As a 27 year-old who lives where “nobody lives”, I can confirm no one lives here

@stevekane4922

Ай бұрын

Cu de judas?

@diogotabreu

Ай бұрын

@@stevekane4922um bocadinho mais longe. É mesmo no caralho mais velho 😂 (ps: sou a mesma pessoa que fez o primeiro comentário, mas numa conta diferente)

@stevekane4922

Ай бұрын

@@diogotabreu BTW you have such an "interior" name 🤣. Would fit into my former village in the mountains of arcos de Valdevez just fine. Teixeiras and Abreus made up all my neighbours but Diogo is pretty left field. Should be Antonio, Zé or Zé Manel. Diogo is kinda "Rapaz da Família" for those parts.

@drumshero03

Ай бұрын

@@stevekane4922 that’s a very funny observation! I was raised and lived my whole life in the middle of Lisbon, but I moved to “nowhere” about 1 year ago. However, my surname (Teixeira de Abreu) is from a small village in the Beira region, where my paternal grandfather was from

@stevekane4922

Ай бұрын

@@drumshero03 I lived 600m up in the mountains for 31 yrs but recently had to sell up and move to vila nova de Gaia because mountain life was too tough at our age.

As a Spaniard 🇪🇸, I must say that Portugal 🇵🇹 is one of my favorite countries in the world because of its people, culture, cuisine and history. It is necessary that there be greater interaction between Portugal and Spain, both culturally (such as promoting the learning of Portuguese in Spain and Spanish in Portugal), economically or transport (promoting high-speed rail connections between Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon , but also between Porto and Galicia). Um abraço a todos os vizinhos portugueses! 🇪🇸❤️🇵🇹

@bazookaman1353

Ай бұрын

Ola 👋

@shellminator

Ай бұрын

love u guys

@jorgemsc

Ай бұрын

In Portugal 🇵🇹 we already promote the learning of Spanish 🇪🇸 in schools, however English 🇬🇧 and French 🇫🇷 are predominant.

@GuilhermeBarreto1143

Ай бұрын

The iberian supremacy lives hermano 🇵🇹🇪🇸

@Wawa-mv7ho

Ай бұрын

Im portuguese and uhm like we all already speak spanish it's widely taught in schools and in some you're forced to learn it and it's not optional, regardless my point is, everyone here understands Spanish, most people here can speak it too; it's a shame that this is not the case in spain.

I see the confirmation in the comments that you are Portuguese. I listened and thought to myself - hm, his pronunciation is really spot on. He is either native or showing off 😁

@marcelovitorino2837

Ай бұрын

From my personal observation - living in and traveling to different countries over 30 years, I believe the Portuguese, in general, are the the best non-native English speakers amongst all Latin Europeans and Latin Americans. He is probably Portuguese but I don't think he was showing off. His English is awesome!

@rubensilva8936

Ай бұрын

@@marcelovitorino2837 he is Portuguese!

@marcomonsanto

Ай бұрын

As soon as he said the city names I was like, he is either Portuguese or extremely good. But then he said Viana do castelo and Ourense, no more doubts after that 😂

@pedroramalho121

Ай бұрын

​@@marcomonsantoyes Viana do Castelo is hard for a non Portuguese.

@palkys.

Ай бұрын

Yeah, our language allows us to adapt easily to almost any accent. When studying abroad I remember having difficulty pronouncing turkish only. Words in french, english, greek, german, etc etc are all easy to pronounce to us if we care enough. Still, not all of us are good speakers, some of us have strong regional accents, which will affect other languages. Brazilians struggle more in general, for example

I like how you can instantly spot Porto and Lisbon with just the density map and no names 😂

@carlossaraiva8213

Ай бұрын

Well, he is portuguese...

@bababababababa6124

Ай бұрын

@@carlossaraiva8213I know the guy on this channel is Portuguese, I wasn’t talking about him specifically. I was talking about non Portuguese people like me. Should have worded that better

@Scarlazer

Ай бұрын

@@carlossaraiva8213Ok

@olivernordin

Ай бұрын

The same can be done for every country where you know a couple of cities

In regards to this sad reality of the depopulation of the interior of the country, which goes back centuries, there's actually a pretty funny story: around the second half of the 15th century, a priest - Father Costa - preached at Trancoso. Trancoso was a village (nowadays, a decently populated city) located near Northeastern Portugal (Beira Alta, as it is called here), one of the regions which now, and even more at the time, most suffered from a lack of people. Father Costa, however, changed that, fathering, in all the years he spent there, 299 children with dozens upon dozens of local women - including his aunt and his own mom. Upon discovery of his crimes, he was sentenced to be executed in a very nasty manner. However, this was commuted after he received a personal pardon from the king, Dom João II, on account of the great help he had provided in regards to populating the region. To this day, a statue of him, narrating his deeds, stands outside a restaurant in Trancoso.

@mohamedjear8917

Ай бұрын

"His deeds" 💀💀💀💀

@naphackDT

Ай бұрын

What an absolute gigachad.

@DiogoF.

Ай бұрын

I wasn't expecting that 😂

@ZombiemanOhhellnaw

Ай бұрын

This was in the 15th century, that must mean he now has 10s of thousands of descendants... And they might not know of each other 😬

@ZombiemanOhhellnaw

Ай бұрын

If you told me his last name was Ferreira, this would make a lot of sense! 😂

I'm currently taking Portuguese lessons (still very much a beginner lmao), and I just love watching and hearing you talk about your native country and using Portuguese. Muito obrigado e saudações dos Paises-Baixos, espero poder visitar o seu lindo país novamente em breve! 🇳🇱 ❤🇵🇹

@Bludthinkshesnapoleon

Ай бұрын

Boa sorte mano. Great job on that portuguese phrase btw

@LennyCash777

Ай бұрын

It seems like I've been coming across more people recently who are interested in European Portuguese (and Portugal), which is kind of strange to me because European Portuguese has not really been cared about all that much from what I've seen. I think usually people opt for Brazilian Portuguese and/or Spanish. The other day I came across a channel of a Swedish guy that considers European Portuguese to be his favorite language and learned to speak it fluently by studying it on his own. His channel is *MadChirpy,* but he hasn't uploaded anything new in a while. Anyway, good luck with your own study of the language and hopefully you'll get the chance to visit Portugal one day like you say you'd like to do.

