every day: loneliness, being stuck at home (he never wanted to go anywhere with us and I had no driving licence), xenophobia (his mother forbade me to speak Polish to the child, but I insisted), rejection, mismatch… you name it. He and his fmaily had literally no horizons, they didn’t want to know anything, they didn’t want to talk about anything important, they were boring and stagnant. And fake. Which I discovered when from day one to another he asked for divorce. He changed 180%, showing his coldblooded cruelty, his real primitive face and no morals or empathy to us. I managed to run from there to my home counrty with my daughter and now, after psychological recovery, I am standing back on my feet. Till now I fought I was crazy and paranoid thinking everything that is written here was only my imagination. But I trully suffered. Thank you. And sorry for my English 🙂 All the best and keep posting. Everyone has to be warned about Portugal, especially women who come there from abroad.

I’m 42 years old, I’m Portuguese, and I hate everything about Poortugal. I left this shitty country when I didn’t get justice in a case involving the purchase of a house. The “company” that sold the houses with owners who were professional swindlers already had dozens of legal proceedings, but the Portuguese courts did nothing to remove the swindler from circulation. He opened and closed companies one after another, always with the same scheme… Portugal is a facade country full of incompetent scum, who love to see you in disgrace. After 4 years of suffering and without most of my savings, I went to Germany and opened my company. It was one of the best decisions I made in my life, you pay your taxes and Germany protects you and even insists on helping you. I feel like a true CITIZEN in Germany. Never risk your money in any business in Portugal, you will lose everything. F*ck you Poortugal!!!

I have had a false claim, an unfair trial with false witnesses in a little village in PT. Was totally outlawed. I wrote a dozen and more emails to get help from Brussels. They know how corrupted PT is but cant do anything. The worst things happened to me in PT in less then 6 months. Then I fled out of the country. What a horror. Still have a little boy there living but do not dare to go back. Afraid of my ex family in law who have some influence and love to hate and hate to love and love to make my life miserable and that of my son. I am back in Scandinavia. Back to civilized world. I can understand your frustration. I have lived in different countries and have travelled the world but this goes far beyond every nightmare. We should spread it out and cancel that country. Viel Erfolg in Deutschland.

I’m Portuguese, I’ve been living here in Germany for 4 years and when I decided to move to Germany and build my company, I was mistreated by my family and they despised my dream. They are truly people without horizons, passive-aggressive, devoid of any feelings for anyone, they hate knowing what good is being done in other countries and they don’t want to know anything, they are racist and envious. I speak from experience because unfortunately I have had to listen to a lot of stupidity at family gatherings! Now I will never have to go through this torture again. I’ve already told my story on this blog. The Portuguese will forever be trapped in their unbridled stupidity and increasingly isolated. POORTUGAL is definitely the slum of Europe. In Portugal every day there is news and scandals (not for the Portuguese who don’t see this as a problem, of course) related to theft and embezzlement of millions of European funds. The most recent scandal is that of a “businessman” who allegedly embezzled more than 40 million euros of European funds over 10 years!!! For those 10 years he lived in a luxury hotel with money from European funds (yes, he lived in a luxury hotel in Portugal). In Poortugal, thieves are always addressed and called “Mr. Businessman”. I wish you all the best away from Portugal and especially from the Portuguese. Leaving Poortugal was the best decision of my life, I have a very healthy economic life due to the fact that I came to Germany. I always advise everyone not to bury money in Poortugal, you will lose. It happened to me… I wish you all the best!!

Two-faced cowards with broken families. They are united in only one situation, that is when they want to ax another root. Do not trust the Portuguese at all because you will pay a heavy price in the near future.

Hello, as a portuguese I agree 100% with you.

And I cringe and feel second hand embarrassment for everything obvious and that 99% of the population chooses to willfully ignore.

Even the portuguese between themselves, hate each other, there’s really no sense of union and people will scam and steal each other whenever someone gets the chance. This is my experience.

It isn’t like this everywhere – I was born in a small city in the north of the country, I lived my best years until I was 15 years old. Then, I had to move with my mother to Lisbon. I ended up building my life here through some difficulty and challenge, and I’m 40, now. I hate it here. Everyday I feel the need of getting away from this hell and to go live up on the mountain or in the middle of the forest with nobody around for miles on end. This is the trauma left for being forced to interact daily with scammers and people that just want to see you fail and suffer. Portugal’s like a no-man’s land.

I’m having a blast reading through your articles and I can confirm in each and every one, YES, YOU’RE RIGHT. AND I’M SORRY, I’M ONE OF THEM.

As a result of being aware of this, I have no friends, nobody who to really trust other than a very few elements of my close family.

We needed more testimonies like yours. Cheers.

I emphasize with you. Good luck. Try to get out one day and built your life somewere else. Not easy but not impossible either.

I am a British/US citizen and have visited Portugal 3 times-all locations, with my Brazilian wife and we have always been met with politeness and friendly faces, perhaps because we approach locals with polite friendly faces! I try to speak Portuguese and am always offered help and appreciation for my efforts , with more smiling faces. Go figure!!!

Crooks do know how to carefully and politely address their potential victims!

You hust have been lucky. Read the articles and the figures. What is the purpose of your post? That one should do more efforts ?

The British is the VIP client there’s no question about.

Portugal is a country of whores and green wine.

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Never trust Portuguese under any circumstances. For a Portuguese, it doesn’t matter how good you are, they will hit you in any situation. This is a principle in Portugal. Portugal is cursed

at the doctor ( in cold blood )
I had been waiting for many months to see a doctor because I use insulin. In the absence of doctor’s appointments, I have had to decide myself how to medicate myself. I have had to buy expensive blood glucose meters myself: most recently one that also measures ketones. The risk of death has increased. I have never been to an endocrinologist. For a diabetes nurse once (and also the last time) in three years. I have not received a referral to the diabetes association. All blocked without any explanation. Now I waited 1.5 hours for my turn and then it happened: I was skipped. First was skipped a woman number 142.
My shift number was 138 and after 137 came 155…I went to ask the guard for help, who fixed it ! He went and waited outside the door and arranged meeting to me. When I entered the room, GP immediately started complaining in Portuguese that she doesn’t speak English. I apologized for not knowing enough Portuguese. Then he picked up the phone and called his superior in my presence like a defiant, why is he being given such a patient (who doesn’t speak Portuguese). The supervisor came. He complained again with the same words and not once watched at me: I was not a person anymore! I watched all this like a movie. I was calm because this was it : my only chance.
So this doctor wanted to choose who to treat and jumped over those he didn’t want to treat: cold bloodedly.
Now he wanted the manager to throw me out! However, I was prepared. I had everything in Portuguese: current medication, why I was there, another Portuguese doctor’s statement, etc. He got it all right in front of his nose, but he wasn’t interested in that. He read them all. He wasn’t interested in anything about me because I was a foreigner(?).
I had already put everything in advance by email when I was looking for an appointment. The Portuguese doctor had written two pages comprehensively that was now on the table in front of him. Nothing was enough! I had done 80% of his work so that I would get that precious referral to a specialist.
His chief asked me twice why I am there.
I just said that I cannot medicate myself and my insulin dose has risen very much etc. I tried to say as I could that I need somebody to look after my diabetes medication because I am not a doctor. So simple.
It came at last. He said: He needs to meet an endocrinologist.
Now I’m waiting to see if the specialist cancels me: in cold blood!

As a Portuguese son of Portugueses it is my sole purpouse in life to make foreigners stay in my country as miserable as possible. We are SICK AND TIRED of foreigners! GO HOME!
Go to your country! Dont come here inflating our prices and competing with us for houses and services!
And you can take our traitor president with you

Take your relatives back from Cambridge, Ontario. You’re all filth.

