We love Portugal ❤️

But we also experience many crazy and frustrating things we’ve never experienced anywhere else in the world. Experiences that just make you pull your hair out, or laugh in how completely absurd and Kafka-esque basic service interactions can be in Portugal, with businesses, government services, or even just restaurants.

When we complain, the usual response from Portuguese online is “if you don’t like it, leave”. But that doesn’t seem to be a very problem-solving approach. This board is a way to collect our stories to show there’s a distinct pattern of bad service interactions in this country, which is unlike the rest of the world. Hopefully by collecting these stories, Portugal can use them as feedback and improve for both foreigners, and Portuguese people.

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

POSTS ARE FULLY ANONYMOUS AND YOUR EMAIL AND USERNAME ARE NOT SHARED EVER

Update: ~~We will submit the top stories and problems to Portuguese members of parliament soon and get all of you heard!~~

We have analyzed all 300+ posts on here and made our recommendations to fix Portugal here

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