@frapiment6239

Ай бұрын

@@LennyCash777 Don't matter what variant of Portuguese (european/brazilian) you choose beside the accent and some expressions there is no differences. So the best its really to use content from all countries that speak portuguese to get used to different accents and improve your vocabulary.

@z0rO999

Ай бұрын

My eu4 hours let me spot any city, especially in iberia lol

@abxorb

Ай бұрын

@@BludthinkshesnapoleonHahaha, obrigado, thank you! 😁

The important part for me, as a Galician, is that our portuguese brothers don't forget us. I always say we should look South, not East

@GoncaloFerreira

Ай бұрын

I have a home in Oporto also (I sometimes live there some years in a row), and I know lots of you brothers from Galicia visit us specially now in the Easter time, some of us visit you also, but more the Northern ones as they live nearby. Galego is very close to ours, one of my friends from there talk always in Galego and it's easy to know that "çom" is our "ção", like "comunicaçom" but the Google Translator only has the "Internacional Galego" which is Castellano. I think that more people over there should require Google to have the real Galego available.

I live in Norfolk in U.K (east UK). and we have a high population of Portuguese, I’m actually really good friends with a few. They’ve also introduced me to visiting Portugal, and I have had Portuguese lessons and toured the country vastly. One friend lives in Lisbon and the other in Castelo de vide near the border. Both places vastly different but from what I can tell that makes the country a beautiful thing, the diversity of cities and rural communities, I think a lot of Portuguese will return back after economics improve as its in my eyes a wonderful country and the people are warm and welcoming.

@philippelensen9894

Ай бұрын

I used to live in castelo de vide, it is the most stunning place !

@rrs_13

Ай бұрын

Remote working, shortage of housing in the big urban areas and its consequential price climb are making people return to a lot of their "ancestor's" villages, towns and small cities. The village where my godson lives only had about 5 elderly couples living there in 2018 (plus my godson's parents). Today, every upright house has been bought or rented, and essentially every house in ruins is being rebuilt, even the local primary school is touted to be reopened. For the good of the country and the people who live in it, I feel the rural exodus is being replaced by an urban exodus.

@ivoalbino7179

Ай бұрын

As a portuguese who lived in Norwich for 5 years, Norwich is prob one of the best cities in the UK imo.

@GoncaloFerreira

Ай бұрын

I hope they recommended you Sintra, which is, as Lord Byron told before, "A glorious Eden".

@henner777

Ай бұрын

@@ivoalbino7179 yes I’m from there 😎

Finally a video on my favourite country in Europe

@nostro1940

Ай бұрын

The video uploader is portuguese

@BOO-ii3ni

Ай бұрын

Everyone loves Portugal except the people that used to live there since it is the country with most emmigrants in europe.

@thailux6494

Ай бұрын

@@BOO-ii3niit’s not that Portuguese people that moved abroad don’t like Portugal. They don’t like its wages. I’m one. Why would I work for 1300 eur per month in Portugal if I can go to Luxembourg and earn 7000?

@lost_porkchop

Ай бұрын

​@@BOO-ii3niNot true. I left as a child and although I would love to come back, I just have no one left there. Some parts of the culture have also just become foreign to me. I would be a stranger in my own country. It breaks my heart, but it's just reality.

@Ed_Lotovich

Ай бұрын

​@@lost_porkchop I understand you so much!!! I feel the same! This is very strange when you are a foreigner between your compatriots and at the same time you are compatriot of the foreigners

Waiting for the continuation of these Megalopolis series

@amritkarmacharya2093

Ай бұрын

ganges region

The way he said Porto was uncanny, is he Portuguese? Because he said it just like a Portuguese would

@mulsenermset

Ай бұрын

Yes he is

@nasty.nelson

Ай бұрын

Once i heard it his whole accent made sense, had me guessing for a bit.

@spectralspectra2282

Ай бұрын

@@mulsenermset I realised he was once he started listing cities lmao

@Bajolzas

Ай бұрын

He pronounced every city perfectly because he is tuga. He even has a video in portuguese, speaking of the European union or something, can't remember.

@diogorodrigues747

Ай бұрын

@@Bajolzas It was about the European elections, in 2019 if I'm not mistaking.

One thing that wasn't addressed and which in my opinion is the key to the Portuguese megalopolis is the National Railway Plan, specifically the high speed rail linking Porto and Lisbon. It promises to connect the two largest urban areas in the country in 1h15, effectively creating one single urban area from Braga all the way down to Setúbal despite not being physically connected. With the connection to Vigo this megalopolis can stretch into Galicia as well.

@waltermessines5181

Ай бұрын

When will it be completed? Setúbal to Faro any time soon?

@tomsmithdeal8286

Ай бұрын

The problem with the rail line is that it runs too far inland with no access to Torres Vedras, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Figueria da Foz and Coimbra. They desperately need a rail line that follows the population centers.

@waltermessines5181

Ай бұрын

@@tomsmithdeal8286Could not agree more; it took me by surprise that the "Fátima" train station is still a good 22 km from the actual place. But it doesn't look like it is going to happen any time soon. Would be a major investment also.

As a Portuguese, there are two nations I love the most, first my neighbours Spain & second is the UK, our oldest ally. VIVA, Portugal, Spain, UK.

@DiogoF.