Yep… typical Portuguese victim mentality.
It’s not the foreigners who are raising the prices of the rent and services, it’s the greedy Portuguese owners jacking them up to take advantage and by proxy, causing misery for the Portuguese who are now forced to move to lower rent areas.

You may be sick and tired of tourists but if you had no tourists your country would take a large financial hit effecting many peoples jobs and income. You can’t have it both ways.

Exactly!

I do not know what you’re talking about. Who wants to live in your miserable country ? We all know that Portugal is a very xenofobic country. Blame the foreigners or your misery. But you will notice that once the foreigners left, your life will become even more miserable.

You don’t have to tell this to the foreigners. They all find out what a miserable country full of toxic, vicious and primitive people you are. You will stay poor for ever and this is what you deserve. There is nothing nice about your complaining, passive , fatalistic envyies corrupted society.

Good, now tell other foreigners to go home

Didn’t read the entire article but I can tell you one thing… the Portuguese pride on being incompetent and if you dare to say something about it, you’ll be treated worse than the devil. They’re also lazy and avoid work like the plague. Common sense and thinking for their own hasn’t reached the country yet either and that’s why it’s in the state that it’s in. If only they’d be kicked out of the European Union, they the rest of Europe wouldn’t have to pay for their sorry asses anymore.

I myself have lived 8 years in total in Portugal, divided over 2 periods. From 2002 till 2006 and the past 4 years.

Although I had some experiences with bad people here and sure some racism as well, I never had the feeling it was that bad. Overall, the people seem very open and friendly to me.
I figured the racism and criminal minded were more in the backward parts, the little towns and sleepy villages.

The corruption of course being all over the country, on all levels of government and institutions, but this is no different in most other countries. It is just more clear in countries like Portugal & Spain than it is in some northern European countries.

But after reading your article and the comments beneath, especially, it has really opened my eyes to this. The hateful comments in particular, by some angry, offended Portuguese, strengthens the accuracy of your article only more. But I guess they are too unaware of a people to even realize that their hateful comment achieved only that …

We ourselves have been thinking a lot about our place here, and it isn’t even just about the high taxes and bad people. I almost can’t see the beauty of the country any longer, when all I see is Eucalyptus trees, another result of mafia practices …

I am convinced there isn’t a place on earth that is perfect to live the way we want. I lived in 5 different countries, so I got some experience. But surely there has to be a place where people can live in peace, where they are left alone, as long as they do not hurt others, damage their surroundings and mind their own business?
Without being extorted by government for half your income? Treated fair and not being scammed all the time by people who deliver bad services?

If anyone knows of a place that maybe doesn’t tick all boxes, but comes close to it, please let me know.

Good luck to all who have expressed their misfortunes in this country here, I hope things will get better for all of you!

I have been living in Lisbon for than a year and doing business with both the foreigners and Portuguese. It’s not fair to say that all the people are awful, I have met very nice welcoming individuals as well. But I can’t argue the following attributes about the Portuguese people:
They might be the cheapest people in the whole world. They can argue for 20 cents for half an hour without even considering value of his and other people’s time. Sometimes I feel like I am living in an episode of “Extreme Cheapskates” TV series..
Unfortunately there are many frauds, more than usual than other European countries. But usually the scammers are very stupid too, sometimes that leads too very funny events. My friend has been robbed by a Portuguese who entered her house in Luxembourg. The burglar stole some tech equipments etc, but left his purse in the house he was robbing!!! :))
Portuguese usually don’t take any responsibility, extremely lazy, don’t respect timings, usually they don’t respond even if you’re a customer. No wonder this country is in poor shape, they’re too lazy to respond their clients to make money. One recent example is that We wanted to purchase a coffee machine, called a distributer, and the salesman told me he will go on a vacation and will call me back in 15 days?!! Then I sent a message to him that I will have to buy from a competitor if he won’t direct me to someone available, but he didn’t respond back.. You can experience lack of professionalism and work ethic in every aspect of your daily life in Portugal.
They are very close-minded people, they never experience new things, only consume cheap coffee, cheap beer, cheap lame Portuguese food. Btw, food and the local restaurants are terrible here, whoever says it’s good doesn’t have a clue what a good cousine is.

I can go on, but the long story short, Portugal is an overhyped country with low quality of life for high costs. It’s not cheap anymore, especially in Lisbon. If you have high amount of foreign income and want to retire in Algarve or Cascais, yes it’s nice. But it’s not real Portugal, you are living in a bobble with other rich foreigners.

Yes! Not sure where the hype is coming from that Portugal is a food destination. It truly has some of the worst food we have ever experienced and terrible service.

A peasant primitive kitchen, without any fantasy or spice. It reflects the Portuguese population. The only difference is that food cannot lie, cheat, scam, being evil, vicious and toxic. I am sure I ve forgotten something! 😉

As a Portuguese person whose family is British, I can see both sides of the argument. If you Brits learned the language, integrated, respected us, stop acting like you were somewhat superior and more civilised, maybe, just maybe, your life here would be different. It’s really your fault, basically. My own British husband doesn’t want to be identified as British because he’s so ashamed of you lot. You live in your pathetic enclaves, drinking like fish, bloated and sunburnt, a bunch of ridiculous losers who still think they have an empire! And how thick and lazy are you that you are the only people in the world who cannot learn a foreign language to fluency and cannot even spell properly? Go home and stay there. It’s true, we never liked you and want rid of you because of your attitude and inability to integrate and respect our country. People like you are definitely not welcome here. Good riddance!

I’m a UK national, I’ve been living in Portugal for almost 30 years now, most of this time running my own business. I agree with the overall sentiment of the blog author and I feel everything they’ve been through. It must have been a total nightmare.
I believe there is so much nepotism at the top with high level positions held in politics, government, justice system, civil service, banking etc. being held by incompetent/below par individuals appointed by virtue of their family name, contacts, personal favours and so on. Which in turn leads to malfeasance, corruption and cover-ups and the only way to not get found it is to keep the cycle going. This is the example set from the top and trickles down through all institutions and society. Meanwhile, the real talented and competent people who have the will and ability to effect change are demoted, ridiculed, and forced out!
I don’t believe that 95% of Portuguese people are bad or horrible! But, there does seem to be a very high percentage of nasty, selfish, snide, petty, entitled individuals that we have to encounter on a daily basis – whether going about daily life in a café or seeking service in a bank or utility company etc. there is always someone to make simple tasks unnecessarily difficult.
Then who cannot but notice the following on a daily basis: aggressive and inconsiderate driving, parking all over the pavements, blocking in cars, beeping horns, opening car doors and bashing other cars, keying cars, animal neglect, dogs left to bark endlessly on verandas, leaving their dogs muck on the pavement, pushing in queues, turning up late to meetings, lunches, dinners in fact any event, dropping litter and all other anti-social behaviours….
If people can casually get away with the above-mentioned behaviours in society, many will go on to scam, defraud and rob any vulnerable unsuspecting victims, often foreigners, and the perpetrators consider themselves successful, well to do middle class businesspeople, lawyers etc. Lauded and admired. This is the example set from the very top and works its way down.
Even if it’s just 10% of the population – once you start to notice these things you see it everywhere! And it seems its everyone.
I believe most Portuguese people are equally appalled and frustrated by all this, some leave the country the rest battle on. The real problem in Portugal is the malaise apathy and indifference to it all.

Very well said. There’s a lot of hyperbole on this blog and its comments. I’ve seen some comments which are pure vitriol and betray the commenter’s ignorance about Portuguese society and culture (that any Portuguese can create something interesting and of worth in this environment is nothing short of a miracle, but it does happen).

