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[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Yes

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I see young people who work 3 or 4 months just to pay for their cellphones

 

[Admin.]

you know in "jump" where they sing "I get up and nothing gets me down"? yeah, not so much

 

[LotusBud]

Yeah. Minimum wage is around $800 a month here. That used to be enough to live on, but in the last five years all the Airbnb ers and house flippers have ruined that.

 

[Lily]

I love that sillynass song!

 

[Seamajor]

Almost everything related to wine and growing grapes is SubContracted out. Maintenance, pesticides, picking, fermenting and labeling and bottling. A few large wineries still do it themselves, but not many.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

@LotusBud I've been hearing that a lot here

 

[LotusBud]

My neighbor's son just told me the other day that his mom, the neighbor I really adore, has Alzheimer's. My heart is breaking over that. Gonna go check on her now.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Brazilians who want to save money in Portugal these says have to be single and live like 5 or 6 in a house

 

[LotusBud]

@Rancid, about Portugal. or about Brasil?

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

Portugal

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

The girl that helps me here was working there just to pay for the babysitter after she had herl ittle girl

 

[Lily]

Poor lady, what a terrible affliction.

 

[LotusBud]

Oh. Yes, it is so very, very bad for the general local economies. It's horrific. Housing costs have literally doubled in the last 3 years. I hate all these fucking house flippers with a passion.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

She came back to Brazil with her kid and left her husband there because he didn't want to come back

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

She said she lived way better here than there

 

[LotusBud]

Yeah, it's bad. I feel so worried about it. It was not like this at all just 6 years ago.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

The girls kicking the leaves, the dogs running around, LOL

 

[Lily]

Laws are needed to curb investments in property for profit

 

[LotusBud]

It just breaks my heart to see people work that hard for so little money while Musk and Bezos and their ilk just rake in more and more money that they can't spend. What a world.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

So many houses sitting empty while so many people are homeless or living in cars, that's something that makes you think

 

[LotusBud]

Thye laws need to get strict. Portugal has cracked down on Airbnbs in Lisbon and Porto, and they got rid of the golden visa scheme, but they haven't done enough.

 

[Lily]

Exactly @RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©

 

[LotusBud]

And now with the center right in control, I don't know if they ever will do enough. The right blames poor immigrants for this, not rich investors.

 

[Lily]

People are inherently ruled by their fears

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I still believe that's gonna change in the coming years

 

[LotusBud]

Yes, there are a lot of empty houses in Portugal. And speculators are buying them, which helps no one but the already wealthy.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

The younger generations have a complete different mindset

 

[Lily]

I just don't understand these peoole that fear everything

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

They're worried with the basics and prizing lives with less worries