Living & Working in Portugal

• Paperback - December, 2002 - How To Books
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• By: Sue Tyson-Ward
• ISBN: 185703838X

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Not what I was looking for

Perhaps this book is more for a student's gap year abroad, not for the older person who is thinking of buying property and working in another country. To tell the truth, I found this book wastes lots of pages stating the obvious and patronising the reader. I have found a more adult book with more useful information in Harvey Holtom, Working and Living: Portugal. I would recommend this one instead.

Better on the web

This is my experience. I have been living and working in Portugal. Before leaving the UK I bought this book for guidance but did not get much.

It contains a lot of trivial info like you must remember to take light clothes if you go in summer! It manages to fill its 264 pages, excluding the index, most of them with irrelevant info.

It also has an attitude, it talks down to you all the time. It is amazing that such a superior book has so little to offer!

Eventually I turned to the web and got more useful info than in the book. And for free!

Once in Portugal I also found out that many of the addresses in the book are wrong or are for something quite different to what is listed in the book.

In short, too much of an attitude and not enough of what you really need to know!

Rather weak

This is the first book I came across on the subject, and bought, but disappointment lead me to search further and then I found two good alternatives. This book has several problems. Some pages are simply filled with useless information, referenced addresses do not appear to have been researched and most are useless or do not exist at all. On top of all this, you feel bitter because you get very little for what you have paid and you end up by not trusting anything in the book. With Holtom's Working and living: Portugal and another one, Live and work in Spain and Portugal, by Pybus and White, you get better value for money.

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