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Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal by darth_avocado on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:23PM (#32685528)
Gentrification is an overblown concern. No one has the right to live in a specific area. Migration is human tendency. Just like poor people have a right to move from a rural area to a city in search of better employment opportunities, people with money have right to move to cheaper locations to get a better bang for their buck.
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Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal by Bakary on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:52PM (#32685690)
There's nothing overblown about being forced out of a neighborhood you've lived in all of your life. Now the problem is reaching epic proportions all over the world.

I also do not understand how the second sentence and the last aren't a direct contradiction of each other.

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Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal by ajvs on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:17PM (#32685850)
The bigger complaint looks like it's about buying houses as investment vehicles, often leaving them empty, rather than using them as housing.
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Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal by inawarminister on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:53PM (#32685699)
Not so when it involves crossing country lines.

A country should focus on its citizens first, foreigners second.

Then again EU is an unique experiment as it is.

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