A cost-of-life postcard
Not a relocation plan. Just your rent, routine, and small pleasures — translated to a place you can’t stop thinking about.
City model
Oregon, US
23rd globally
2023–25 country average
Country-level context, not a promise about a neighborhood or a person.
City model
Portugal
69th globally
2023–25 country average
Country-level context, not a promise about a neighborhood or a person.
A different kind of list
To keep this exact rhythm in Lisbon, you’d need to earn
$24,561 less than you make now
Medium–low confidence Country category price levels are official ICP data. The city adjustment is a documented, hand-maintained estimate.
Atlantic light, late dinners, tiled hills.
The place behind the numbers
Gathering its field notes…
The transform
Each line starts with this lifestyle baseline in Portland, then re-prices itself in Lisbon.
each month
Estimated from market rent and local price levels.
each month
US average price, adjusted for local café prices.
each month
US average price, adjusted for restaurant prices.
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US average food basket, adjusted for local food prices.
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US transport estimate, adjusted for local transport prices.
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US average price, adjusted for local communications prices.
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US average price, adjusted for local recreation prices.
saved monthly
A modeled annual travel allowance, adjusted for the destination.
Why every line says “Estimated”: World Bank ICP 2021 price level indices, chained with 2025 World Bank CPI. Human-maintained city-tier estimates, reviewed 2026-08-31. These adjustments are explicitly less certain than the country-level source data. 12% difference from current private-consumption PPP ratio.
Made to be honest
Country category PLIs are normalized to US = 1.00 and CPI chained from 2021. City factors are separate estimates. Each line is marked Estimated — an official country category price level, carried forward with CPI and adjusted by a documented city estimate — because the city layer is not an observed local price.
300 places · ICP reference year: 2021 · Country CPI carried forward to latest available year · City adjustments reviewed August 2026
Country-level life evaluation is an average Gallup World Poll response for 2023–2025, reported on a 0–10 scale. It is never presented as a city score. 266 places have a reported result.