The process for getting residency in Portugal is: you do a bunch of prep work, you apply for your visa, you come to Portugal, you go to your SEF appointment, you wait, you get your Residence Card. That card means you can come and go at will. It means you can sign up for the…
Author: Brady Wetherington
Toenails, Coffee, and Taco Bell
Once you cut your toenails in a new country, you actually feel like you live there. When I finished there was a strange shift in my feeling – this is home. This is normal. We were kinda “frenetic” at the start – every time we wake up, we’d ask: where are we going, what are…
Accessing American Streaming Media
tl;dr – I bought this router and set up Unlocator.com on it. It sits behind my ‘regular’ network. I use the regular network for work, but the ‘media network’ for the apple TV, and the various homepods. If Alison wants to watch American TV on her iPad, she needs to flip over to the ‘media…
Telecoms Woes Redux Redux?!
As I mentioned before, I hooked myself up to Mint Mobile from here in Portugal and it went fine – it actually went quite well! But hooking up Alison’s phone has been an absolute disaster – up until now. I JUST GOT IT WORKING! This is going to be an in-the-weeds post about the specifics…
Telecoms Redux
I wrote about my plan for how to do what we needed to do for phones and watches and everything already. But now it’s come time to actually do it. Hasn’t quite gone to plan. I started from a worldview where I figured all phones and everything all use the same chipsets at this point….
Portuguese ATM Exchange Rates – Just Say NO
When given a prompt about whether you want to ‘protect your exchange rate’ or some shit, say ‘NO’. You might get a scary looking “Are you sure?!?!?!” prompt – double-down, hit NO. There. That’s the entire post. (JK, lemme explain below) So my understanding of that weird prompt you get on Portuguese ATM’s is that…
Telecom and Mobile Number Porting from the US to Portugal
First things first. The 5G infrastructure in most of Portugal is great. The fiber service you can get in Lisbon is awesome. And everything, relative to us estadunidenses (Americans), is dirt cheap. So one of the first things we will do when we get there is sign up with a Portuguese cell phone provider. We’ve…
More Car Woes
So as I mentioned in my previous post: How To Move A Car to Portugal – it’s generally not a good idea. However, there was another “brilliant” idea I had about how to deal with it that seems to have also been a very bad idea. So let me share that with you so you…
Our first “regular” day in Lisbon
This is something I keep looking forward to. Right now there’s lots of stress, lots of waiting, lots of forms to fill out, and lots of expense. It’s all….awful. So the main thing I keep trying to look forward to is: what’s our first low-stress day going to look like? I’m imagining this will be,…
How To Move A Car to Portugal
Answer: Don’t. Really? YES, REALLY. Well, when should you actually move a car to Portugal? You shouldn’t. At some point, someone might want to – Okay. Fine. Zeroth – when should you actually do this? I think there are really only two good answers: Money First things first. Pay off your car the moment you…