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Context: I lived in Lisbon four years and know one of the founders of Unbabel. I do not know you, neither your story. Regarding your comments: > That's one th
by ergodic 12y ago
Context: I lived in Lisbon four years and know one of the founders of Unbabel. I do not know you, neither your story.
Regarding your comments:
> That's one thing I really hated about Portugal, they just don't offer any information in English
>Thanks, but from the experience I had with both my employer and my landlord in Portugal I'd rather not do business with any Portuguese people ever again. Sorry.
>it does seem like fucking people over is business as usual in Portugal
>Have you had any experience with the Portuguese state or legal system? I'd probably still be standing in a queue somewhere.
Blaming the whole country for a 90 day experience does not seem very proportional to me.
Again, I do not know your story and can not speak for the veracity of your facts. What I do know is Lisbon (and I have lived many years in Spain and Germany to compare with). From that I know that you are just being, at best, exaggerated and I wonder if you have been exaggerating other stuff too.
- paulojreis 12y agoYet, as a portuguese, it's hard to dismiss his claims. The queues and slow state services, the "fucking people over" (mainly in employer-employee and vendor-customer relationships), the lack of information in english (unless you consider the restaurant menus as sufficient)... well, you run into this every-fuckin-day. He may be escalating his issues, but - again, as a portuguese - I don't think he got the wrong idea about the sad state of affairs here.