A Portuguese island created a village for remote workers, promising community to the newcomers and prosperity to the locals—then delivered on neither.
When I brought this up with Pessegueiro, she paused and chose her words carefully. “This place is ready to receive visitors and new residents,” she said. “I want them to feel like they’re coming to a place where there are people living already, and to live well with them. I don’t want the people who are from here to feel excluded in any way.”
Madeira also has the highest density of social housing in Portugal, double the national average. Five thousand families are on the waiting list for housing support, and the regional government’s response has been to announce the construction of housing units that are even more affordable. Edgar Silva, an opposition politician in Funchal, has publicly lamented how the city’s working-class heart is being gutted.
In the past year, Lisbon has earned the dubious distinction of being ranked the third most financially unliveable city in the world.
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