But on the other hand, like you say, if you live in Portugal, it’s impossible not to notice these things. Every country has its issues, but in Portugal, the basics of human decency are so lacking, you can’t avoid it. There’s an excess of antisocial people and no law enforcement to set them straight (Portuguese people still live in a fascist mindset, they don’t understand respect, only fear, and in this sense are basically like infants, throwing tantrums, skirting responsibility and always expecting someone to bail them out; that, plus the sheer audacity of undeserved entitlement that carries them through life, from cradle to grave).

You’re entirely correct saying the example starts at the top. Just the other day, I was walking on the sidewalk and was forced to walk on the road because a police vehicle was parked on the curb.

I’m Portuguese, I left Poortugal 4 years ago, literally for these reasons that the Blog author describes. Living in Poortugal is dangerous. Portugal is a disgrace, the Portuguese are false, envious and professional swindlers. We moved our company to Germany, in Portugal everything works solely based on schemes and corruption (lawyers, justice). If you need to turn to a lawyer or institution in Portugal, you’re screwed!! If you want to have a happy life, your best life plan is to leave that hole, which is sinking in front of the stupid Portuguese. Good luck little Poortugal😁😁😁
Just to finish, if you want to get to know Portugal and the Portuguese mentality better, read the Portuguese comments very carefully. It’s really scary how they deny and exude evil. It is from this country and these creatures that I escaped. 😅😅😅

I am a crook, I must admit, a thief and a scammer, and I don’t like to pay taxes to foreign governments, or keep promises, and I am lazy as hell. I love to live la vida loca at someone else’s expense. I have a strict dress code, unlike most foreigners that come here or live here bitchin’. I am a swindler, and a cheat, yet I don’t hurt my own kind, the Portuguese, even that I am not of a Portuguese descent, I am naturalized in Portugal. Portugal to me is heaven, which shelters me from “honest” people and demanding Germans living by their strict rules. I love this country. Courts take forever in Portugal and the government is forgiving, and that is all I need to live a life without worry. If you don’t like it, get out!

I’m also a Portuguese that lived abroad for a considerable amount of time. I work for an multinational company, and I have to agree with what you wrote above.
For a short period I felt good being back on my own country, established on a nearby city to the main offices, and bought a house. Then my parking space was invaded by someone that decided that it was theirs to use for. Then I started to hear extreme noise on Saturdays and Sundays, because someone got a license from the municipality to throw birthday parties. Then came the time to pay taxes.
It’s only been 3 years and I am selling it all to search for a better place to live, and I identify myself with the author on this important bit: No one cares! It’s wrong, it’s plain corruption in broad daylight, and everyone srugs and moves on as if it’s the most natural thing in the world.

Everyone on this website is just a racist loser, you all just sad your country is not as beautiful neither are your people. Womp womp kys

Beautiful people yes, beautiful from afar, far from beautiful.

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How can you be a racist when you do not like the Portuguese? This shows that you are not only evil but dumb as well. Btw, talking about racism. Your country has a long history about that until the day of today.

Undoubtedly, the nature of Portugal is beautiful. But the subject of the comments is related to the Portuguese bipeds

There is no beauty in Poortugal. None.
Just hate, infestation, dilapidation and envy. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Pigs like pig-sties.

The only advice I can give to non-Portuguese is to never go to this swamp. The moral and social situation and consciousness of the Portuguese is much worse than you think. **Please take it seriously**

I agree!
Imagine the worst hell you could ever imagine… x 100.
**WARNING! NEVER MOVE TO PORTUGAL**

Franco-lebanese here. I agree, this is the worst country I have ever been in Europe, and I have never seen as many retards as in this country. I left to Vigo in Spain and I am faaaar happier.
To the Brasilians living in this shithole: you don’t owe them NOTHING, you are in YOUR country, never give up.

Look, I am a portuguese citizen and I have to agree with everything of what you say. Maybe it is a bit based, but whatever. Now, hear this, I am a crook and I admit it, but it’s not because I want to be or because I think it’s the correct way to be, it’s because if I if I weren’t like this the others would take advantage of me! We are constantly attacking each other and thats the truth! For example, here in a small dispute it’s not about who are right and who are wrong, if one person is from an older generation he will automatically assume that he’s right and the other is retarded! Here there is neither right or wrong, lots of disputes are solved by fighting, punching and wathever. In an argument we’ll also argue till the end, and if one assumes guilt he is considered weak. Here we use to say that “guilt dies single”, so there it is. And I’m also very corrupt, because if I were not, I could not make anything in this country. I don’t mind pay bribes, it is just the rules of the game and if I want to play I have to follow the rules. We have an awfull unjust system and if we could solve things with cash, then go for it! I garantee you, if we change our way of thinking and being I would became a model citizen, like we see on developed societies! I think it’s every Portuguese’s dream! But I, like many others had our fair share of bad done to us and I don’t mind admiting that I also take some joy seeing my enemies suffer. I just have to controll myself to not let my own humanity and racionality die totally, but as we say here “when in Rome, do as the romans do”. I had a lot of foreign influences so this also seems a little surreal to me. Government spends billions making propaganda of something we have good, ok it’s their job, but because of that the real problems are disguised and taboo to talk about, so there it is. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen anytime soon. We’ll need a total cultural revolution to make that happen. I sometimes compare some of my foreign friends and we say, it’s like if you are italian and a businessman you will have to deal with the mafia sooner or later. Besides, we the latin countries (except maybe France) in this kind of culture are very similar but also looks like this is a specific thing of portuguese ethnicity and culture, because if you look at Brazil and talk with brazilians they will tell that in their homeland it is exactly the same thing or even worse. Cheers mate.

Thank you for your honesty. I’ve seen this happen to people who used to have good morals…and lost them in Poortugal.
I think it’s extremely sad that one has to become a corrupt barbarian in order to survive and not lose one’s sanity. I also struggled to see how perpetual corrupt barbarianism allows one to maintain their humanity.

It’s hard to explain just how dehumanising and toxic this country is…

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Hi every one,
Are there any people who have been falsely accused in Portugal, false witnesses testifying against you and being convicted by a biased court/judge after an ufair trial where all your rights have been violated? In other words : total horror! I would like to get in touch with those people .

I believe there are many. Total horror is correct. I’m sorry to hear that 😢 Go to Portugal Propaganda on FB. You will find support groups for Portuguese crimes and corruption.

“It is impossible to be happy in Portugal, because nobody is and nobody wants to see you happy. The Portuguese are much more concerned with making the lives of others miserable than focusing on the happiness and success of their own lives. (sickening!)”
My experience in Portugal and living with a Portuguese man (ex-husband) and his family was exactly like this.

I completely agree. If you’re smiling they will descend on you like vultures, break you down, humiliated you, degrade you and insult you so badly that the sea couldn’t wash you clean. All just so they feel better about themselves. Sickening is correct.

Adult barbarians raising their children the same. The kids will probably get a pat on the back, being “patriotic” for lynching a “foreign savages”. Very EU, very democratic.

Neighbour tried to burn my house down after I did not allow him to steal from my house. This is so called passive aggression of some of the Portuguese.

Portugal established the transatlantic slave trade and was one of the last to continue reaping its profits – it was still using de-facto slave labour in its colonies in the 1960s. Portugal also traded in enslaved people. Often by force, and under the banner of Christian crusading missions.

Museums and tourism infrastructure all amount to a grandiose rendering of the country’s 15-17th century “discoveries” in Africa, Asia and the Americas, and a selective recollection of its 20th century colonial exploits.

Angola, amongst others, has suffered the most catastrophic loss of lives during the trade in enslaved people at the hands of the Portuguese. A mass grave was uncovered containing the remains of children and adults, some with their hands bound. Forensic archaeologists dated the deceased back to the 15th century, finding them to be of African descent. The remains have been kept in storage and barely mentioned since.

Portuguese Explorers have been noted to boast of their conquests. How they triumphantly slaughtered villages and as an act of dominance had shit in the mouths of the slain victims.

