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Thank you for posting this. It sounds like a great country to retire to.

@NomadElite

3 жыл бұрын

It really is!

Great video! Do you have a blog with this info ?

@NomadElite

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have a blog at this moment in time.

any number on cost of living in Porto ?

@NomadElite

3 жыл бұрын

Let me see if I can shoot a video about it. It's a bit cheaper than Lisbon but not a ton.

how's covid situation there now?

@NomadElite

3 жыл бұрын

Hi JB. A bit tighter again, how about where you're at?

3:53 yes healthcare is affordable for a foreign, not for the natives, but good luck if you need to be operated and have to wait 1/3 years for it, hope not.

@thinkgrowhealthy2137

3 жыл бұрын

😥

@UbuTube

2 жыл бұрын

Both my father and my son went through several surgeries (five - including one in the skull, one on the hip bone, an hernia, prostate, and a very small surgery on the eye), all done for free by the public healthcare system. None took more than a few months wait (some took only weeks, and the skull one was done after a few days wait). That doesn't mean that in some cases it may take longer, but in our case they all happened very fast. You can't simply cherry-pick the cases at the worst end of the spectrum and paint them as if they were the average situation.

@thinkgrowhealthy2137

2 жыл бұрын

@@UbuTube Are you originally Portuguese? Have you paid the local hospitals insurance? I would think you need to contribute before using the benefits.

@UbuTube

2 жыл бұрын

@@thinkgrowhealthy2137 Me and my family are all born and bred in Portugal (I was actually born in Mozambique, but it was "Portugal" at the time). I'm just saying that this idea that surgeries always take years to happen is simply not true (at least it wasn't pre-pandemic). Also, sometimes people need to be "creative" in order to get what they want. When my son was around one y/o he had a serious problem with a hernia in that membrane that keeps the intestines in place. We lived near Setúbal, we went to a surgery consultation at the local (public) hospital and it became apparent he would have to wait for ages to get the surgery (the surgeon was getting retired and the new one hadn't even been appointed yet). Next time a bulge appeared on his belly, we drove all the way to Lisbon (Estefânia hospital) instead of Setúbal. He had an emergency consultation there and they said "he needs surgery". We explained Setúbal was about to have no paediatric surgeon and they just scheduled a surgery within a few weeks, after mumbling something like "he should not be our case...". With my father's hip surgery (which happened very fast) we also investigated a bit and found out that the Public Health Service at the time had an agreement with a private hospital (Hospital da Cuz Vermelha) and we pushed the right buttons for my father to be admitted there. Very few people knew that option existed. You need to be proactive. All operations were for free, as far as I can remember, as children and seniors are exempted from even the small fees that the public system usually charges.

@luismarques9280

2 жыл бұрын

Not true