OURIQUE - Can foreigners live in the middle of the Alentejo region? House for sale!

[@belindamay3760]

I moved to Portugal 16 years ago and bought a house in a village 10 minutes drive to Ourique and I love this little town. You have everything you need for day to day life and shopping. The people are so kind and will go out of their way to help in any way they can. In my opinion Ourique is a lovely, charming and historic little town with lots of lovely interesting people and the expat community is thriving too. Thank you Nick for coming to our little town and seeing for yourself how great it is. xx

[@AlgarveAddicts]

Hi Belinda, thank you so much for your kind words and I'm so happy you enjoy the lifestyle out there. I found Ourique to be a wonderful town as well, what a treasure! All the best, Nick.

[@pbohearn]

I really enjoyed this video, and I too love the Alentejo, The heart of Portugal, and the people have the biggest heart in Portugal! I also love the extremadura on Spain’s Western boundary with Portugal, which on the one hand is a vast plaln of nothingness Ala Texas, but when you actually drive around you discover some beautiful old towns and huge archaeological digs, including in the city center of Merida, formerly the capital of the ancient Roman province province of Lusitania! And a UNESCO world heritage site. There’s so many of these kind of amazing discoveries waiting to be found.Similarly in the Alentejo, you have to take a long ride into the Interior than down a dirt road for what seem to be a few miles right into the countryside where You come upon a sacred burial site thought to be over 7000 years old similar to Stonehenge! The place is so isolated that nobody knew about this archaeologically important burial mound until the 1970s, except for the sheep herders but they didn’t quite know what it was lol.It’s amazing and very humbling and mysterious, and on that particular late afternoon I shared this sacred site with only a small group of French visitors. We got along and kept our stereotypes lol. the pastoral scene is so beautiful as you have shown. I grew up in Southern California and I have to say that back in the day you could drive around Calabasas or Malibu Canyon or hidden hills on a spring day after the rain and it looked just like that. I myself have been tempted to buy farmland to produce something; my father was raised on a dairy farm so I have this idea that I’d be able to do it, but in reality I grew up in the suburbs, and I’ve lived in the cities all my life, and I would be very much like Eva Gabor in Green acres, Running to Lisbon at every Opera opening and shopping adventure. By the way I contribute to Google maps and I have a page there with photographs and reviews of all the things I just talked about, so if you want to find out more about those sacred sites in Spain and Portugal, a restaurant in Alentejo that was very off the beaten path as well as a bed-and-breakfast run by a brother and sister who fled Lisbon and is in the middle of a little village that consists only of the elderly residents, See what I've posted to Google Maps: Level 8 Local Guide maps.app.goo.gl/b6yDaKHM2yZaQThS7?g_st=ic

[@burnedmyrrh]

Great to know! Really different video,😊

[@robgilbert3395]

Another great vid - I especially enjoy the drone footage. Thanks kindly!

[@AlgarveAddicts]

You're welcome Rob, thanks for watching 👍🏼

[@thesaudadelife]

That whole place is stunning!!!!! 🙌🏽

[@AlgarveAddicts]

It sure is. 😁

[@pauvermelho]

5:15 5000 people it's the municipality not the village

[@Larry-jh8gf]

Beautiful home and land. Cool little town. Nice hidden gem, thanks Nick.

[@AlgarveAddicts]

You're welcome Larry 👍🏼

[@ciprianoneves7246]

The work to keep that land in shape and thenvery little return sounds reasonable also.

[@marybethblend4446]

I wish I could buy that house!! That's a dream place.

[@LNHOUSE]

Hi Nick, would you be so kind and share which sound track is playing at "10:10 Home walkthrough". I have a hobby of creating house music mixes and I really appreciated that track, nice taste btw! been hearing other cool music on your channel.