I agree with the author. They might have a genetic defect that lacks humanity and empathy.

A lot of countries colonised, but only the Portuguese took immense pleasure and pride in their inhumane degradation after death. A trait that is still prevalent today.

They actually enjoy hurting others. They enjoy destroying other people’s lives. They pride themselves in the misery of others. They laugh in the face of the suffering of others.

The Author has an article on this…
“Shit in the mouth”

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Author, I think it would be worth uploading the story in the Guardian newspaper about Hazel Behan. Her rape trial – the rape occured in the Algarve – is now being held in Germany. She describes how, after the rape, the GNR followed her. She stopped them and asked what they were doing. They said they had to follow her to prove she was a slut. The police also told her to go home as she would damage local tourism.

I think it’s a disgrace on the part of Portugal that the German and British Authorities have to pursue a case, that the Portuguese were to lackadaisy to even attempt. Not to mention victim blaming.

You cannot carry adult conversations with adults in Portugal, because in general, the Portuguese are extremely difficult people to engage in an intelligent and meaningful conversation with, since we hear so much drivel and stupidity that our brains just want to shut down to end the agony, or else we just have to resort to talking about silly things with them, which they seem to love. Portugal is also a very infantilized society. – THIS EXACTLY. Very well written articule. Being born and raised here i should know.

I just wonder if the country has always been like that along history or if something has interfered with its development.

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Portugal has always had its dark times in history. What do you think about the time of the inquisition when they killed many jews, kicked them out and took their childeren and conficated their properties. Nowadays it is one of the poorest countries in the EU. But it wont change quickly if you see their mentality.

Jealousy, wickedness, cowardice, fraud, backstabbing, betrayal, lies and most importantly arrogance are the characteristics of the Portuguese. They hate to hear criticism. I wasted three years of my life in that country, I didn’t even meet a normal person. Avoid Portugal wherever you are in the world

Unfortunately, it’s partly true. Not everyone is the same.

I concur 100%

Ah, you fiend of foul disdain, you’re as misguided as a compass in a whirlwind! Your contempt for Portugal is as shallow as a puddle in a drought, and your ignorance rivals the vastness of the ocean that kisses Portugal’s shores. You’re like a grumbling storm, all thunder and no substance, hurling insults like pebbles against the fortress of Portugal’s rich history and culture.

Your animosity toward Portugal is as laughable as a jester’s antics, for it reveals not the flaws of the land but the poverty of your own understanding. With the grace of a bull in a china shop, you trample upon the elegance of Portugal’s language, the splendor of its architecture, and the richness of its traditions.

Oh, you pitiful wretch! Your disdain for Portugal is but a reflection of your own inadequacies, a feeble attempt to mask your envy of a nation that shines brighter than a diamond in the sun. Your insults are as feeble as a mouse against a lion, for Portugal stands tall and proud, unyielding to the petty grievances of insignificant souls like yours.

vai po caralho ó morcão de merda volta pa puta dos states ou o caralho que é o buraco de onde a puta da tua mãe de pariu caralhos te fodam

The only reason Portugal is not bankrupt is because of foreign investment and EU funding.
You have obviously also received the Portuguese education of “we are great, we are the best”… with the redaction of actual history. Portuguese are the inventors of slavery. Portuguese people committed genocide multiple times, and buried the evidence. War crimes, atrocities, modern-day corruption, fraud and slave-labour, all squashed by the Portuguese media.

It’s narcissism 101, manipulation, brainwashing and a false sense of security.

You say: “a nation that shines brighter than a diamond in the sun”…
Yet you have a higher number of child abuse than America (a country 107 times larger than Portugal). You have the second largest amount of mentally institutionalised people in Europe (2nd only because all cases are not documented). Depression is rife, hatred is a way of life and morals are non-existing.

Your country sucks!…and that’s an understatement.
But more importantly, it destroys the lives of good, hardworking, honest people.

I can fully understand the blog author. The Portuguese are depressing, vicious and toxic people ( beside the good once , which are the minority ). I lived in your evil country. The Portuguese are rough, not friendly, corrupted like hell, the lie are envyies. Their food is primitive and simple. The villages are poor, the roads are bad, the medical care is bad ( public ). Disorganised. You treat your animals bad. What do you think ?? Why should we love your people ??

Another VERY diplomatic way of trying to WARN foreigners NOT to fall for the fake propaganda portraying Portugal as a great place to live.

https://youtu.be/_-i6WIUJKg4?si=9hzYC6kZ0BY8zKpP

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Yes, I couldn’t agree with you more.
I think the reason most people choose to go “the very diplomatic” route, is because of the extremely vicious backlash and violent threats that will be received from PoortugalScum.
PoortugalScum are very very dangerous because of their lack of morals and integrity. They are very very vindictive, and will dedicate their lives to destroy someone else’s life. I think a lot of people are trying to get the message out, but trying to avoid life-threatening repercussions and cyber-abuse by the hands of the PoortugalScum.

Corruption in Portugal

You are right in almost everything you describe. As a Portuguese citizen I was compeled to exit the country when I earned my degree and got the conditions to start life elsewhere.
If you want to know my opinion the worst cancer of what you describe is the municipality of Gondomar and the latest presidents were a real disaster in terms of corruption and personal interests. But its not only the presidents the other “vereadores” and the urban “planning” technicians are all a web of corruption and dark money schemes.
You can check for instance the scandal of the Hotel in Ribeira de Abade in Gondomar near the famous Douro river where there is signs of corruption everywhere you look, and only was stopped because a bunch of local citizens arised and called the press and made formal sustained complaints against the constrution:
https://www.jn.pt/i/13794927.html/ministerio-publico-entra-com-acao-para-impugnar-hotel-em-gondomar-14581325.html/amp/

More recently a Burguer King was built in S. Cosme – Gondomar – on top of an existing street, making necessary a deviation on the trace of the street, but the main infrastructures like energy, telecomunications, rain waters, etc all still pass under the Burguer King building.
They also built a few years ago a McDonalds with part of it on top of the safe zone of the IC29/A43 highway, all with the municipality and the president knowledge.
If you are a private business trying to make simple things in Gondomar like an area correction of a land you wait almost 6 months to a year (Registo Predial in Gondomar is one of the worst in the country). Also if you bring international investment to Gondomar and need a license to build a Supermarket, a restaurant or any kind of private investment you have to give money to the right persons (normally the president or someone related) on the municipality to be able to get the license, or else you will wait eternity or get your ideal blocked by minor reasons that will tire you and make you give up.
Gondomar is a pond that thrives to very few and demolishes all others. But this are only small examples of someone that now lives abroad gets to know, there must be many more and even worst situations that should be known to the world so that Portugal will be a better country for coming generations!

After reading all the comments on this blog, I’ve noticed that a lot of Portuguese people who are offended by this blog responds with “it’s JUST the justice system” that is very bad…. everything else is good.
How can a country be “good” when there is NO law?
How can anybody make an honest living when criminals are in power?
How can there be any form of reconciliation when the primary problem is just being brushed off as “JUST the Judicial system”
Do Portuguese people not understand the vital importance of law and order?
Why are Portuguese people not protesting down the streets on a daily basis, demanding an honest and effective legal system?
All foreigners are getting screwed, but good hardworking Portuguese people are getting screwed too!
Good Portuguese should take advantage of being part of the EU (while it lasts) and scream from the top of their lungs that they are fed up with criminals getting away with “murder”, lives being destroyed, the economy being F’ed…etc. Specifically, because of a failing legal system.
Lawyers should be held at a higher regard. Lawyers who commit crimes should not be allowed to continue practicing law, and should spend time in jail for their criminal acts. Yet…none of this happens, WHY NOT?
It’s only logic.
Judges who are prejudice and crooked, should be held responsible! And the punishment should be more severe, because they have sworn an oath to uphold the law. Disbarred and prison time.
It seems to me like the best place for a criminal, is to become a lawyer or a judge in Portugal.
In other countries, people who are least trustworthy and highly deceptive (even when they are a lawyer or a judge) are called outlaws and criminals. Yet in Portugal they receive honour. Solely focussed on the title in stead of judging them by their actions.
It is beyond me WHY corrupt lawyers and judges are allowed to continue practicing!
How, in God’s name, is the system allowing it?
LAWYERS ARE CORRUPT,
JUDGES ARE CORRUPT,
THEREFORE THE “SYSTEM” IS FAILING!

