“People say to me, “How can you drive in Porto?\u2019” she says. “And I\u2019m like, \u2018I drove for 35 years in Los Angeles. It\u2019s not that bad.\u2019”<\/p>\n
She also finds the health care to be “astronomically” better in Portugal than the US, “not just because of the cost, but the quality of the care.” Portugal has a mainly tax-based health system with universal coverage.<\/p>\n
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\nHowever, Dreyfuss admits that getting to grips with the banking system has been “a little bit of a challenge” along with buying real estate, particularly as Portugal doesn\u2019t have a statutory seller\u2019s property disclosure statement, where sellers are required to inform buyers of issues with the property.<\/p>\n
She bought her first home in Porto in 2022, but sold the two-bedroom apartment in the Bombarda Art District after two years and went on to buy a top-floor apartment in the Marques neighborhood with a veranda on both sides, where she currently lives. Dreyfuss has since bought a second apartment, which she rents out to a friend.<\/p>\n
“Nothing is perfect. I mean, the bureaucracy here is a pain in the ass sometimes,” she says. “There\u2019s some things that are almost exactly alike. There\u2019s some things that are better. There\u2019s some things that are worse.”<\/p>\n
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However, one of the biggest benefits for her was the fact that she felt comfortable walking around alone in the evening, something that wasn\u2019t the case in San Diego; Portugal is the seventh safest country in the world, according to the Global Peace Index. “I just feel so safe here,” she says, adding that she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2373,2372,978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10119,"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studii.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}