For me, the idea solidified sometime around 2000. Portugal looked beautiful and like a place I could navigate as a single woman when I retired. Fast forward, I married Marty, a Dutchie, in 2010 and we began exploring a move to the Netherlands. The more we tried to make it work the less viable that move became. It really felt like the Dutch just didn’t w…
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