Planning to retire in Portugal

Hi Rolanddi,

Please see this link, I think some (not all) of your questions are already answered there.

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=898534

In addition to the various South African expats who are on this Portugal Forum, which I invite to help you, there is also Cindy, a 60 year old youtuber.

https://www.youtube.com/c/CindyVine

Recently, Cindy, a south african who have lived in Norway for some years, has bought a property in Central Portugal. In her youtube channel you can see all the process involved she has passed through to realise her life project. This may help anyone who is searching answers in subjects like this one.

There are also other expat vlogs on youtube, which I put here, a couple of months ago:

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=895906

Good day JohnnyPT.
Thank you so much for your inputs for further research. Appreciate it.
Regards

Rolanddi,

I grew up in Joburg and my father worked in the aviation industry for many years. I admire the fact that you are gathering the courage to depart a lovely country, but that has its challenges, Many of my father's friends did not make a move and they find themselves financial hostages.

I think this is one where you could drop me a line or contact, I will send you a list of 15 questions and we will be able to see very quickly what regions are worth investigating. This is a fairly standard process we use with people moving to Portugal from many countries and who, like yourself, need to discover Portugal. We do not publish it on forums as the answers are then confidential and specific to you only.

Feel free to be in touch and I will send you that list of questions. If nothing else, it mught save you some petrol...

Thank you Algarveseniorliving for your response and kind of support.

First things first. Hats off to your dad! Wise man! :-)

Any guidance towards finding "the place" or even the region where we would be most comfortable would be great. Your experience, together with the list of questions you mentioned, would be appreciated.

Thank you