And the response you get…. “Oh, it’s JUST the Judicial system” 🤯 otherwise Portugal is great! …I mean, are you in denial? Do you think if you just close your eyes and repeat “Portugal is great, Portugal is great” that everything will be okay?

A country without law and order…is a favela! (Slum)
Your country will never improve nor recover, unless the good Portuguese STAND UP FOR JUSTICE!
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, NO EVOLUTION!

Result… everyone (of good intent) will leave the country, if the majority of Portuguese JUST IGNORE the problem of identifying the true problem AND STAY SILENT about eradicating CRIMINALS IN POWER!

YOU NEED MUCH MUCH HARSHER PUNISHMENTS FOR PEOPLE IN POWER WHO ABUSES THEIR POWER!

The system stinks because those who runs it are Portuguese.

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You’re absolutely right, but the Portuguese are passive and fatalistic. It will never change. It is their mentality.

As a native Portuguese I confirm everything I have read in this blog.

I’m 28 yo and I was born in Portugal and I live this hell today, I see me in every word I read in this blog, Portuguese is one of the most broken societies you will ever meet, all of my life I been Suffering as I try to be honest among the “portugueses”.
I was betrayed and played by everyone else incluiding my own family!
There so many problems I would like to tell you about Portugal, very creepy facts about this shit hole country! Even the schools and professors are really envious people it’s just insane!

Me and my wife we are already planing to move to , Switzerland or other country.
It’s really crazy man, as Portuguese I can tell you that even in school the “crookism” is approved, as if you are a student and honest, the teacher will ask you “why u didn’t copy the exam? The student by your side was approved”.
My father try all of his life run a honest construction company, 3 times bankrupt by strange “accidents”.
I work for a fake renewable electric generation company, that say it’s green but it’s not… it generates electricity in fact, by burning “biomass”, runned by a free mason. My salary is an average salary in Portugal as an electromechanic.
Thank you for your commitment to writing the blog, and for your words, may the creator be with you 😁

if Portugal its so bad as you say…
9 years to get back to other country?

Portugal, the second poorest country in the EU. Portugal, highest depression rate. Corrupted, no sense of humor. Food is rough and simple famers kitchen, not refined. Just like the people, not refined. Viscious, toxic, evil, envious people. Very bad organised and unreliable people. Not a nice culture in the far corner of Europe.

Hello! I am a Portuguese and I agree 100% with this article! Finally someone said the truth. After all I am not alone in my opinion. Maybe because my ancestors were from Ireland and Germany, but I always felt that I didn’t fit in this Portuguese mentality.
Thank tou so much!

I am fighting a family, well connected and well off. Every court case I lose. I am a foreigner, not Portuguse. Then you ‘re already 10 points behind. Well connected family another 10 points behind. Corruption in the judicial system another 50 points. They make themself hated by foreigners. Read this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Portugal and you ‘ll undertstand. We should all stand up, be united and tell all our horror stories to the media. This has to stop !

10 REASONS NOT TO MOVE TO PORTUGAL

This video is very diplomatic and factual.

https://youtu.be/eujFUKxzKqg?si=S5XLUk4H4c4XpZE9

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Prepare for the hack of your life!!!!
You’re about to face the consequences of your actions. Your family, your secrets, your entire life is about to be laid bare by a group of hackers you’ve angered. There’ll be no mercy, no hiding. Get ready to be exposed to the world.

I think the EU should start up a Pexit. Kick Portugal out. hey get a lot of money and they are corrupt like no other. Let them be poor and passive. Let them complain. Thats what they like.

I agree…PEXIT (lol)

PORXIT

You’ll regret it, you big coward, get ready, when you’re found out even your whore of a wife eats ants!
YOU BIG SON OF A BITCH, YOU COWARD WHO HIDES LIKE A SCARED CHILD. COME OUT, YOU HERO, COME OUT!

Nickname translation:
Your mother’s c*nt. You son of a bitch

Original Portuguese text:
Vais te arrepender seu grande covarde, prpara-te, quando fores descoberto até a puta da tua mulher come formigas
SEU GRANDE FILHO DA PUTA, COVARDE QUE SE ESCONDE COMO UMA CRIANÇA CHEIA DE MEDO. APARECE SEU HEROI, VEM LÁ APARECER

“Meet an asshole in the morning, you’ve just met an asshole. Meet assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”

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I’m Portuguese and fortunately 7 years ago I left that place and went to Germany. I never identified with the distorted, retarded, primitive mentality of the Portuguese. I agree with everything on this blog, and I love seeing many Portuguese foam at the mouth with anger that this blog exists. BE CAREFUL: don’t trust anyone for anything in Portugal, behind every smile, there is someone who will catch you at the moment you are happiest and will end your life. As the author of the blog said “in Portugal something wrong is never resolved, it will always get worse”. If you are in Poortugal the only plan you should have is an escape plan, before it is too late. I have 2 nephews aged 21 and 23 who also went to work in Amsterdam in 2022, today they have a stable and happy life. They had a miserable life in Poortugal and always lived at their parents’ house.

You’re all a bunch of nutters sucking foreigners’ asses hahaha!

Original Portuguese text:
vocês não batem bem da cabeça a chupar o cu aos estrangeiros hahaha

Narcissism, mediocrity, envy are abundant in Portugal unfortunately. I’m Portuguese btw.

Abandon all hope ye who enters here

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The Lisbon Genocide
It’s a short film
It has been left out of school curriculums, out of history.
Let’s just pretend bad things don’t happen and Portuguese people are so nice, and it’s so safe. If we keep on telling everyone how great we are, they must believe it, right?

It’s a complete mob-mentality. One guy points a finger at “the foreigner” and then all the rest jump on him like a pack of rabies infested wild dogs.
One woman says “it’s a miracle” and they all believe blindly without question. When one guy points out logic, again they attack him like a pack of rabies infested wild dogs.
This mob-mentality is still prevalent today.

And it’s okay, because they’re Catholic, so “In the name of Jesus Christ, you are absolved from all your sins”, right?

https://youtu.be/brfOY4-KQ1k?si=F5Adg3oL3yT4epYE

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You are a big mother fucker! No one invited you. Up yours. Fuck off. You are a piece of shit.

Portugal, the best place to live and one of the oldest countries of Europe. Go black to tour shit hole.

Portugal, the best place to live. The 2nd poorest country in the EU. They get billions from Brussels. Corruption is part of life. No sense of humor. Shall I go on ?

Um… actually YOUR GOVERNMENT is inviting foreigners to come!!! Because the educated Portuguese people are ESCAPING uneducated Portuguese like you!!!

Hum… na verdade o VOSSO GOVERNO está a convidar os estrangeiros a virem!!! Porque os portugueses instruídos estão a FUGIR dos portugueses sem instrução como tu!!!

Yeah!
Look at this link:
https://www.pt2030.org/portugal-2030-who-can-apply

The Government is actively trying to LURE unsuspecting investors into the country.
Not to mention their student packages that they LURE unsuspecting students.

These are all funding received from the EU to improve the economic situation…
Yet it’s just another way the country is scamming the EU. Companies that have no other interest than relieving the investor or their money. Funds that are used to entrap even more investors. Investors that will ultimately face a major loss.

