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Katerina Fernandez-Martins grew up in Castello, Bronco, a small city in Portugal about two hours from Lisbon.

A place where nothing happens, like the place that I really wanted to escape when I was growing up.

Back then, in the 1990s, it was the kind of place where the site of a foreigner was unusual enough to merit an article in the local newspaper.

But this one sleepy city has become a destination for expats.

The other day when I went to the groceries and someone told me,

yes, we just moved from Brooklyn, I was like, what?

Brooklyn, like my dream place, Brooklyn, what are you telling me?

Why didn't you live Brooklyn?

It's still sufferable in there now.

I was like, what?

Katerina is a freelance reporter and she has been following this extraordinary influx of foreigners to Portugal.

An influx that has sped up during the pandemic as more workers and companies decide you really can work from anywhere.

So why not work from Portugal?

With the sun and the beaches and a cheaper living.

I'm a salt.

Yeah, I'm salt too.

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