It’s also worth adding that in addition to the portuguese exodus we are also “importing” lots of digital nomads who earn much higher wages and contribute to the housing crisis, along with lots of low skilled workers from other countries to work the jobs the portuguese left when they were unable to afford rents. These workers live in horrible conditions sometimes splitting a single room between several people. When their support networks fail they are forced to turn to crime which has increased greatly in Portugal.
I was always very pro-immigration but that is changing. I’m seeing everyone I grew up with leave. Their place being taken either by rich foreigners who treat you like you’re a servant or desperate very poor ones who would run you over for half a job.
Meanwhile, you barely hear our language in our own capital. And it’s visibly spreading to the other cities. It’s scary. This is colonization with extra steps.