awesome posts sir, please keep them coming
Emigrating To Portugal.
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Awesome pics @Johnny2Puffs
We also have these xmas lights all over South Africa, we just don't have electricity to make them shine.....
We also have these xmas lights all over South Africa, we just don't have electricity to make them shine.....
No, you have not yet seen the pics of the city center. Mine did not come out too good with my new cellphone but will try this weekend. Seems the people here only go out at 10pm according to my daughters that came home at 3am.
What you say there about the Christmas lights and people being out late, reminds of something i read years ago...a South African family that moved to Medellin, Colombia. Awesome Christmas lights in the central city park, families and groups of friends there from early evening to late, picnics and so on a lot of drinking but he said he never saw any serious aggro and so on.
i wish i could find the blog again - if it still exists, it was about 7-8 years ago.
i wish i could find the blog again - if it still exists, it was about 7-8 years ago.
Boxing day.
Cellphone pic so not too clear. Taken on boxing day.
Same night.
Wow, those are lovely and amazing photos - thanks for sharing @Johnny2Puffs
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gorgeous pics, thanks a bunch
I must actually change my Profile Picture as i am blonde. This is the first thing locals see here and immediately know you are not local.
I have blue eyes and this is very uncommon here. All Portuguese have dark brown eyes and all men have black hair.
Here in the north of Portugal, it was controlled by the Celtics for many years and therefore different from the south where Arabic and other African influences from colonisations and inter racial copulation over centuries have caused darker skin colour.
I have blue eyes and this is very uncommon here. All Portuguese have dark brown eyes and all men have black hair.
Here in the north of Portugal, it was controlled by the Celtics for many years and therefore different from the south where Arabic and other African influences from colonisations and inter racial copulation over centuries have caused darker skin colour.
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Love your posts @Johnny2Puffs
Been meaning to ask, what are you vaping on these days and what juices are you vaping?
Have you had to ship them from lisbon or are you importing them from elsewhere in Europe?
Does your town have good vaping supplies?
Been meaning to ask, what are you vaping on these days and what juices are you vaping?
Have you had to ship them from lisbon or are you importing them from elsewhere in Europe?
Does your town have good vaping supplies?
Man! I wish I could move to my home land 
I used to get my fix from TotallyWicked UK but the import tax and VAT at 23% made it too expensive. A 30ml bottle cost around R190.00.
Now I import from Ego2Store in Poland at half the price and no import duty or tax paid here. Works out to about R40.00 a 30ml bottle if I self mix.
There are 3 e-cig shops here in town but very expensive. Don't know how they survive as in the past 6 months, I have only seen 2 people vaping.
Now I import from Ego2Store in Poland at half the price and no import duty or tax paid here. Works out to about R40.00 a 30ml bottle if I self mix.
There are 3 e-cig shops here in town but very expensive. Don't know how they survive as in the past 6 months, I have only seen 2 people vaping.
Been away for awhile so will post some financial stuff first before I get into the misconceptions some posters have in emigration matters.
I have just been accepted into the "Non Habitual Residency" Tax Regime in Portugal. That means I have a 10 year tax free holiday here. In short, if your income is from outside of Portugal then you pay no tax. If your income is from within Portugal, you will pay a 20% flat rate.
My income is from SA and my tax record is still open with SARS and will have to submit returns for this season but once I have sent off my "International Certificate of Residency" to SARS, the Double Tax Agreement comes into effect and my file with SARS will be closed.
I have just been accepted into the "Non Habitual Residency" Tax Regime in Portugal. That means I have a 10 year tax free holiday here. In short, if your income is from outside of Portugal then you pay no tax. If your income is from within Portugal, you will pay a 20% flat rate.
My income is from SA and my tax record is still open with SARS and will have to submit returns for this season but once I have sent off my "International Certificate of Residency" to SARS, the Double Tax Agreement comes into effect and my file with SARS will be closed.
My wife as a non EU citizen can travel with me to any EU state without a visa with just her Portugal residency card. This was previously denied by the UK as it is not in the Schengen area.
A court case last year overruled this as the UK has to follow the EU Directive of 2008. Reluctantly, the UK changed their rules and from April this year, my non EU wife can now visit our kids in the UK with only her PT residency card.
The plot thickens with UK nationals married to non EU spouses trying to enter the UK. I will get into this later as it is beer time now.
This might be boring for some but I will update my life here in PT after clearing the misconceptions.
A court case last year overruled this as the UK has to follow the EU Directive of 2008. Reluctantly, the UK changed their rules and from April this year, my non EU wife can now visit our kids in the UK with only her PT residency card.
The plot thickens with UK nationals married to non EU spouses trying to enter the UK. I will get into this later as it is beer time now.
This might be boring for some but I will update my life here in PT after clearing the misconceptions.
Awesome thanks, good to hear stories from the other side of the fence
Emigration to the UK from outside the EU is impossible unless you have £1m to invest and have at least a Tier2 qualification. Even if 1 of the married couple has a Brit citizenship, it will be impossible.
A case in point:
A British housewife married to an Argentinian Doctor arrived in London from Argentina with the intent to stay. She as a Brit had to sponsor her husband but as she was a housewife, she had no funds to do so. He as a doctor with money did not matter so he was deported back to Argentina.
Their only option was this;
You may be able to apply for an EEA family permit as a family member of a British citizen who has worked in another EEA country.
This is known as the ‘Surinder Singh’ route.
You must also be able to show that the British citizen genuinely lived (based their ‘centre of life’) in the EEA country in which
you were both resident for at least 3 months before returning to the UK.
So the best way is to emigrate to an EU country such as Ireland first and then enter the UK using the EU Treaty "freedom of movement" treaty rules. This bypasses UK immigration rules.
A case in point:
A British housewife married to an Argentinian Doctor arrived in London from Argentina with the intent to stay. She as a Brit had to sponsor her husband but as she was a housewife, she had no funds to do so. He as a doctor with money did not matter so he was deported back to Argentina.
Their only option was this;
You may be able to apply for an EEA family permit as a family member of a British citizen who has worked in another EEA country.
This is known as the ‘Surinder Singh’ route.
You must also be able to show that the British citizen genuinely lived (based their ‘centre of life’) in the EEA country in which
you were both resident for at least 3 months before returning to the UK.
So the best way is to emigrate to an EU country such as Ireland first and then enter the UK using the EU Treaty "freedom of movement" treaty rules. This bypasses UK immigration rules.
I agree @Johnny2Puffs - Ireland currently only requires 500,000 Euros business investment, there are other cheaper routes but a lot of red tape.
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