Viver em Lisboa Está Impossível. Fiz as Contas e Tive que Sair…

We need to talk about something, it is completely impossible to live in Lisbon . I lived there for 5 years, but I decided to leave. I had a good salary, I earned almost € 2,000 net per month , which is very good in Portugal, but even so, I couldn't even have my own

space. So I keep thinking, if even I with a good salary couldn't live in Lisbon, how do other people manage who earn, for example, € 1,000 per month? I am going to show you how much I spent per month when I lived in Lisbon. And more importantly, how much I am able to

save every month by having left there and now with a much better lifestyle. And first of all, I want you to look at this list, more precisely at the 116%. Do you know what that means? It's simple. In Lisbon, a house costs more than the average salary of those who live in the city. It's just that we

aren't even talking about the mortgage payment being a large slice of the Portuguese salary anymore. No. We are already at the point where it is completely impossible for most people to own a home. But I don't even fully agree with this European Council study because they calculated these figures taking into account the average salary

of € 10,000. And this is a completely inflated figure by people who receive large salaries. It is much more interesting for us to look at the salary that most Portuguese people receive, and it's not € 1,000 anymore . But rather € 1,150 net, which was the median salary in Portugal in 2025. Note that these are official figures

from Edu Stat. And if we were to calculate the housing effort rate with the median salary, I can tell you that this figure would be much higher than 116%. So, what is the reality for a young person who goes to Lisbon looking for a better life? It's fine that at the start, to begin your career, I