Ай бұрын

🇵🇹🇪🇺

@lycaonwolfhook

Ай бұрын

menudo trio historico...😅

@BeYourselfMan

Ай бұрын

@@lycaonwolfhook 100% Our three nations basically put Europe on the map. 👍

@andrecorreia3808

Ай бұрын

and our Brazilian brothers where do you put them? ahah

@BeYourselfMan

Ай бұрын

@@andrecorreia3808 Oh man, forgive me. 😆 How can I forget O Brazil !!!!!!!

I understand that youtubers need to be sponsored and earn a living but still seeing people accept betterhelp sponsorships makes me mad a lil

@hisham_hm

Ай бұрын

maybe they're not aware of how bad it is, they should watch that video about it

@FuchsHund

Ай бұрын

Why?

@dustmighte

Ай бұрын

The screening questionnaire isn't covered by doctor/patient confidentiality and by signing up for Betterhelp they sell your answers to advertisers

@polishball_

Ай бұрын

@@FuchsHundthere was a leak that showed that the sessions were RECORDED AND USED TO MAKE PERSONALIZED ADS FOR YOUR ISSUES

@dutchuncle2716

Ай бұрын

@@FuchsHundBecause Betterhelp doesn't respect your privacy. Neither do Facebook of Google, but people expect better from health service providers.

I would love to visit Portugal. It looks like such a beautiful country. Love from the UK ❤

@BeYourselfMan

Ай бұрын

The UK are our oldest ally, you would be more than welcomed here. We love our British friends.

@tramagacity

Ай бұрын

You have so cheap flights from UK. Avoid holiday as especially Porto and Lisbon get very crowded in Summer time. A big British community living in the Algarve, many been living there for decades. You would love it it is a beautiful country, one of the best gastronomies in the world, great people.

This situation is reminiscent of Australia. Sydney isn’t going to join up with Melbourne, but we have more and more population in costal capitals and less inside the hinterland.

i did a round trip around Portugal last year! was amazing driving everywhere! the north eastern part was my favorite! ooo and PODENCE!

@edgarneto1154

Ай бұрын

Cool👍 :), those are the regions that escape tourist's eyes the most, and yet they're so nice.

@Luzitanium

Ай бұрын

how was the driving?? ahahha and the fuel prices??

@diogorodrigues747

Ай бұрын

@@Luzitanium The guy is from Sweden, a place where fuel prices aren't that cheap either. Of course, compared to the average wage, it's way cheaper for an individual than in Portugal, but the guy doesn't have a Portuguese wage.

@Luzitanium

Ай бұрын

@@diogorodrigues747 exactly now you understand why portuguese cant travel in their own country as much as a foreigner, thats why I asked him

@diogorodrigues747

Ай бұрын

@@Luzitanium "Now you can understand" ??? Eu sou português amigo.

Very interesting video. Can we expect more videos on other European megalopolis? The three "bananas"?😂

Wow, fantastic maps you found, like the geological one, the one with the population pikes, and the trees one, in adition to the density one going all the way into Galicia! Well done! And yes, all that Atlantic Axis, really is turning into a major Megalopolis! 😉 But that being the case, it's also good to keep the rest for nature, animal life, forests, water reserves, agriculture and mineral resources...

As portuguese, I agree with everything, nice research and i'm very pround the General of Knowledge is portuguese :p i think the last goverment invested in Leiria, tried to move people from Lisbon to more North, the climate is the same, so just need better roads and attractions for people move there. Also, invested in Maia, close to Porto in state houses to help people who needed house for a period of time, again to move people a little outside of big cities. This also helped the real state problem of high prices in Porto and Lisbon. Also, i saw investment in solar panels in Alentejo, because of the dry area, taking advantage of the sun in the area, making the energy in that area cheaper. Let's see what the new goverment will do to move people outside of the big cities. But i still don't think a Megalopolis will merge, it's a lot of area to join the two cities. Maybe in the year 2200 :p

@nox5555

Ай бұрын

Portugal doesnt have the population to merge Porto with Lisbon

@lpereira300

Ай бұрын

how the fuck is investing in Maia moving people outside the big cities? Maia is part of Greater Porto

@portugalgamermanel3404

Ай бұрын

@@lpereira300 Maia has half of population than Porto. Amadora is almost half population of Lisbon. if this cities around the big cities, have the same or more 25% population . that will help a lot in real state and also develop other cities. it still a big difference.

@lpereira300

Ай бұрын

@@portugalgamermanel3404 Maia and Amadora are not really different cities from Porto and Lisbon, that's my whole point.

@portugalgamermanel3404

Ай бұрын

@@lpereira300 why Porto and Lisbon have the double of people of those cities? if you rent a room or an apartment, like i did in those areas. people still prefer houses close to the downtown center "Baixa". it needs to be some education to explain cities around Porto and Lisbon have better quality of life and also cheaper. status matter a lot, and people prefer paying higher and have worst quality of life. spread people and companies to those areas already would be a great victory

Grande vídeo, meu mano! Parabéns

This is California...overlay SF/LA/San Diego at a ratio of 0.72 and you have a perfect match to Porto/Lisbon/Algarve, history aside there are likely very similar economic forces at play, I have lived in both (currently Lisbon), and if you are just looking at economic features they feel like living in the same place

Yes! I want a video on all megalopolis! Vai ser ganda video!

The Gauteng province in South Africa can also be classified as Megalopols, mainly the region from Soweto-Johanennesburg-Sandton-Midrand-Centerion-Pretoria

I hope I can visit Portugal this year. Been wanting to go for a long while.

The space between Lisboon and the Algarve coast is one of the most under populated places in the world it is almost empty And so beautiful

Honestly, as a spaniard I feel like we Iberians are just gonna end up being atlanteans by the end of it all, we just don't live in the interior, it's fascinating.

@paulocorreia7942

Ай бұрын

We almost have gills and fingers with membranes !!😄

@richardsantosgarcia8972

Ай бұрын

Ya te digo XD

@Mrcarvalher

Ай бұрын

As a Portuguese, I agree 😂

@anonUK

Ай бұрын

The Spanish all live on the Mediterranean coast, don't they? Apart from Madrid, most of the interior and the other coasts, of the North and North West, are depopulating.

