[piva00]

I've met a few Americans living like that in Portugal, there are communities that formed in some villages away from the main cities where real estate is very cheap since most villagers had died or moved out. They were proud of not paying Portuguese taxes, I couldn't understand how you can be proud of taking advantage of a society while not contributing financially to it to support the services you enjoy.

It's hard for me to understand this mentality...

[Supernaut]

The real question is why the Portuguese government is allowing this to happen?

[hellcow]

NHR (the tax scheme that the parent is discussing) ended. If you didn't already move to Portugal under it, it's no longer available to you, so your question should really be in the past tense.

NHR 2.0 offers much reduced benefits and in a much narrower scope.