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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also from Portugal and did you really just say that the problem with immigration is that they get exploited and then everyone ELSE suffers?

I mean i think you see what’s wrong with that.

Also without immigrants Portugal would be completely fucked because all the young people are leaving the country for better jobs in Europe. Someone needs to pick up the slack otherwise it’s just old people and a couple of children.

Also Portugal has a ton of houses. We are above average in houses per capita iirc. We have a problem with salaries and an over dependence on tourism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He's just someone trying to provide a false narrative to justify his racism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Portugal has massive house price inflation problems in the places were the jobs are: all it takes is to look at the house price to incomes ratio in Portugal now and compare it with the historical average (last I checked it was 5x its historical average).

Sure, there are actually empty villages in the deep inland countryside were the only work is "subsistence farming" or "forrestry", for the simple reason that even being a cashier at a supermarket pays better so nobody is going to move there to do that work.

Looking at housing as "all houses everywhere have the same utility value" to be able to come up with that "there is no housing problem in Portugal" bollocks is beyond ridiculous.

That said, blaming immigrants is pure, unadulterated far-right nutter fantasism: the idea that the people with the least power in the country (who can't even vote) are to blame for this is logic-defying, to say the least.