@MW_Asura

Ай бұрын

Round two it is. But this time let's colonise the ocean so we can live there 😂

Btw, in Alentejo, "agriculture" mean olive tree plantations, almond tree plantations and vinneards

@Luzitanium

Ай бұрын

and cork plantations too.

@XofHope

Ай бұрын

It used to be wheat and barley too, there's a reason Alentejo was called the granary of Portugal.

@diogorodrigues747

Ай бұрын

@@XofHope Well, productivity of wheat and barley was always really low due to very poor soils. The thing about the granary of Portugal was mostly Estado Novo propaganda and it's impressive how people still buy it very well.

@XofHope

Ай бұрын

@@diogorodrigues747Tell that to the thousands of beirões who would go to Alentejo during harvest season. Of course it will never be as fertile as Central Europe's flatlands and, given the present economy, it's probably a good idea to bet on what they can't produce, like olive oil and good wine. However, when the country tried to be as self sufficient as possible, it was indeed the country's main granary.

@hugo-fr2rs

Ай бұрын

@@XofHope enphasis on "used to", it's all cash crops now (exept where there's forest, livestock or heavy restrictions)

I lived in Spain for 2 yeas and just visited Lisbon a week ago. I was super surprised by the density of population in comparison to the size and the difference between the core city and the metropolis

What an interesting video! Portugal is a lovely country and I would love to visit again soon!

I'll probably sound like a total dumdum, but here's some moves the government could do to mediate this situation in the future: -Connect Aveiro to Salamanca/Madrid with the high speed railway line, turning Guarda and the Beira Interior regions into a major exports and transportation hub between Portugal and Spain, taking advantage of its old industrial past (old infrastructures could be repurposed) and opening more oportunities for the cities around that region with the help of local companies, universities (UBI, IPCB), the works. -Instead of wasting time and resources with a brand new Lisbon airport, take advantage of the recently built Beja airport and connect it to Lisbon via high speed railway line, making it more purposeful and accesible for travellers. This way, it could take over most of the heavy duty flights, while the old Lisbon airport could be repurposed for smaller-scale flights. This way, Beja and Évora could thrive and have more opportunities in the future as well. Again, just my two cents. Great vid as always!

This is exceptional information! I’m glad I discovered you. I’m an American expat living in The Algarve.

@jackflanagle6079

Ай бұрын

Hey there, I'm also American about to move to the Algarve, found a place near Alcutim. Left the US 13 years ago, no regrets!

Thank You for this Video!! I love Portugal, mainly, Terceira Island. ❤❤

@Dripfish

Ай бұрын

Azoressss!

@Ferreira0504

Ай бұрын

Tenho primos e os tios na Praia da Vitória e os meus avós no lado de mãe são naturais de Angra do Heroísmo (Santa Luzia). Amo Terceira! ❤️ Saudações da Califórnia

I'm a US expat living in Vila do Conde, a northern suburb of Porto. The area from Vila do Conde , north to Povoa de Varzim and Viana do Castelo is one big metro center. It's hard to tell when you leave one city and enter the next.

@Apo110-11

Ай бұрын

What was the immigration process like? Portugal always seems like a nice place to live.

@balengdeh4812

Ай бұрын

immigrant*

@antoniocastelo8195

Ай бұрын

This is so very true. Mind you though, at least here, you still see quite a bit of farmland just some kilometers away from the city, though it's mostly small-scale, family things.

@octatonicgardenubirajarapi4978

Ай бұрын

I'm from Brazil living in Póvoa de Varzim and I think the metro should really be extended to Viana do Castelo, which is beautiful and the last big city on the north of the country.

Portuguese accent when I heard "VIana do Castelo" on the "Castelo". Cool videos, I subscribed. By the way, a megalopolis can be a good thing because this way we can leave more space for Nature, but we should occupy some interior cities a bit more, but concentrated always, to leave more space for Nature. PS: The "Lisbon Metropolitan Area" already includes Sesimbra, although it is from the Setúbal district.

Visiting this “megalopolis”, including its second and third largest cities, I can say it’s mostly trees. Trees, decaying empty houses. In Porto, I saw people on the streets but I’m the villages around Porto, I saw empty, decaying houses, trees, empty roads, mountains and did I say trees? Much of this “megalopolis” is less densely populated than the Dutch countryside where I live. Also, did I say already I saw a lot of trees? Yes, trees as far as the eye could see.

@MassiveChetBakerFan

Ай бұрын

You Dutch could use a lot more trees.

@afonsomartins6311

Ай бұрын

tree = bad

@diogorodrigues747

28 күн бұрын

Did you leave the highway though? Because, if you leave the highway, it's mostly a contiguous urban area. The highways are made in the middle of the trees because it's where there is space to build them.

First time on the channel. Great video, though the title is a bit misleading - Portugal isn't building a megalopolis, it's being formed by a lot of processes that are mostly not state-induced. Plus, I've been to Portugal recently, and the area between Lisbon and Porto felt pretty deserted to me. Maybe I'm just comparing it to an area like Haifa-Tel Aviv-Jerusalem, which is much more densely packed (and that's a video suggestion ;) ). There are about 7 million people there living on 4,000 km2. The same population in Portugal lives on more than 20,000 km2.

would love to learn more about Portugal

Hi. Yes please can do a video on the world"s Megalopolies that includes all the Megalopolies and the cities involved in the Megalopolies. Especially in the USA such as Los Angeles/Southern California, the growing Megalopolies in South West Florida around Miami and also all the cities involved in the Megalopolies in Europe showing all of this with maps like you did here. Thank you

This is a development that I think is actually advantageous. Cities (when managed well) are more efficient living spaces for people, and leaving larger areas of land empty and available for nature would be a great benefit.

