The "it was cheap before" break my heart because attracting foreigners actually created a bigger gap in the economy between native Portuguese and everyone else. I am a foreigner myself, and having an in-law portuguese family and being in the rural area of Portugal, I get to see a lot of people work very hard for little, and as the prices rise, their wage doesn't.
We definitively can't blame foreigners, because they are doing nothing wrong other than using their money, the issue is that the government has enticed people to come because the country needs it, but they somewhat forgot (or dismissed) the economical impact on native portuguese.
The "it was cheap before" break my heart because attracting foreigners actually created a bigger gap in the economy between native Portuguese and everyone else. I am a foreigner myself, and having an in-law portuguese family and being in the rural area of Portugal, I get to see a lot of people work very hard for little, and as the prices rise, their wage doesn't.
That's terrible, and it's a huge question for the Portuguese government. But it's definitely not foreigners' fault.
We definitively can't blame foreigners, because they are doing nothing wrong other than using their money, the issue is that the government has enticed people to come because the country needs it, but they somewhat forgot (or dismissed) the economical impact on native portuguese.