This is a disturbing trend worldwide! I have been fortunate enough to become a digital nomad since long before remote work was such a commonplace thing around the world. I even made quite a nice chunk of change, teaching others how to do the same themselves. The thing that I find the most maddening — nay, sickening — is that people see what is happening in Portugal and are all too happy to let it happen where they live. 😳 I've been living in South America since the pandemic, and most of this continent hasn't felt the dangers of an enormous and unchecked nomad population, but that isn't stopping them from foolishly trying to follow suit with laws and visas considerably more liberal than Portugal. Take Ecuador, for instance, where any foreigner with money is perfectly free to buy land. Hmmm... Third-world salaries and permitting a giant influx of nomads to come in and buy their land. How could that go wrong? 😂 At least when Portugal finally figures out the error of its ways, rents will recede, and things will return to some form of normalcy. I worry about what will happen in more greedy and less forward-thinking societies like the one I find myself living in now. Natives from touristy areas will have no choice but to rent from their new foreign masters or leave. This has already occurred throughout several parts of Colombia (Medellin mainly). Still, these people are more than willing to let the world completely fleece them until they literally have nothing left. Indeed a sad state of affairs!