@rui518

Ай бұрын

the problem is that those cities are not growing as expected, the Metro and other services does not reach far enough, the housing being built is not enough and prices are rising a lot, even in the belt between Lisbon and Porto. Also the public transportation is expensive, for example I live 100km from Lisbon and 10km from the Main Highway and railroad that connects Lisbon to Porto, I have easy access to both and the rail station near to me has most of the trains to connect, I use it once a week to go to the office in Lisbon, the expense is around 28€, I need to drive to the station, pay for daily park and then the ticket itself. If I used a cheap Diesel Car it would be 34€, Diesel, Tools and Park in Lisbon, an Eletric Car would be less than 20€ and is usually a bit faster, and I work close to one of the major stations that removes the need to take other transports as I just walk the last km to the office. I just did a cost analises and if I had to go daily it would cost 350€ by train and 440€ in an EV or 700€ in a Diesel, the EV would be cheaper being only 310€ if I decided to ignore the first Toll sector, but will add 15 minutes, still in line with the Train however... This just to prove how hard is to live outside the main cities as access to them is always more expensive even using the "cheap" public transport... Disclaimer the 260€ pass is the level two one, the basic is 210€ but does not allow to use faster trains and would make every travel be 1:30h instead of 1:00h.

@no_more_spamplease5121

Ай бұрын

A MUCH better model for quality of life is the Dutch one: lots of small towns very close to each other, without merging.

@Minu-lv1rk

10 күн бұрын

The natives of those regions will be sad, seeing their culture and land disappearing. This exodus also causes real estate chaos, housing prices in Portugal are extravagant for the population's salaries.

As a Portuguese myself, this is a great and accurate representation of our country. Great job! Although, I am a little bit more skeptical towards the idea that Portugal's costal cities will become anything close to other developed cities in Europe, in the near future. Before that, Portugal has to solve a lot of its social, political and other structural issues, before ever thinking about attaining that status.

@ZEROZERO-xx3qm

Ай бұрын

Portuguese people talking about their country as it was a developing nation and not one of the most developed countries in the world always gets me... Is this some kind of miserabilist fetiish of the portuguese people?

@alexandrefernandes6084

Ай бұрын

@@ZEROZERO-xx3qm Well it really isn't one of the most developed countries in the world... Places 47 in the world in terms of HDI so not quite there yet unfortunately. It is one of the most beautiful countries in the world though! Thats for sure

@frapiment6239

Ай бұрын

@@alexandrefernandes6084 40 in terms o HDI, 27 in term of prosperity, etc.. Yes Portugal is one of the top countries in the World but some Portuguese's have really a miserabilistic fetish that is so stupid.

@FilipeMiaoumiam

Ай бұрын

​@@frapiment6239the matter is still about future development and he's right. For us to grow, we need to be more organized and efficient, and lower the corruption. Although I agree Portuguese tend to see themselves as "coitadinhos", they also don't take any step to change things but rather hope that the people in charge will, while they keep watching football and going to the beach

@Dragonfury3000

Ай бұрын

​@@ZEROZERO-xx3qmif you lived here you would understand.

Always great to learn about the pais irmao 🇵🇹

Idea: Make a comparison video about Portugal and Brazil.

@Lukita-yh4kz

Ай бұрын

That would be a great video, maybe starting a series of comparing countries to their colonizers

Aveiro never felt so Metropolitan to me 😁 luckily porto and coimbra are a train ride away

@ionescuflorin7307

Ай бұрын

Who said it needs to be Metropolitan? It is actually a good thing the Praia da Barra/Costa Nova do Prado area has not been gentrified yet

Excellent video 😊!

Good video with detailed explanation

Thank you for the Portugal video! My family is from inland Portugal and I never relized how lucky I am that they are literate and had they been illiterate I might not be here.

@0hidetzugu

Ай бұрын

You'd be fine, people seem to be able to learn the birds and the bees without reading about it

@XofHope

Ай бұрын

@@0hidetzuguAnd usually, the less learned the more they reproduce!

Portugal is literally Brazil lite bc Porto x Lisboa is literally Rio x São Paulo in Brazil lol Even the reason for the sparsely populated interior is the same

@claudiopereira9900

Ай бұрын

Na verdade Brazil é Mega Portugal

I'M SO HAPPY THAT YOU PRONOUNCED ALL NAMES CORRECTLY. 🤩🤩

@rwentfordable

Ай бұрын

He's Portuguese.

New viewer here. It's incredible to see this subject being picked up and brought to a wider audience! Also, I'd like to ask if this video was voiced by a Portuguese person?

@aryanalfa2444

Ай бұрын

He's portuguesese for sure, the accent when he speakes the name of the cities it can come only from a native

Me trying to guess where from Portugal he is by listening several times to the words he says in portuguese:

@Miagrellum

Ай бұрын

Did you narrow it down to one district?

@edgarneto1154

Ай бұрын

Pretty neutral accent.

@OnyHipHopMusic

Ай бұрын

@@edgarneto1154 that usually means Lisbon district , altho a lot of northern speakers can emulate lisbon's more neutral tone with ease so its hard to guess

@jeanjacqueslundi3502

Ай бұрын

@@OnyHipHopMusic Lisbon doesn't have a neutral accent. Closest to one would be Coimbra.

@MVSSENJU

Ай бұрын

​@@Miagrellum a bit tough, he doesnt seem to have a very strong regional accent. But Id guess he's from around Lisbon - Santarem 🤔

Do a video about the Azores

HE HAS A NEW INTRO?? IT'S SO COOL!

In Finland, we have had a similar progression with the Helsinki Metropolitan area having 1,6 million people out of our 5,5 million and connecting three major cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. We also have the Tampere urban area having another 350 000 people and growing fast. Most small counties and towns are suffering from deindustrialization as our big industrial companies are no longer investing Finland but outside of Finland, resulting in a growing service sector and blue collar jobs in the big cities. I think this megatrend of urbanization will continue in every developed nation.

