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Portuguese do not have a sense of time and they will never arrive on time

Portugal

This is just normal part of the culture I guess. It happens in countless situations.

If they say they will deliver a EUR 20,000 home gym order at 13:00, you will be waiting at 14:30 and there will be not a single person who has arrived. Nor will they message you what’s going on.

You then have about 40% odds that it will arrive around 16:00 or 17:00, but more likely they will say “difícil hoje” aka “today difficult” and they will come in a week.

It’s just mind boggling how anyone gets anything done in Portugal when nobody respects punctuality even to the slightest.

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  • Pink Rice

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    Jun 9, 2025

    The Portuguese don’t get things done.

    Portugal builds fewer homes than any other OECD nation.

    Young Portuguese people cannot afford homes because their parents have destroyed this country and its housing market with their laziness and sloppy standards.