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Re:Portugal’s digital nomad bubble poised to pop on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:06AM (#34323045)
I have a Dutch neighbor who married a Turkish woman. They run a couple of successful companies, and their goal is to relocate to Rotterdam where his family is from. He wanted to incorporate a company in NL, and transfer his current business there. Because he lives abroad, despite being a Dutch citizen, he was not able to open a business bank account, so he was not able to open a company on his own. His options were to move home or get everything executed in his brother's name until he's ready to move (which he choose).

Of course, he also complains heavily about the bureaucracy here, which is equally broken but in a different way.

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