Life in Portugal. Advantages and disadvantages.

Portugal is a European country, but with all this there are its own special laws and preferences. You can easily highlight the positive and negative aspects of living here.

We discussed this topic in our Portuguese forum , if you would be interested to read the opinions on this issue of our members of the forum, read this topic .

So, if we talk about the advantages of Portugal, then first of all it should be highlighted:

• People are socially protected. Each is given a job in their specialty, if necessary, you can undergo training for a specific qualification. At the same time, the state pays not only for the course of study, but also pays cash assistance to students.
• In each city, there are organizations for the protection of low-income citizens, where they feed every day, once a week they are given food, and once a month they are provided with clothes.

• Medical care is completely free for pregnant women, children under 16 years of age, working citizens and pensioners.
• In each city there are organizations supporting immigrants, where you can get any information on the topic of living in the country. Here they will help you figure out and solve any problem of a legislative nature, tell you how to act in a given situation. And most importantly, Russian-speaking institutions work in such institutions, which is very useful to those who are in Portugal recently.
• There are many Portuguese language schools in the country. Such schools are free and most of them pay tuition fees. True, this is in the aisles of 100/150 euros, but still not bad.
• There is a good opportunity to build your business project. Portugal has a positive attitude towards entrepreneurs and contributes to the development of business in every possible way. For example, the first year they do not take taxes from such citizens.

More about the advantages of living in Portugal, we wrote in this article .

Portugal is a young country in terms of development and in this regard, there are drawbacks that affect people's lives. Cons of Portugal:

• Inadequate level of development of medicine. There are very few really qualified and experienced doctors, although the production of various drugs is very high. Portuguese products are of high quality and effective in use.
• The level of the school curriculum is much lower than in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Children receive much less knowledge, although there are schools with a more in-depth program, but they are usually paid.
• Portuguese language is quite difficult to learn, it is not given to everyone.