It’s all a scam.

Cry more you nazi fuck lmao

“IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY” – 10 people’s accounts of discrimination in Portugal.

For those of you enticed by the false portrayal of “the friendly Portuguese people and a peaceful life”, BE WARNED.
IT’S A DEHUMANIZING TRAP.

https://youtu.be/JIjIs9sTk_Y?si=O35QPw5mswDYnnrU

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Brazilians decide to return to Brazil after mistreatment, discrimination, violence and abuse of children in Portuguese schools.

* Teachers hittings kids over the head with metal ruler and pulling them by their ears because they speak with an accent.
* Teachers calling children niggers, monkeys and shit. Justifying that it’s not racist because there are white monkeys too.
* Student arrested by police from school for denouncing abuse.

Mother;
“I’m a foreigner, I have a different culture, and I’m very scared here”

Other mother;
“I could see the sparkle in my child disappear over time. We decided to return to Brazil to offer my child a more humane and spiritual education without violence.”

https://youtu.be/gYvbUpVLyC0?si=fjAgTDex1mdIuiSy

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https://youtu.be/T-0jXff3_l8?si=ae7obfEqvxhc4ZnC

Look at this Extreme Xenophobia in Portugal 🤮
People getting brutally attacked, verbally accosted and discriminated against.

Very very barbaric and uncivilised.
A stark contrast to all the propaganda out there portraying Portugal as a wonderful and safe place with friendly people.

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I’m not Brazilian, but I have also been physically attacked, verbally attacked (daily) and denied service and work, because I speak Portuguese with an accent. It is really really horrible to live here as a foreigner 🤢

Fuck you ox, you’re a big son of a bitch and you should be raped by 30 niggers you cunt, go eat shit for your country you dumb, stupid fucking prick!

Original Portuguese text:
Vai te foder oh boi, és um grande filho da puta e devias ser violado por 30 pretos seu cabrao, vai comer merda pro teu país seu burro, otario do caralho

And here we have an example of a Portuguese with no education.

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E aqui temos um exemplo de um português sem instrução, nem educação.

Very educated people as well in Portugal and civilized.

I think you are proving the author right.

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Acho que estás a provar ao autor que ele tem razão …

… just another daily interaction
in Portugal …

We do have issues with justice but the rest of your drivel is so ignorant, insufferable, racist and classicist (not to say outright lies) that I wish you were scammed more, you deserve everything bad coming to you

Portuguese are racists. They are the founders of it. And a lot more bad things, like; ignorant, vicious, toxic, evil, primitive, uneducated and so on and so on….. It is my own experience. And thet treat their pets horrbile.

Expat U mean Immigrant,
Portugal is the country with the highest emigration rate in Europe and one of the highest in the world. The peak of emigration occurred between 2010 and 2019. In total, there are around 2.3 million Portuguese immigrants living abroad (first generation), of which 70% are between 15 and 39 years old.
Jan 12, 2024

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2024-01-12/30-of-young-portuguese-leave-the-country/85048#:~:text=Portugal%20is%20the%20country%20with,15%20and%2039%20years%20old.

BLAMING, DENIAL, SPEWING HATE AT THOSE ADDRESSING THE BLATANT ISSUES,
SIMPLY WON’T HELP YOU.
YOUR OWN PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM YOUR COUNTRY.

Dear author,

Your diatribe against an entire nation reeks of ignorance, arrogance, and cowardice. It takes a special kind of spinelessness to sit behind a keyboard and hurl insults at a people you know nothing about, all while hiding behind a veil of anonymity.

Your contempt for Portugal and its people is matched only by your own lack of integrity and intelligence. You have the audacity to label an entire population as stupid, yet it was your own dim-witted decision to immigrate to a country you clearly despise without bothering to learn anything about it beforehand.

If your homeland is truly the utopia you make it out to be, then why did you bother coming to Portugal in the first place? Your presence here serves as a constant reminder of your own hypocrisy and inadequacy.

It’s time for you to grow a backbone and confront the ugliness that lies within. Your venomous words do nothing but expose your own bitterness and resentment. Until you can muster the courage to engage with the world like a grown adult instead of a petulant child, you will continue to be nothing more than a pathetic and contemptible figure, unworthy of anyone’s attention.

Sincerely,
Salvador.

Hi Salvador,

Do you understand the difference between;
• describing a horrific life changing experience by the hands of your captor
and
• dishing out profanities without walking a mile in their shoes?

Hello, chief! I haven’t read it, but here in the country we tell those who don’t like it here to fuck off!

Original Portuguese text:
Olá chefe! Não li, mas aqui na terrinha dizemos para aqueles que não gostam daqui para irem para o caralho!

Dear PortugueseMasturbator,
I’m Portuguese, and I feel ashamed to read your comment.
It really isn’t acceptable to speak like a pirate anymore.

Caro MasturbadorPortuguês,
Sou português e sinto-me envergonhado por ler o seu comentário.
De facto, já não é aceitável falar como um pirata.

This cunt came here, not knowing the system, things don’t go well… Must be the whole country, right? Sure!

It is the most horrible country where I have been, out of 33. Portuguese are indeed horrible by many aspects. They do not have one nice characteristics
Obrigado !

I agree with the author. He’s right.
95% of Portuguese are tremendously corrupt, arrogant, ignorant and narcissistic.

The more educated young Portuguese are fleeing the country like mice from a burning ship.

Thank you for your insightful response Costa200.

“As armas e os barões assinalados,
Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;

E também as memórias gloriosas
Daqueles Reis, que foram dilatando
A Fé, o Império, e as terras viciosas
De África e de Ásia andaram devastando;
E aqueles, que por obras valerosas
Se vão da lei da morte libertando;
Cantando espalharei por toda parte,
Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.”

Luís Vaz de Camões. “Os Lusíadas” Canto I

How evil do you have to be to create a website that encourages mockery and hatred of a nation and people?

An exercise in slanderous, ignorant and hateful cheap speech that should make the author blush with shame if he had any shred of ethical and moral principles and values.

The noble and secular Portuguese nation, once the world’s largest empire, is far above the braying of ignorant beasts who do not even touch its glory and grandeur.

Like all countries, we are not perfect and we have our problems, mainly thanks to the miserable and corrupt governance of left-wing and far-left parties, but taking a small part of bandits and traitors and making these imbecile generalizations is revealing of embarrassing stupidity.

Learn a little about the History of Portugal before embarassing yourself making pathetic figures worthy of pity.

‘The noble and secular Portuguese nation, once the world’s largest empire, is far above the braying of ignorant beasts who do not even touch its glory and grandeur.’

Hahahahahaha. I am dead from laughter. The 2nd poorest memberstate of the EU. Without their money, you will dissapear into the ocean!

The author is a hero. When the Portuguese would have 1 percent of his courage to speak out, the country would change. But the Portuguese rather stay what they are: passive, fatalistique, complaining, poor, not refined and very rude. Oh, I forgot one: corrupt!

Personally I have gone through really really really horrific years in Portugal, from which I will be scared and damaged for life. It was not only because of the “left wing” parties.
It was because of the Portuguese people; colleagues, bosses, the people working in the bank, the check out staff at the supermarkets, the dentists, the accountants, the doctors, the government employees, waiters, neighbours, lawyers and even strangers.

You write:
“The noble and secular Portuguese nation, once the world’s largest empire, is far above the braying of ignorant beasts who do not even touch its glory and grandeur.”

I mean… delusional? High?

It’s 2024!
Not 1424!

I can understand what you mean. I first thought, I have bad luck with the people in PT, like the bankers, doctors, lawyers, the dentists, the shopkeeper, the waiters etc. Etc. But no, it is a whole nation!

I’ve lived in other 3rd world countries…
Portugal is a 5th world country!!!

