Welcome to Porto!

Glad to see a Porto Group get started.  My Wife and I will be visiting Portugal in September from North Carolina.  We will be visiting Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto in hopes of finding a City we would like to retire to.....

Porto looks amazing. You must be thrilled to be in Portugal.

My wife and I are in our early 60's. We plan on retiring from the American rat-race in the next couple of years and moving from Portland, Oregon to Portugal, to enjoy life, community and culture, and, to devote ourselves to our respective arts  -- she is a tapestry artist, I am a musician (composer/performer).

At the moment, we are focusing on the Porto area - particularly Vila Nova de Gaia. We plan top visit next year and spend a month traveling around and exploring, before we decide on a final location to settle in.

We're excited about starting a new chapter in our lives - and, very much looking forward to connecting with expats and integrating into the local community.

@longhorn lady/Paula, thank you for sharing your experiences in Porto! My husband and I are really interested in moving to Porto, based only on our research so far, and will be visiting in September for a few weeks.

Would you mind sharing your thoughts about Bonfim? We appreciate all of the good things we've read about it, such as it being a good balance of quiet residential and lively and that it's in close walking distance to everything (including to the metro when "everything" is a little too far)--are there any downsides?

Lastly, based on your own home-shopping, was it easy to find a place to rent that would accept cats? We'll be bringing our three cats with us, and although someone on the forum told us that more than four isn't allowed in flats, we haven't yet been advised how challenging it might be to find a place that will accept our three.

Thank you!