I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break.
beginning to wonder whether we’re doing more harm than good
They didn’t move to Lisbon to do any good in first place…
Ignore ‘sun’, ‘lifestyle’ the ‘-’ and ‘and’
for the the tax break? 😉
Can you blame them? Doesn’t that constitute success?
Edit: obviously some major hypocrites in this thread )
They can stay until they decide it doesn’t benefit them anymore. But it was never about doing more good than harm (unless it is to themselves).
They probably didn’t move there with the intention of doing good to anyone but themselves. So I think this “doing more harm than good" really is just a turn of phrase meaning they realised they did harm and not necessarily a sign of hypocrisy.
‘There’s an arrogance to the way they move around the city’: is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
Well, I’m reading this in the US edition of The Guardian, so if you honestly want to ask an American rather than just get an article out of it, I don’t care whether you live in Lisbon or not.
If you want to ask people who live in Lisbon, probably have more luck with a Lisbon-oriented publication.
EDIT: For completeness, if you want to digital nomad in the US, I don’t care about that. Knock yourself out, if it makes you happy.
So, whole towns, maybe countries are being gentrified now? And these towns, countries might have done that deliberately? Mad?
Sounds like it, we just have to ignore the basis of our fucking capitalist/nationalist system. You need to attract capital to survive, and when you do, it fucks you over. And it can do it easily, cause it can just say screw you, if you don’t play ball, I go to another nation state.
And then people are being told to get angry at the foreigners, the internationalists, the Jews, the gays, until of course bad things are starting to happen. And we’ve been played by this cycle for centuries by now. It’s been analysed, talked about, a little bit fought about, things got a little better after some world wars, and now we’re at the end of a cycle again, and everybody’s shocked. SHOCKED.
And I’m bloody sick of it.