Lol, like don’t insult the 3rd world countries out there by comparing them to this shit hole 😅

This is the most outrageously racist and xenophobic blog I’ve read in a while and it says more about yourself than anything else.
Not even the most petty, jealous, small minded portuguese that you so passionately hate would come up with something like this.
Not even the most racist dumbfuck would make the remarks you’ve done here, using African countries as an insult, calling for “defective genetics” (quite primitive and unscholar of you) and that’s quite the achievement.
I hope you don’t have kids, no one should be raised be someone with this kind of hate inside them.
And I’m pretty sure you’ll be scammed again wherever you live, you sound like an ideal target.

Well, half of Poortugal doesn’t know how emails work…so I doubt they will be able to compile a blog. And the educated and civilised Portuguese don’t throw a fit when confronted with the reality.
I see a lot of hate inside of you… do you have kids?

The author of this blog is a hero. Portugal has been the worst nightmere in my entire life. The courts are biased, corrupted, people unreliable, passive, lazy, impolite and no sense of humor. Do I need to say more ?

I have gone through a very similar hell as the author. Every sentence he wrote, rings exceptionally true to me.
It is not xenophobia when you describe how you have been physically, psychologically and financially TORTURED by a particular culture.
All good people will be able to empathise with his story, even if they don’t agree with every point.
After all, he didn’t write this blog to discriminate, he wrote this blog out of the injustices and the incomprehensibly inhumane treatment that they had faced in Portugal, in an attempt to save others from the same torturous hell.

I applaud his courage.

Author’s note: I only allowed this creep’s response below, so readers know what awaits them in Portugal!

No one called you here, no one wants you here.
We have contempt for you rancid foreigners, just because the scum socialists wanted you here does not reflect the vast majority of the population.

It warms my heart to see you get fu**ed and years of your life wasted. Keep sharing your stories i will keep laughing from the sideline.

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I honestly don’t know how could you had such a bad experience. Even worse, you had the patience to create a website around that. I’m Portuguese, I’ve lived here all my life and lived abroad for some time as well. Apart from the Northern Europe where people are usually more correct, focused and with a nice(r?) mentality, all the world has these problems. Brasil? Check. USA? Check. Southern Europe? Check. I mean… It’s a crazy world in 2024 and the problems are, quite honestly, so common everywhere that I can’t understand how could you hate this country that much. I understand where you come from and I acknowledge some of your points, but they are so so so common around the world. Do you feel happier trashing a country like this? I don’t get it.

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Kings (ironic)
Lack of empathy, integrity, basic morals and delusions of grandeur = Severe personality disorder and acute narcissism.

This blog describes exactly creatures like you.

Hi, I hope your blog will grow and grow and grow. I have never seen a more vicious and toxic culture/ behaviour then I saw in Portugal. What a horrible people. I feel sorry for the good ones. But I am sure they are in the minority.

Before leaving Portugal, over a year ago, I was talking to a French man, who was robbed by a Portuguese, and who lost most of his money. He tried going through the courts, but wasn’t able to recover any of his money. He just ended up losing even more money on a crooked lawyer…. A familiar story…

After explaining how it happened, he said this to me at the end of our conversation:

“If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a portuguese, I would let the portuguese have it.”

I was impressed by this, because the way he said it, I knew he was completely serious. And since talking to the French man, I’ve learned that he was paraphrasing a famous quote by a Romanian named Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, which goes like this: “If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.”

So it’s obvious the French man I spoke to was thinking of the Portuguese as traitors, the kind of traitors who smile to your face, while stabbing you in the back

Although he was leaving Portugal, I had a feeling that for him, the story wasn’t over and he would be back one day, and as I told him good-bye I thought to myself, maybe I will read about him one day in the newspapers, although I don’t even know his name

Look at this Portuguese bitch (in the 40 sec video below), insulting and screaming at a Brazilian woman, for the “crime” of speaking Portuguese with a Brazilian accent, even though the Brazilian did not even live in Portugal. She was just passing through (at the airport!) on her way home to Barcelona, where she lives and where she said no one had ever insulted her or spoken to her like this, in all the time she’s lived in Barcelona, but all it took was a few days in Portugal

And you may ask yourself, how many Portuguese are exactly the same (in the way they think about Brazilians and all foreigners) as this disgusting bitch, but maybe not quite so obvious, and maybe a little better at hiding it?

If you answered almost all of them, you got that right, and this means you’ve spent enough time living in Portugal, among Portuguese people, that you’ve seen their true ugly face, and it resembles the face of the woman below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8S9cc-p4NQ

I love to see rancid foreigners get what they deserve, no one invited you, nobody wants you near.
 
You have to be delusional to stay around.
 
Honestly get fucked! Ahahahahah

Hi SuckMyDick,
Thank you for exhibiting such an exquisite display of charm.

To anyone even thinking about coming to Portugal…this is but a small taste of how the majority of people in Portugal talk when they don’t get what they want.

Some of them just say: “I’ll kill you…” when you stop them from stealing stuff from you.

Love to see you cry

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That’s a good point, imagine your life depending on such a creature, and if a foreigner stays long enough in Portugal one day, it will. A truly frightening thought!

I already left Portugal, over a year ago, however someone I care about is still there, and I’m trying to help them get out, before it’s too late

And yes, that video above sums it up, and it should be called “Understand the real Portugal in 40 seconds”

Today, 25th of April, the people celebrating 50 years of liberty are the same who strip you of your right to have it.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Portugal.

Hi there,
Unfortunately and as a Portuguese citizen, I subscribe your words.

Portugal is a place with no law and where the crime and corruption became part of the society and in my words it’s becoming even worse.
This country has a reputation for being “safe” and “pleasurable” to live just because of tourism. Now for those who live here the reality is incredibly different.
The Portuguese personality in general it’s disgusting. They don’t like to see you happy and having a nice lifestyle, because they’re jealous as hell. As a Portuguese I don’t trust in most of the people as well, because when with you they can look to be nice people, but as soon as you leave they’ll judge, criticise and make your life a hell.
Even within my extended family, I’ve experienced it, so I’m Portuguese, but I hate the Portuguese people and being from this miserable country.

I left Portugal 1 month ago and obviously life is not easy it doesn’t matter the place, but I don’t feel like coming back to that country again. I don’t even feel homesick about it.

For the people who are looking forward to come to Portugal, I just tell you to think well about this move.

Portugal used to be better and nowadays the immigration as many other topics has no rules and isn’t being managed at all. Everyone can enter this country, and the immigration doesn’t care if they have sufficient funds to provide for themselves, if they have work and accommodation, so after all, the honest people are the ones who have to give their money to provide to those people and to the thilthy thieves in the government who will try to steal every cent they can.

I wish my country had never existed. As a Portuguese I’m really disappointed and upset with it.

Its true! I am portuguese and this country is a SHITHOLE!!

I found this blog at the right time. I was robbed when I decided to buy a car in Portugal. I was left without my money and without the car and I was manipulated by the thieves. I’m going to sell my house in Cascais, I’ve already made my decision, thank you for this blog. I’d rather forget what money I’ve lost, but being away from this country is infinitely better.

Years ago I bought a car from a dealership in Portugal. Weeks later I realized it had a hidden issue that is hard and expensive to repair. I found out that under Portuguese law it was under 2 year warranty, so I went to the dealership and asked them to repair it. They asked me to wait for a couple month. I waited. Then after nothing I went t the dealership again. They took my car and gave me a complete junk car to drive around that was dying every 5 minutes and was hard to restart. After a month hearing nothing from the dealership and seeing them driving my car to work etc. I went there again and they returned my car, but with an almost empty tank of petrol. I gave it to them with almost a full tank. They gave me some fake document of repair which showed a date of repair being done BEFORE a date of purchase of the car by me. Fraudsters! The car was not repaired and they used up the petrol in the tank and drove almost 1000 km with it. I got many stories like this living in Portugal. I can’t afford to move. I have learned how to deal with problems living in Portugal, but many poroblems are so overwhelming.

