Author: Pat The Expat

Friends and family are what expats miss the most from wherever “back home” is located. Quite naturally, the whole family didn’t relocate to the southern coast of Portugal and neither

After many of my readers got what they don’t like about Portugal off their chests and have now resigned themselves to living out their retirement years self isolated in a

Recently on one of those chatty social media sites (you know the ones where different potential expats, and some already here, ask the same questions over and over again and

I don’t feel triumphant or vindicated about moving to Portugal. With much of the globe feeling very uneasy about a dangerous and deadly pandemic and the all-too-real problems of worldwide

Now that some of the restrictions that were imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic are being relaxed, many people are talking about returning to something vaguely called “a new normal”.

Remember the glory days of Brexit? How about when the hope for impeachment was the only thing you heard on the news? Those were fun days. Strangely, the main characters

Algarve Resident columnist Pat the Expat shares his experience as a US citizen becoming a legal resident of Portugal  If you’re reading an outstanding English-language publication like the Algarve Resident,

If you are a resident reading the Algarve Resident, then you’re well aware of the fact that we live in one of the most desirable vacation destinations in the whole

As a self-declared expat, I’m very interested in the expat experience. Whether you prefer the term or not, which is sometimes misunderstood and even considered negative, most people refer to

Ever since the good old Algarve Resident celebrated its 30th anniversary, ol’Pat became curious about expats who have been around on the southern coast of Portugal for at least that