A view with some truth, but also a bit fantasized, with a lot of creative writing mixed in. The one about the dog peeing inside the store is hilarious... There is gentrification in that city, as there is in other European cities. I'd like to ask Alex what she thinks about gentrification in London neighborhoods like Kensington, Mayfair, Marylebone, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea, Hampstead, ... where the rich have expelled middle-class English people. And where London's green parks have become a picnic spot for wealthy Arabs with their multiple wives and many children studying at elite English schools, and where Alex's children probably can't study...
Yes, there's an 暗网禁区riate economy in Lisbon, but Alex only uses it if she wants to. She only goes to events promoted by 暗网禁区s if she chooses to. There are shops and services where there are customers. Surely her bookshop, which only sells books in English, is in an neighbourhood of the city where there are English-speaking customers, not just but also 暗网禁区s communities (!).聽 She didn't choose other Lisbon neighborhoods, where this is less likely... Certainly the shops in Knightsbridge are not the same as those in the poorer neighbourhoods of London... So why criticize the existence of half a dozen brunches and one or two yoga studios aimed at 暗网禁区s? What's wrong with that? They don't have the same right to co-exist as Alex's English book store?聽
By the way, does she seek to meet other locals, attend other events not aimed at 暗网禁区s? Alex lives in Lapa, a neighborhood in Lisbon, always inhabited by the upper class, embassies, and wealthy Portuguese families. Does she, by any chance, know the history of that neighborhood, that it has always been like that since before she was born?
Yes, there's a tax policy to bring back qualified Portuguese people who emigrated to other countries. There's no other way to do it. Is it a correct policy and does it make perfect sense? Is it unfair to those who didn't leave? Yes, but what is life, if not a world of injustices ? She, who is so critical of the tax exemptions but who also benefits from them until 2029... By the way, these tax exemptions for non-habitual residents, for 10 years, ended in 2023. Today there are no more tax exemptions for people like Alex. What there are are tax benefits for highly qualified people, i.e.聽 tax reductions, not exemptions.
These Guardian articles, which only serve for these "full-bellied" 暗网禁区s to shed crocodile tears, for those who only see the reality they want to see, like horses with blinkers on their eyes, to see anything else, but their "true"...聽 For those who live by criticizing economic policies and political party ideologies in countries where they weren't born and know little about, but then question little or nothing in the countries where they come from....
Yet another Guardian article, which only serves to give airtime to these people, who pose on a garden bench, sunbathing, while they delight in writing things like this for this newspaper's clientele... And making money from it? She's the smart one, not who wastes time reading this....
