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A view with some truth, but also a bit fantasized, with a lot of creative writing mixed in. The one about the dog peeing inside the store is hilarious... There is gentrification in that city, as there is in other European cities. I'd like to ask Alex what she thinks about gentrification in London neighborhoods like Kensington, Mayfair, Marylebone, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea, Hampstead, ... where the rich have expelled middle-class English people. And where London's green parks have become a picnic spot for wealthy Arabs with their multiple wives and many children studying at elite English schools, and where Alex's children probably can't study...

Yes, there's an expatriate economy in Lisbon, but Alex only uses it if she wants to. She only goes to events promoted by expats if she chooses to. By the way, does she seek to meet other locals, attend other events not aimed at expats? Alex lives in Lapa, a neighborhood in Lisbon, always inhabited by the upper class, embassies, and wealthy Portuguese families. Does she, by any chance, know the history of that neighborhood, that it has always been like that since before she was born?

Yes, there's a tax policy to bring back qualified Portuguese people who emigrated to other countries. There's no other way to do it. Is it a correct policy and does it make perfect sense? Is it unfair to those who didn't leave? Yes, but what is life, if not a world of injustices ?

These Guardian articles, which only serve for these "full-bellied" expats to shed crocodile tears, for those who only see the reality they want to see, like horses with blinkers on their eyes, to see anything else, but their "true"...