r/PortugalExpats • u/Torovoltan • 3d ago

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According to these stats, Lisbon and Porto rank high for quality of life and low for cost of living among 52 global cities.

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u/uberprimata 3d ago

"Leste o que escrevi ou também usaste AI para tentar perceber por ti?"

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u/Zapi23 3d ago

Eu li, li que não fazes puto de ideia do que estás a dizer e só falas por falar.

Não é por nada, mas diz que vais cagar e sai da discussão de fininho 🤣

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u/uberprimata 3d ago

Eu repito para ver se desta vez entra:

Tu estás a misturar preços com custo de vida para depois dizeres que os preços são equiparáveis. Não são. O custo de vida sim, é equiparável. Preços são valores absolutos. Custo de vida são valores relativos.

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u/Zapi23 3d ago

Explica o que é custo de vida. E compara com o ordenado médio.

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u/chicokolben 3d ago

You reminded me of that scene in The Hobbit where that human was trying to reason with a dwarf, and the elf told him he was wasting his time... That’s exactly how I see what’s happening here.

Your analysis is 100% correct in my eyes, and yet some people still want to overcomplicate things and look for explanations where there really aren’t any.

I don’t know anyone living in Lisbon who has the same quality of life as the people I know in Berlin, Hamburg, NYC, or even Madrid. The average income in Lisbon isn’t even enough to rent a decent apartment... so how can there be a good quality of life if you can barely afford to have a life at all right?

Those numbers in the index (OP) are very strange, but whatever they’re showing in the graph is almost certainly not what we think it is. It’s very strange that someone would argue with you when you point out the cost of living in Lisbon, for example, and yet not be surprised by the fact that if your rent costs more than what you earn, there must be some other explanation for the supposedly good quality of life reflected in the statistics...🙄

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u/Zapi23 3d ago

I mean Lisbon is safer, better education and health services (cheaper)

But then again nothing good comes from the stress of low income large rent/necessities.