15000€/year gross? In Portugal that's slightly above minimum wage. Might be okay in the middle of the countryside. There should be plenty of skilled programmers racing to live there, right? The cost of living in cities is quite inflated by digital nomads and wealthy retirees and is starting to be unaffordable for Portuguese. Edit: 15000 USD is 12800 EUR, that's a few cents an hour above minimum wage. And Poland costs already more than that BTW.