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Portugal’s digital nomads

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Portugal has welcomed thousands of high value, short stay workers with an attractive new visa.

They’re the so called Digital Nomads, who can live and work where they please - but the locals say they’re skewing the economy, we find out why.

Producer / presenter: Ciaran Tracey Image: Flexible working: Credit: PA

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.9

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0:11.5

If you could work anywhere in the world, if a laptop was all you needed to do your thing, where would you go?

0:18.1

Maybe Mexico City, Bali, Berlin? Well, what about a place where freshly squeezed

0:25.5

orange juice can be had for less than a euro, where the pace of life is relaxed, even in a bustling

0:30.9

European capital? The sky is a beautiful blue and the smells of grilled fish mingle with coffee

0:36.4

in a labyrinth of coloured cobbled streets.

0:40.5

Well, as places to do remote work go, the Portuguese capital of Lisbon seems hard to top.

0:47.9

A huge reason why tens of thousands of high-value, high-s, remote workers have decided to call it home.

0:56.8

Home for a little while, because these guys, they don't plan to stay.

1:02.2

They're an emerging type of mobile worker known as the digital nomads.

1:06.9

Lisbon is a great place where you can have the benefits in all that of a city, but also be

1:11.9

able to escape very quickly to more of like a beach surf kind of lifestyle.

1:16.9

For them, it's like, wherever I lay my laptop, that's my home. The only problem is, it's

1:23.1

also someone else's. The public space in Lisbon has been renewed to feed that kind of life.

1:30.2

I'm Karen Tracy and this episode of Business Daily is coming from Lisbon, where a bit of a row

1:35.5

has been brewing over the Portuguese government's enthusiasm to welcome the digital nomads in their droves.

1:42.9

Digital nomads like Ellie.

1:44.9

So we're in the neighborhood of Lapa. It's a bit more traditional where you still see

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