So you want to take advantage of European quality of life, social nets and infrastructure, but you don't want to help pay for it? How very American.

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piva00 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've met a few Americans living like that in Portugal, there are communities that formed in some villages away from the main cities where real estate is very cheap since most villagers had died or moved out. They were proud of not paying Portuguese taxes, I couldn't understand how you can be proud of taking advantage of a society while not contributing financially to it to support the services you enjoy.

It's hard for me to understand this mentality...

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Supernaut 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The real question is why the Portuguese government is allowing this to happen?

	▲	hellcow 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		NHR (the tax scheme that the parent is discussing) ended. If you didn't already move to Portugal under it, it's no longer available to you, so your question should really be in the past tense. NHR 2.0 offers much reduced benefits and in a much narrower scope.

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danayfm 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Once you get used to paying less taxes you don't want to go to paying more and getting the mostly the same. Healthcare costs is different. Also there's the high EU VAT taxes which are taxes already.