Inês Carvalho
Porto, Portugal
Visa type
Portugal D8
Monthly coworking
€180/mo
Timezone offset
UTC+0 (WEH)
Three years ago, Inês Carvalho was commuting 90 minutes each way in Toronto, managing a design team she mostly talked to on Slack anyway. Her husband worked remotely for a Seattle company. Their daughter was two. The math, she says, wasn't complicated.
They landed in Porto on a D8 visa, found a four-bedroom apartment for less than their Toronto one-bedroom, and enrolled their daughter in a bilingual school within walking distance. Inês now leads UX for two fintech clients across European time zones, books coworking desks at Cowork Central when she needs whiteboard space, and has been known to attend standups from a café table overlooking the Douro.
She joined Roam after finding a thread where someone had mapped every pediatric English-speaking doctor in Greater Porto. "That thread alone was worth a year of membership dues," she says.
"We didn't move to Portugal for the weather. We moved because our daughter could walk to school and I could ship a product before lunch."Read Inês's full story in the Atlas →
