Cascais

✅ Nice beach

✅ Everything mostly functions

✅ People are nice

✅ Great clean air with a breeze

✅ Great restaurants

✅ English is widely spoken

✅ City is clean and well maintained

✅ Pretty safe

✅ Fast internet

✅ Lots of fun stuff to do

✅ Good air quality on average

✅ Many Nomads.com members have been

✅ Spacious and not crowded

✅ Very easy to make friends

✅ Very easy to do business

✅ High quality of education

✅ Roads are very safe

✅ Great freedom of speech

✅ Democratic

✅ Everyone speaks English

✅ Very safe for women

✅ Family friendly

✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+

✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)

❌ Full of boomers

❌ Cafes are lower quality than in Lisbon

❌ Limited dining/bar options in cold season

❌ Extremely expensive housing

❌ Hard to find decent quality housing

❌ Gets cold in the winter

❌ Very damp now

❌ Hospitals are bad

❌ Many people smoke tobacco

❌ High alcohol consumption