@no_more_spamplease5121

Ай бұрын

Which of these 3 cities have a sizable native-Swedish-speaking population?

Portugal 🇵🇹 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

Portugal es Amor, Portugal es Vida. Translation Portugal is Love, Portugal is Life.

@josecipriano3048

Ай бұрын

Para el turista, sí. Para el que se tiene que ganar la vida aquí es más una tortura que otra cosa.

I'd definitely be interested in more videos on megalopoli

Um abraço a todos os portugueses e portuguesas dos vossos irmãos espanhóis ❤❤❤❤

I predict that this trend will invert in a decade or so. With the rise of humanoid robots will make the expansion of infrastructure in the interior will become cheaper. And with the increase of remote work the cheaper living expenses in the interior will become more attractive. And that will only accelerate in the 2040s once we begin to transition into a post labors society and single family homes with a nice garden start to become the norm.

@ionescuflorin7307

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, remote work has been declining since the peak of COVID due to entrepreneurial culture being opposed to letting people work in their homes

@vi6ddarkking

Ай бұрын

@@ionescuflorin7307 Well the proponents of that culture at dying of old age so. It's only a matter of time.

It has always been like this. Our first kings gave the villages in the interior, especially near the border, all sorts and privileges so that people would move there, but even so it was a constant struggle. Given the terrain and climate they simply aren't as able to sustain as much agriculture and therefore as much people as the coast and Alentejo. Even if nowadays that's not as important, with highways making it easy to move goods around, it's unlikely the interior will ever become densely populated. Some policies could lead to a decent growth of cities like Viseu and Guarda, but that's the most of it. And that's not even a problem. There was only 1 million of us in the XVI/XVII centuries when we forged a large empire, now there are over 10 million. We have enough population already.

@nox5555

Ай бұрын

yeah, there was always movement to the coast, but the big difference was that the population was growing everywhere and only those without land would migrate to the cities, leaving a healthy population in the interior...

@diogorodrigues747

Ай бұрын

​@@nox5555 The big difference was that the population was living on abject poverty until very recently and didn't have the money or the skills to move out. Sometimes they didn't even have any possibility to leave, the villages were isolated from the rest of the country and it was complicated to travel. Once people became literated and had the way and the skills to move, they mostly did so because there were no prospects of life getting better in villages that had almost the same stagnant lifestyle for centuries. Piódão, as an example, didn't have any roads connecting it to the rest of the country until the 1960s, but once the village had an easier way for people to leave the parish lost 30% of its population in a few years, as the youth went abroad or to other regions. Right now there are only 16 inhabitants below the age of 25 in a population of 120 people (which is, by the way, 89% less than five decades ago).

Finally somebody bringing this up! I'm pretty sure that if this trend continues then we will surely see the rise of this yet hypothetical megalopolis, from coruña to lisbon. Some high speed rail system would definitely improve connectivity and lessen the hardships of living in suburbia

@joaomonteiro7063

Ай бұрын

Railways by 2060 🤘

The mega city is clearly being created. It will probably take a few years but you can clearly see it. For example, I live in what used to be a small village halfway between Lisbon and Setúbal. 20 years ago it was just some houses and forrest and now it clearly is expanding into a "land bridge" connecting these two cities, just like every other town along the way making them physically connected by residential areas, trains, and highways. This probably happens in the other coastal regions, so I'd say that in like 50 to 80 years that will probably happen.

And I hate it. You can't drive anywhere and if you are in the North, it is absolutely boring to drive anywhere because you are always in a residential area.

@Roosmarijn035

Ай бұрын

Not entirely true. If you drive up North from Lanheses, to and through the Serra de Arga, there are quite some parts where hardly anyone lives.

@TheAllMightyGodofCod

Ай бұрын

@@Roosmarijn035 are you seriously saying that my opinion (not a fact... An opinion) is not true? Seriously?

@afonsomartins6311

Ай бұрын

god forbid you need to get somewhere quick. foda se odeio tanto conduzir aqui

@TheAllMightyGodofCod

Ай бұрын

@@afonsomartins6311 I will allow you to drive anywhere you want quickly but I will ask you politely to not use such vulgar language when you reply to my comments. Thanks.

@Roosmarijn035

Ай бұрын

@@TheAllMightyGodofCod not entirely true, I said. You are entitled to your opinion of course. I am just stating my opinion that there are areas where it's not one residential clump of houses.

Megalopolis in a country that has 10 million inhabitants? It just can´t happen. Maps can lie. There aren´t many people on these darker areas of the maps, but the area size of the parishes and the country in general is so small that the density increases. The cities are not big, and there are a lot of rural areas between those cities. Besides Lisboa and Porto, there aren´t large metropolitan areas in Portugal... and those are not big either in area or population size. Portugal is not building any megalopolis, in fact, the population of Portugal would be decreasing if it was not by the foreigners.

@victormpmac

Ай бұрын

Que importa se são estranjeiros ou não , isso será o futuro , e e o que vai acontecer , as pessoas cada vez mais fogem para o litoral daqui a 100 anos o interior vai ficar deserto, por exemplo a freguesia onde nasci, á 50 anos tinha 1000 habitantes 200 ou pouco mais.

This is cool because, as a portuguese citizen who travels quite a bit, I don't need to drive that far to be in nature or a secluded village to go camp for example. Let me tell you, there's a lot of places where you can relax and leave the screen for a few days.

Megalopolises are one of the coolest concepts out there. We DEMAND a vid about them!

How Egypt is slowly building a new capital city.

@mikidias

Ай бұрын

Ya! Building a whole new future city based on DEBT 🤑 💲 📈 Lol 😂 🤣 🤭

@tiagogomes3807

Ай бұрын

Buildings a 50's City in the 2020s...

@NeutralDice

Ай бұрын

why not? if the architecture is fine @@tiagogomes3807

During the Age of Exploration, Portugal proportionally exported its excess population more than European competitors like Spain or the UK, thus it explains why inland Portugal is so deserted because many of their residents had migrated to Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique.

