Why are they so far yet so close ?

Why are they so far yet so close ?

Poverty brings people together from necessity

as always, it's Russia's fault

Beat me to it

I know poland is poor and all, but c'mon.
It isn't THAT poor, to be compared with portugal.

What do they have in common? Except that they're catholic

It's almost exactly as poor, in fact our generation will have a little more disposable wealth in Poland but we will inherit a lot more wealth in assets from our parents here.

>almost exactly
I wouldn't say almost exaclty.
There is small difference, indeed, maybe not that small, who knows, but year by year, month by month is getting bigger.

Why are you so poor btw? You had almost 80 years of headstart before us. It take us 25 years, to be a richer country than yours. And when we started, we had nothing but debts, from fake gov under russian occupation.

Only czechs were better than us, but they're smaller, so it's much easier to get rich, when you start with so little.

they are not white thats why

But i thought, west is white. Only those stupid slavs, that didn't do anything good for the world, aren't white.

the whole south is brown as fuck but only becouse they arent africa tier europe calls them ,,white''

>iberians
>not white

comunist coup, general instability, european integration and brain drain (most of them ocurred at the same time)
our economy is pretty much a zombie by now, asside the very little industry that survived in the north, it's only agriculture in rural areas and services in the cities, it's depressing how bad things are.

you're joking or just take all memes seriously? we're actually poorer than Portugal

But we were in worse situtation after communism, and we still somehow pull it off. Why can't you

Poland is a shithole. How dare you compare us with them.
And yeah you can meme how much you want and post your maps.
Just cause our economy is bad...
We're like spain with less money. More jobs tho.

el friegaplatos

Thats just one cherrypicked map m8. There are dozens of other indicators telling that Portgal is still richer

Local purchashing index is actually the best, and most precise one. Of course, there may be some other indexes, where portugal is better, or worse, but they don't matter that much, when it comes to how much you can buy, with your standard salary.

we didn't receive strong investment from our neighbours, in fact, we only started to see any investment at all after we joined EU (although the free market pretty much killed what was left of our economy).
By the way, we only joined the EU because we were already very near the bankrupcy. We took only 10 years to become bankrupt

we may have better lifes, but our economy is absolute shit. If we had your unemployment we would be ahead, but we have lots of unemployment and emigration/brain drain at the same time.
if no one left the country we'd have spain's unemployment (which is huge)

And how's your gov? Did you guys keep choosing the same, or maybe you tried with many of them, but all of them were commies?

yeah no

This one is from 2014

this one is from 2016

t. alberto butthurt

face it, we're shit

>Local purchashing index is actually the best
yeah, and it coincidentally is the only one we're better at. Besides, perhaps you can buy more potatoes for your PLN wage, but you still have to work longer to buy yourself exported goods like cars or electronics

i still love you even tho we are shit too

Portugal is a failed state full of nonwhites. It has no future.

we pretty much switched betwen big state keynisians (socialists) and small state neo-classics (classical liberals)
both of them are/were very populist and corrupt

...

S-Sorry our nationals just hate people who love sun

If you actually left your country and go to some eastern european shithole you would know.
The moment you leave the capital all you see is commieblocks.
Those niggers aint got shit on us.
Yeah, we're bad compared with western european countries, but fuck it.

they weren't tanned... I wouldn't blame the locals for being nasty to them (if that even happened, it seems their history had inconsistencies)

wasnt one of them black or brown?

They are both poor, but the portugese arent polish, so there is hope for them

yep, more than one actually. But they would be brown without sun anyway

Economist in the making here, we have always been poorer than you in terms of human capital.

The real question is actually why were we richer than you for so long despite having an uneducated primitive workforce.

The obvious answer to the real question is you had Commies running the show, there is no mystery here. Another thing is that we blew our EU funds on large useless public works, namely highways in the interior and Lisbon, while you use your EU funds to improve the productivity of your German-managed enterprises.

A final thing of note is that anyone with two working neurons will be seeking to leave Portugal in the near future, maybe I'll join the polish qt I met in Warsaw some day.

wow rude and uncalled for

Reunion with Spain when?

Well, no one here really wants that, however I'm not a nationalist so it's irrelevant, at least to me, I'm fine either way.

Also this is a very cringeworthy image