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Loïc

Hello everybody,

The COVID-19 crisis inevitably impacts Portugal, between closed airports or periods of containment in some cities or even the entire country .
We would like to hear from you during this unusual period, to find out what the consequences of this pandemic are on your expatriation or expatriation project in Portugal.

Does the current crisis call into question your long-term expatriation project?
If you are already settled in Portugal, do you plan to return to your home country?

How are you living through such an uncertain period, especially if you are far from your loved ones?

Have any of you ended your expatriation in Portugal unexpectedly?

Paradoxically, has this crisis brought you closer to some people?

What are your plans for the future?

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Hope you are doing well.

Loïc.

Dr.Cerna

Does the current crisis call into question your long-term expatriation project?
No, it dies not.

If you are already settled in Portugal, do you plan to return to your home country?
I am not fully settled at theoment. Need to start the process after the state of emergency. This aspect may influence my expatriation project.

How are you living through such an uncertain period, especially if you are far from your loved ones?
Being away and in isolation has been the hardest part, but bearable since the macro environment in Portugal makes me feel safe.

Have any of you ended your expatriation in Portugal unexpectedly?
No

Paradoxically, has this crisis brought you closer to some people?
Yes, to mom and to my Portuguese friends, and a couple of people I know from childhood.

What are your plans for the future?
Learn Portuguese, and keep moving forward. My business basically died with crisis in its original form. So, I plan to start anew in Portugal.

ThisIsParadise

I would say that I feel safer in Portugal than I would currently feel anywhere else in Europe, Asia, North America, or Africa (I can't assess Australia's situation now but I feel the only places other than Portugal where I might feel safe too would be islands, like say St. Martin where I lived earlier for a while).
Why safer here in Portugal?
A number of reasons: not only the (yet) lowest(?) infection rate (often wondered why, maybe because of its geographic location at the edge of Europe?? But then, it had the same vast international travel of goods and people as other nations!). Also the fact that Portugal is very rural mostly, less crowds of course means less infection risk.
Also the healthy food I eat here is an immense immune system boost. Fresh natural water. A lot plays into why I still love Portugal. And then of course: the endless lovely people!
Enough for now, dinner time :)

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