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of encouragement to make more videos - This is true - So what's the most popular question
we get asked on Youtube Tina - It is are we going to be moving to Portugal - Oh and are we
have we got our bags packed - They're not packed yet but I think with everything that's happening
it's just making us look at everything differently isn't it - It really is and we had an interesting
comment from somebody just recently about a friend of his that went to a retirement
planning course or retirement course, he was nearing retirement so his company
put him on a course and one of the things the instructor was telling them was don't wait to
travel when you retire use the first five years to get out there we did even more we we retired early
in our 50s and we've been traveling a lot because we didn't want ill health to prevent that,
it was fairly interesting because lots of people say to us you should move to Portugal
when we're in Portugal people ask are you emigrating here and we're saying no no
we're just escaping the Canadian winters - It was even funnier when we arrived in Lisbon airport a
very nice friendly Portuguese customs officer said hey you guys should come and live in Portugal
that was really funny and very sweet - It really is so Portugal does seem a country with open
arms to new people - Yes so it's made us kind of think openly how would we do it if we were
thinking of doing it isn't it - It is and you you might have seen us getting an R.V. trailer
that we're going to be using for summers and it suddenly dawned on us that we could
live in that trailer for 6 months of the year in summertime and there's no better place to be in
the world than Canada in the summertime Tina - Absolutely beautiful - We get 30º degrees
celsius weather - We're hotter than Portugal - And we're by a lake so it's just a perfect situation
so Tina was thinking we could live in that for six months
we've got all our wi-fi and everything it's very comfortable and then six months in Portugal -
We thought well this is good now we have also to consider the apartment that we have here
when the person who put the comment up saying do your traveling because then after say five years
you might not want to do it anymore we thought oh well if that was our case where would we live
after that so we're looking to doing the numbers keeping the apartment
aren't we - And Tina worked out the five years we've been here, in five years
has gone up 234.00 dollars a month in total over the five years - So it's not a lot is it - It's
nothing and we're thinking in another five years it might have gone up maybe another 250 to 300
dollars, if we were to come into our apartment right now it would cost us somewhere in the region
of $500 more - Than what we're paying - Than what we initially set out with so in other words it's
double what has gone up - Yeah so then if in say another five years time it could be for new people
coming in a thousand dollars more we probably nearly wouldn't be able to afford to live here
so we're thinking wow you know what this could still be a really good investment
keep the apartment even though we're just renting it so by living here for six months in the summer
keeping the apartment we still get access to all the pensions coming in - That's the whole thing is
if we live in Canada for at least six months of the year then we can still have all the pensions
and benefits we don't lose any of those - And also the health benefits - So why would we want to live
in Portugal Tina for six months - Well the first thing to me is the warmer weather and blue skies
would be my number one - The blue skies is really uplifting nice weather having the ocean nearby is
very calming very soothing lots to see and do to keep us busy in retirement - Plus I
was going to say that we actually like being in The Algarve but you know going to The Algarve
is very near if we want to hop over to Spain or hop over to anywhere else in Europe - Yeah and
the flights were cheap before the pandemic we don't know what it's going be like in the future
but it was a good good place as a hub to go and explore the rest of Europe as well and it gives
us our fix of being in Europe we grew up in Europe so it makes a lot of sense - Plus it's
exciting sort of visiting new places isn't it and every time we visit we seem to even if we go
to the same place we view it differently look at it, go to different stores and restaurants - And
we have lots of photography projects to do while we're there as well which is really nice to do -
And it's nice to be in a different place somewhere you could call your home from home we
would have home here and over there - And that's what we're really trying to find and so our ideal
thing would be to rent the same apartment every year and set up a household there with possessions
and then when we leave we'd put them into storage - So it would feel like home for somebody who owns
a place and they only want to go in the summer we would be the perfect answer to them because
we could rent it in the winter - So we we're doing research on that to try and find opportunities for
maybe five or six months continuous rent so that's kind of what we're looking at,
as we say this pandemic is it is changing the way we look at things and we're also aware
that time isn't on our side so we might as well just get ahead and do things - And
enjoy it - We've enjoyed our time in Portugal and we are considering being semi-resident
there - Which will be great - So if you have any suggestions leave them in the comments below,
any ideas we're always looking for good ideas and if you have experience of doing this
we'd be keen to hear from you, anyway thanks for watching we hope you're all staying safe
staying well - Have a great weekend and we'll see you again - We will bye bye - bye