Alert for women

If you are a woman in Portugal, you have to be doubly careful: your life is worth nothing in that country. The Portuguese police do not care about solving crimes against women, and if you are a foreigner, even less. In other words, they don’t give a crap about women and their safety.
Do not maintain a relationship with a Portuguese man because Portuguese men tend to be very chauvinist, violent and envious. Portuguese men are born manipulators and their humor consists of mocking and humiliating women (especially foreign women). On top of that, many are truly mentally ill – and the illness is not visible to the naked eye **. The truth is that, in general, Portuguese society is quite affected in its mental health **.
Be very careful: in Portugal everything is a trap, everything is hidden, fake… (including many figures of domestic violence are made up).

Original text in Spanish:

Alerta para las mujeres

Si sos mujer, en Portugal, tenés que cuidarte al doble: tu vida no vale nada en dicho país. A la policía portuguesa no le importa solucionar los crímenes en contra de las mujeres, y si sos extranjera, menos. Es decir, les chupa un huevo la mujer y su seguridad.
No mantenga una relación con un hombre portugués porque los portugueses suelen ser hombres muy machistas, violentos y envidiosos. El hombre portugués es un manipulador nato y su humor consiste en burlarse y humillar a las mujeres (sobretodo extranjeras). Encima muchos son verdaderos enfermos mentales – y la enfermedad no se nota la simple vista. ** La verdad que, en general, la sociedad portuguesa es bastante afectada en su salud mental**
Tenga mucho cuidado: en Portugal todo es una trampa, todo es oculto, falso.. (incluso muchos datos de violencia domestica están maquillados).

**
https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/portugal-e-o-2-pais-com-mais-casos-psiquiatricos-e-o-5-com-mais-depressoes-na-uniao-europeia-17096149.html/

The portuguese are well known within the anglophone world as prone to having an horrible attitude problem.
What to expect from a country where its citizens constantly mistreat their own by all sorts of different ways? It’s hard to believe anything about this country since they do so.

There’s 5 main chores I consider within portuguese evil:
– the justice
– the health
– the education
– the economy
– the sport

I believe you summarised well everything that is happening with the justice in Portugal. What is wrong is right there and what is right is wrong. Politics control everything in this country, even job offers, but specially justice.

Portugal like many developed countries in Europe has an underfunded health system. However the situation is even worse there as it ranks high for brain drain due to the poor economy and poor salaries. As this was not enough, many portuguese take advantage of this and a poor justice system to threaten health professionals (usually doctors, obviously) with sexual offences on courts in order to get easy money through indemnization. Situations like this are very common and very rarely they’re directed against poorer health professionals. No surprise from a poor country full of scum like Portugal. Apart from this it’s now emerging a team of unprofessional doulas since there has been many maternities closed for lacking of labour force. These doulas, instead of focusing on doing their work which many may find useful, prefer to focus on discrediting all the work done by health professionals, again, specially doctors of course, and selling the idea that all women should be giving birth naturally at home (there’s no birth centres in Portugal but they’re not worried about asking for them either), regardless the potential dangers. All this in order to increase their book of clients of course, not for real interest on the future mother’s health. Sometimes not even their own. There’s an Instagram page of a portuguese doula proudly describing her happy daughter’s birth, who aspired meconium after an induced birth using a shawl (a technique not recommended by doulas on developed countries) and was then born on a poor where her mother was sitting her dirty bottom for hours.

The public education is massively biased towards left wing politics. And as not enough, information is a subject of fear in Portugal. The education system or anything supposed to exist to inform someone, withdraws information instead. For narcissistic reasons and for competitive, manipulative and dictatorial ones too.

The economy is fully corrupt with big company groups, bankers, politicians and lawyers controlling the majority of it.

The sport. Portugal is a country of football, it seems like nothing else exists there. Not only they still have hooliganism it is massively corrupt, using the club, its management and even the organisations managing the sport for all sorts of criminal stuff, drugs, violence, harassment, etc. It’s no surprise many footballers have no luck in certain countries abroad. Their manners speak for themselves on the pitch. There was a recent case where one of them, playing abroad at top level, after spitting on another for no reason at all was put on training with the u-21 and then on loan somewhere else abroad. Hopefully to not return. Despite this or being average on pitch football organisations in his own country instead did and do everything to protect him/them and everyone around, getting involved on court cases and using harassment, threats and violence against those who mess with their little boys family or connections. Connections even get jobs after being jobless for ages because of the said and on companies related to the field. There’s a famous portuguese whistleblower exposing all the corruption around football in the country, including how games are won.

Since all this is a cultural problem, the only way to solve it is by total removal of its population and mingling them with more civilized ones. And avoid anything about the country while they’re still there.

There’s only one solution for Portugal

Give all the foreigners in Portugal 48 hours to evacuate, tell them it’s time to leave Portugal for the Portuguese.

Then nuke the entire country from orbit

It’s the only all way to be sure

Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” is a quote from the 1986 sci-fi film “Aliens” in which Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) decides that nothing is worth saving and that the only sure way to destroy all of the aliens (aliens = Portuguese) is to nuke their habitat from orbit

In a Facebook group that is discussing the mistreatment of terminal patients, and relatives, in Portuguese hospitals, I found the following post. (I’m leaving out the name of the person who posted this, as well as the Facebook group where it was posted, to protect her privacy)

And the more I learn about Portugal, the more I’m starting to suspect that there are thousands, tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of horrible stories similar to the one below, that have happened, and are happening now, even as I write this, in Portuguese hospitals, in a land of savage barbarians and inhuman monsters

But the truth about Portugal is finally starting to come out

Here’s the post:

In 2018 I gave birth to a stillborn baby on April 13th. After initial poor care from the maternity and local doctors combined with a total lack of communication Edwards Syndrome was diagnosed quite late. Even though I was 100% sure of my dates and an experienced mum we were told that I couldn’t possibly be as far in the pregnancy as I claimed as the baby was very small which is common with this condition. The staff were abrupt and uncaring, I became unwell and was admitted to Coimbra hospital as my blood pressure was extremely high.

To my dates our son, John Robert was born at 26 weeks gestation, they claimed I was 22 weeks. I was forced to give birth to him on a ward with other pregnant women around me, my husband wasn’t called and when I asked if I could see him I was told he was clinical waste and not to be ridiculous. When I vocalised I had the right to hold him and say goodbye I was drugged to knock me out. The next morning my husband arrived to find me restrained to my bed, bleeding heavily and with a bucket next to me to pee in. He took me home and called a private midwife we had hoped to use and they took me to a different hospital where they found I had retained placenta and needed surgery.

I was not allowed my sons remains for a funeral or given the chance to get anything to remember him by xx

Thank you for this page. It has been my therapy knowing I am not alone on my struggles with my own people, the portuguese.

I live in England since the brexit referendum and I’ve been trying to keep these troubles aside from interfering with my new life I chose, away from all of them and anything related to this country on every aspect of my life. After 30 years dealing with all the things you and others describe here, not making any loyal and trustworthy friend at school, university, professional life, having problems after unnecessary problems, dealing with a biased, corrupt and formatted education system, being stolen on my social life and on my professional one, dealing with violence from those I thought cared, never being or doing anything right, discussing over petty unintelligent issues and even dealing with inconsiderate family members, I decided to leave to not return.

I didn’t leave for economic reasons. It was purely social. I visit there only for property reasons and my parents. And I’m a perfectly normal person, not ugly, not dumb, not disabled. I’m just not like them in terms of character. They keep complaining about everything but they’re the ones responsible. And since I moved abroad I realised how all of them look like they need antidepressants. Also, if you’re white they make racist comme