☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“I’d done all the background research and had so many spreadsheets,” says Angela Wiggins, who moved to Lisbon from Nashville, Tennessee, in December and works remotely, “but I didn’t speak the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> and needed assistance on the hoops we needed to jump through.” Her move only came after investigating a number of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/alternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alternatives</span></a>. </p><p>“Initially, I explored several countries — <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> — but didn’t meet the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/residency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>residency</span></a> criteria. That led me to broaden the search to places I hadn’t thought of as a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/possibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possibility</span></a>. </p><p>I had never visited <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a>, but I was drawn to its sense of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>safety</span></a>, stable <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>banking</span></a> system, efficient <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a>, beautiful <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/landscapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscapes</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/cosmopolitan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmopolitan</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> and more relaxed <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PaceOfLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaceOfLife</span></a>.”</p><p>Translation: I didn’t bother to learn the language, and I’m exporting the worst traits of the USA.</p><p><<a href="https://archive.md/rdqZV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/rdqZV</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>> / <<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/7cc645c7-1081-4d90-9400-9e7b70770f41" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/7cc645c7-1081-4</span><span class="invisible">d90-9400-9e7b70770f41</span></a>></p>