Bom conteúdo, com qualidade e revelando investigação e cuidado. Abraço!

Great video. Congrats.

Megalopolis may be a little excessive lol. A few cities which combined still have fewer people than cities like Luanda, Riyadh or Santiago

01:16 Here you made a mistake. The southern coast of Algarve is very densely populated, and you as a Portuguese (like me) clearly know why it is like that. 04:12 No, it doesn't. There is literally a continuous half urban area from Porto into Galicia because of the river Minho valley. Cities like Valença are literally in the area of influence of the Vigo Metropolitan Area, from which the town of Salvaterra de Miño, next to Monção, is a part of it. It's not very different from what it happens between Lisbon and Porto, where there is also an half urban continuous area. 04:30 Faro is literally on the coast, dude. It even has a small commercial port. 07:07 Those maps are highly outdated. Couldn't you literally get newer maps? 07:19 No, there aren't smaller railway circuits. Those ARE technically all the railways existing in the country for the time when the map was made (very likely from 2021, as it still shows the Beira Baixa line unfinished for example, and no international railway connections). I'm quite amazed that you're Portuguese and you don't even know that CP is still in practice a state monopoly of railways in 99% of Portugal. 09:54 I don't think the biggest problem was the illiteracy rate, Salazar actually managed to get down pretty well the illiteracy rate over time. It was still high but it was way lower than in the 1st Portuguese Republic. The problem was that Salazar didn't really invest in higher education, he didn't have any interest in doing so. This level of uneducated people but with the capacity to read was great for the regime and it was the thing that managed to keep it afloat for so long. The policy of education to the minimum is still something that affects Portuguese people until today. 11:05 Brazil isn't an African nation, it's an American one. 11:23 None of this has solved the problem? You're literally showing images related to futurology, taken directly from the National Railway Plan of Portugal. Of course they haven't solved the problem, they aren't even built. LOL

@amarco.m

Ай бұрын

@diogorodrigues747 chaval get a life! A sério que te deste ao trabalho de estar a fazer minuciosos reparos? Que tal fazer algum serviço público que realmente importe como o bacano do vídeo faz?

@mickimicki

Ай бұрын

Have a drink every time you wrote "literally". 😂

@diogorodrigues747

Ай бұрын

@@mickimicki It's the effect of being native in Portuguese, thinking in Portuguese and being tired... LOL

This is a good case study. In Canada, at least, small towns may have some population due to a particular industry but they have extreme difficulty attracting professionals like medical personal or teachers. Socially and economically, the do better in cities.

This was a pretty good video

For the people outside of Portugal 03:48, Leiria is NOT a city nor a place at all. It literally does not exist and it is a very well known portuguese inside joke, but it's gotten to a point where foreign people actually believe that "Leiria" is an actualy place or city in Portugal. It's always funny to me, but I think it can confuse people who are outside of the joke lmao. Other than that, great video!

@dickielarue1451

Ай бұрын

Is there a University there? A Castle? UNESCO-listed monastery? A football club...União de Leiria?...A stadium...Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa ? 🤡😉👌

@peko3050

Ай бұрын

@@dickielarue1451 Ahahaha yes! and there's also a mall called "LeiriaShopping" 🤭😉 ehehe

@dickielarue1451

Ай бұрын

@@peko3050 Greetings from Estoril...I remember my first visit to the Imgaginary city of Leiria...There was a festival called, Extramuralhas...People dressed in black walked along the Rio Lis...🇵🇹🤘🎸🥁🎤🤣

TIL we have a green and golden banana megaregion here in Europe lol

This 'Megalopolis' has overgrown so much in population that people that already lived in the cities want to move out to some parts of the interior

Perfect timing! I'm just checking out whether to move to Portugal. Like everyone it seems.

@oneidea1121

Ай бұрын

Why are choosing to emigrate? And if you do make sure to respect the culture and the people

@Barthijzz

Ай бұрын

@@oneidea1121 Oh definitely! I am Dutch and I live in Romania now. I love to explore cultures and to learn by talking to people. The reason to emigrate is embedded in my characater I guess. When I was three I already asked my mom to make some sandwiches for me so I could go and explore the world haha.

@oneidea1121

Ай бұрын

@@Barthijzz that’s a good mindset, best of luck to you💪🏻

@Barthijzz

Ай бұрын

@@oneidea1121 obrigado!

It is simple to Xplain people. I was born about 15 miles from the ocean in Central Portugal. Salt water runs thru Portuguese people veins like mine.

No "Portugal Caralho" comment , seems odd

@TopDrawer_Art

Ай бұрын

It's old hat at this point, c'mon.

Are you portuguese you sound like a native!

@module79l28

Ай бұрын

Yes he is.

That's interesting. Once again, geography and urbanisation trends explain a lot. P.S. I didn't know about the Green Banana of Europe. Time to update my knowledge, I guess.

ótimo vídeo!

Surprised you didn’t mention the Rio-São Paulo megalopolis in your examples. It has over 40million inhabitants

@wuiss__._

Ай бұрын

Porque este video tem foco na europa

@pedromenchik1961

Ай бұрын

Mas ele mencionou exemplos no Japão e China

@eclips_total2215

Ай бұрын

deve ser por as do japão e china serem mais famosas globalmente@@pedromenchik1961

@Rockadela_

Ай бұрын

@@pedromenchik1961preferiu não falar de macacos

Why are you shilling for Better help?

The EU needs to donate some TBM's to Portugal to make a underground railroad system for the whole country, as well as Water/Electricy/Data-telecom/Sewage systems. And Portugal needs to bring back its Golden Visa system since it was cancelled for the wrong reasons, and/or specify the Golden Visa for not being elegieble for the Coast Area between Lisbon and Porto that you talked about in this video. And the Portuguese Salaries need to 2-3x increase to be competitive with Europe and not make people move out.