[@AlgarveAddicts]

Hi there, It's called Adios! by Andre Aguado available on Epidemic Sound (which I use religiously :) ) www.epidemicsound.com/track/bkPJZT6IcU/

[@LNHOUSE]

@@AlgarveAddicts Thank you very much! didn't know about Epidemic Sound, will have to explore it =P

[@BasicBeachCommunity1]

About 1 hour to Albufeira,the coast, not bad.....currently I'm 3 hours from the coast and it's way to far...Hopefully to get out of the landlocked zone soon...🤣😂Shh don't tell the missus...

[@mongofan1]

Beautiful house and grounds! From the drone shots, it looks like this lake was once much deeper. Is that correct?

[@AlgarveAddicts]

Yes, that's correct, it's pretty low right now as are most dams in Portugal.

[@mongofan1]

Is that thought to be temporary or is there a long-term (permanent?) drying happening, as there is in the western United States?

[@MrGideon63]

@@mongofan1 Yes, it’s been a dry few years. Quite a lot of extraction recently for irrigation of soft fruit and salad growers, probably more than is wise. There are plans to link it up by pipeline to the Alqueva near the Spanish border but these things take time. The talking and feasibility studies have been going on for around 5 years.

[@AlgarveAddicts]

As far as I have heard John, it's already linked... It's a fairly long story though.

[@MrGideon63]

@@AlgarveAddicts From Diario do Alentejo (10 Dec 2022): "The connection of the Monte da Rocha reservoir, located in the municipality of Ourique, to Alqueva, through the Roxo dam, “could be completed by the end of 2025”. The mayors hope that the project, which was scheduled to start last year, will not suffer further delays."

[@andrewrobinson28]

Lovely video. Pleasure to watch 👍

[@AlgarveAddicts]

Thanks Andrew!

[@MultiANTI]

Is there no smaller lakes surrounded by forest in portugal?

[@AlgarveAddicts]

Lots of dams like that up in the north of Portugal. Look along the rivers.

[@zeb747]

Nick, what about the town mate? I was waiting to see the town 😔

[@AlgarveAddicts]

Ourique? It's in there... It's all about Ourique...?

[@jurandirguimaraescastro9521]

Hi ! I want know the price . Thanks .

[@sappir26]

😍😍😍 does it include the horses?

[@AlgarveAddicts]

I'm not sure actually .

[@ronnymb67]

Absolutely gorgeous

[@johanswart8154]

I just met a couple who moved to the Algarve from South Africa because her husband is British. They were so disappointed because of the damp smell in the properties and the 3rd world look. Also the high living costs. Whitinn a week from arriving they moved to Viseu which they say is heaven.

[@AlgarveAddicts]

I'm glad they found happiness. 👍🏼 I'd love to check out Viseu, but I personally am really happy in the Algarve. Everyone is different though.

[@ginapereira2301]

Soon Portuguese people will not be able to afford the property in their own country. The British immigrants are driving up the prices. This land and house are overpriced! Thanks for the awesome video.

[@sarahmace5139]

Thankyou for this post. Really enjoy your videos. 😀 Is this lake available to the public? Or is it private.

[@AlgarveAddicts]

It's public but only for non motorized use.

[@maxfella]

The land looks interesting and has good potential, but the house is about €1 millions overpriced! 😆

[@jedw9983]

Sorry, too damn hot and dry in summer. Great cuisine, lovely people, and Casa Nirvana near Mooji's ashram is a hoot, but not for me.

[@lukehutton1]

Is this a joke? You wouldn’t even demand that in the Algarve… good luck with that… 😆 Keep the jokes coming though!! 🤦‍♂️😆🙏🏼😎🇵🇹

[@ciprianoneves7246]

1.3 million euros for a house in the middle of nowhere. Sounds reasonable.

[@lxportugal9343]

You didn't tell the full story about our first King Jesus appear to him before that battle... and told our King several things, one of them was Portugal would bring faith to strange lands

[@AlgarveAddicts]

There are a lot of things I haven't told you in my videos 🤣 Thanks for sharing.