I'm not exactly a digital nomad. However, I have lived and worked in many countries. I moved to Portugal in July last year. I moved out at the end of April this year. Thank you, but no thank you.

The way the locals responded to me because I spoke English was unpleasant. I didn't insist that Portugal people speak English. I merely asked if they did. If they didn't, I was quite happy to move on and find someone else. it's easy enough to find someone who does.

What I did find when I mentioned that I was having a lot of obstacles put in my way by government officials, and that I found many of the locals obstructive in small ways, was the insistence that it was because English people refused to learn to speak Portuguese.

What a stupid and provincial point of view.

Coming from a country where there are 11 official languages, and where one was either bilingual or trilingual by the time one left school, I find this resistance to speaking to someone in another language strange.