What If the Europeans and some non-African countries never colonized Africa

@bazookaman1353

Ай бұрын

If that's asking for a video then I just want to tell you that would be a very intricate topic with lots of variables whose time frame would be super wide, having to go back in time by a lot and then saying how that would change things today. No KZreadr could answer that question.

@Snowman_0690

Ай бұрын

Africa will still be the same lol

@user-ep8ox5xl9h

Ай бұрын

It’s literally impossible

@brunofilipeaguiar

Ай бұрын

@@Snowman_0690no because of globalism

@PremierCCGuyMMXVI

Ай бұрын

We’d be in a better world

Blows my mind that there are only 10 million people in all of Portugal. In the US there are 330 million.

@anotherthez7598

Ай бұрын

WTF was that?? LOL

@frapiment6239

Ай бұрын

All European countries have low population compared to US. But stranger than Portugal or Ireland with 8Million its Australia with only 25!

@FilipeMiaoumiam

Ай бұрын

Dude, you can compare one country with one state only. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense

@santostv.

Ай бұрын

Man! If you want to do those shit “math” do usa population vs eu or Europe population, Usa population:331 million Eu population 448 million Europe population 746 million Imagine eu country been us states is better for your usa brain.

@santostv.

Ай бұрын

Out of 27 only 8 eu countries have more than 11 million people.

Is it possible to get ones hands on those maps somehow? 😊 Great video btw!

@General.Knowledge

Ай бұрын

I think so! I found all of them online on free access

I am from Beirut Lebanon. I love Portugal from my heart as it has similar Geographical nature and climate as Lebanon . Both countries are located in the Mediterranean region so their cultures are bit close except the language . I believe Portugal is more suitable for vacationing and tourism rather than moving to work as more efforts are needed to improve the economy and increase the value of the currency. Regarding the bureaucracy challenges i guess it is faced by many other countries not only Portugal. Finally i hope to visit Portugal someday and i wish to all the Portuguese brothers and sisters all the best

Setúbal mentioned!

@BrunoRibeiro-po2bv

Ай бұрын

@@guilhermevenancio1585 tas aqui cá do quê miga!

Betterhelp…

Completly unrelated but this guy pronunciation of all the portuguese words was spot on. Very good watch!

@General.Knowledge

Ай бұрын

Obrigado!

@3snoW_

Ай бұрын

He's portuguese haha

One additional info about the push of the population from Porto/Lisbon into the suburbs or neighboring cities: a lot of real state was turned (or is being turned) into short term rentals for vacations, like Airbnb. In some neighborhoods on both cities, more than 20% of the available real state is only available for short term stays. This makes it a lot harder to find affordable housing and puts pressure on the market, making people move away from the urbanized areas because they are not able to pay rent, but still have to be close enough due to their jobs.

A Portuguese comeback story would be great, getting its development on par with at least Spain. I've been to Portugal and it's only a little behind Spain imo and I think they can catch up. Would inspire their colonial son Brazil to develop as well!

@adriii_021

Ай бұрын

Nah it’s impossible for portugal to catch up with spain, is like saying that Austria could catch up with germany, that if we are speaking about whole country relevance, if we talk about the life conditions, I’m not an expert in portugal but spain isn’t even good so u must be really bad to aspire to be like us

@varunrajesh6516

Ай бұрын

@@adriii_021 Spain has some quite developed regions which Portugal lacks I think. The two main Portuguese towns, Lisbon and Porto, both have room to improve. I think Madrid for instance could improve too but Barcelona was spectacularly developed from my visit. The Catalonian region is a jewel overall. Took some great pictures :)

@FilipeMiaoumiam

Ай бұрын

A little behind? You don't live here and it shows. Poverty is growing fast, and although international companies come to Portugal because of the cheaper labor, the wealth distribution is pretty terrible while our social system is collapsing

@santostv.

Ай бұрын

Depends in what you mean about developing, Spain isn’t also nothing to aspired to be economic wise if you talked about Germany or the Nordics, again depends in what you mean for all the bad things our country has in some departments we are leaders or on par with eu , if you saw our country some decades ago you would think we been living in the past nowadays that not the problem, the problem here is business and government been to friendly with eachother and because our industrial base is small and controlled by a few companies and family it becomes a huge societal problem. Digitalization here is good compared to other eu countries compared to asia that another ball game, our atm system is also very advanced although been a monopoly, like same eu countries we have app payment from a app from the same company, we have high and slow bureaucracy but some people say is still better than Spain and Germany (I can’t comfirm), the people that ran our highways although we consider them robber barons they invented via verde, poor and old people have bank accounts. Most of our problems are decades old that have compounded in recent into a shitshow but like always we will survive because we are resilient.

No one talking about the fact that he pronounces the names of portuguese cities in a perfect portuguese accent

@ohdude6643

Ай бұрын

He's Portuguese

@adriii_021

Ай бұрын

I mean it would be weird if he didn’t

@bluebottlecoffeeaddict6529

Ай бұрын

Only native speakers would know anyway

@mrreziik

Ай бұрын

Ele é português, chefe

Gotta give him respect. Everything pronounced correctly. Proud.

@riclnun

Ай бұрын

He is Portuguese.

The blue banana is actually very well connected due to the Rhine River and its tributaries, multiple north south rail lines and expansive highway systems in all regions part of the BB. Companies on the lower rhine here in germany have generally more ties with dutch companies and importers than german ones from other parts of the country. The high frequented freight traffic along the rhine mainly from or to the rotterdam port to the industrial centers along the Rhine also creates a dependency on dutch cooperation and freedom of trade through the Rotterdam Port. If there was no gas from rotterdam being delivered everyday by train to my city we would be out of power fast :D

This is interesting but I like it because it's a European country not many people talk about

Please stop the better help advertisment, it’s scam

@Writer_Productions_Map

Ай бұрын

This