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Wednesday, December 6, 2023.

Charlie James, owner of a manufacturing company

The typical digital nomad who has flocked en masse to Lisbon in recent years.

40-year-old James, originally from Cornwall, moved to the Portuguese capital in 2019 with his French wife Margot, 41, and their children - three-year-old Marlowe and five-year-old Leon.

"We moved because of the lifestyle, the climate, the people and the proximity to the coast," says James, who is now renting while they await the completion of a deal to buy a €950,000 four-bedroom garden apartment in one of the formerly derelict but now artistic neighborhoods, Intendente.

Karl James and his son.

Since James lived in Portugal until the UK's transition period to leave the EU ended on December 31, he already has a residence permit. "But it expires in three years," he says. So James is now considering the possibility...