Thread by @levelsio

🌉 Lisbon is now
- the most visited city on nomadlist.com (>2x more than Bali)
- the most active channel on Nomad List chat
- #2 in nomads visiting based on trip logs

I think Lisbon (and much of Portugal) works because it's:
- mild California-like climate, not too cold, not too hot
- affordable relative to most of EU
- walkable (unlike much of SE Asia / world)
- friendly people
- lot of intl people already, easy to make friends
- tax benefits

- vibrant nomad / remote worker scene so nice feedback loop
- foreign land and real estate ownership (unlike SE Asia)
- foreigners have solid legal protections (unlike SE Asia)
- not much corruption (unlike SE Asia)

I will admit walkability, clean air, legal rights become increasingly important for me when I get older. Simply because if you stay in a place longer you really need those

Oh and low crime. Hearing about the robberies and burglaries in Canggu in Bali now, it makes me and many others completely disregard it as a place to settle long term unless that changes for ex

Not many places that match on this many filters. Except for Lisbon, it's Porto, Valencia, Seville and the Canary Islands