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Portugal vs Georgia

Portugal gives you an EU base and a well-trodden nomad path, but the D8 visa asks for roughly 3,680 euros a month and Lisbon rents keep climbing. Georgia lets almost anyone stay a full year visa-free and can tax you as little as 1% on turnover, yet it sits outside the EU and tightened its remote-work rules in March 2026.

Portugal vs Georgia

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Portugal Georgia
Digital nomad visa Digital Nomad Visa (D8) C5 visa
Income requirement ~EUR 3,680/mo (D8 digital nomad visa, 4x the minimum wage, which is EUR 920 in 2026) No published income or savings threshold for the new C5 visa; the old ~$2,000/mo (or ~$24,000 savings) Remotely from Georgia figure is defunct and no longer applies. The 365-day visa-free stay needs no income proof either.
Tax residency Tax resident once you spend more than 183 days in Portugal in any rolling 12 months, or keep a home here in conditions that show you mean to live in it. The old NHR is closed to new arrivals; its successor IFICI (NHR 2.0) is a narrow 20% regime for research, innovation and highly qualified roles. Resident for the whole tax year if physically present 183 days or more in any continuous 12-calendar-month period that ends inside that tax year, a different window from a plain calendar year. A high-net-worth individual can separately be granted residency with no day count at all, under rules the finance and justice ministries set. The 1% small-business regime applies up to GEL 500,000 turnover a year, rising to 3% on the amount above that from the month you cross the line, but the law bars medical, architectural, legal, notarial, audit and consulting work of any kind (including tax consulting), plus currency exchange, gambling and staffing, from the 1% rate entirely. Foreign-source income is generally outside Georgia's territorial net, but work physically performed while in Georgia is taxed as Georgian-source regardless of where the client sits.
Cost of living Moderate Low
Currency EUR GEL
Healthcare Foreigners on short visits rely on travel medical insurance or an EU GHIC/EHIC for medically necessary care, while residents register with Portugal's public health system (SNS). Foreigners pay for treatment and cannot register for Georgia's national healthcare system, so comprehensive travel or health insurance is essential; private clinics in Tbilisi and Batumi are decent and inexpensive.
Driving Visitors can generally drive on a valid foreign licence for short stays, and an International Driving Permit is recommended (and effectively required for some nationalities such as Indian licence holders). A valid foreign licence is generally accepted for up to about 12 months from entry, after which an International Driving Permit alongside your licence or a Georgian licence is needed.

The bottom line

On money Georgia wins: Tbilisi runs about 1,000 to 1,200 dollars a month against Lisbon's 1,500 to 2,400 euros, and the 1% small-business regime is hard to beat if you qualify. But the catch is real: work you physically do while sitting in Georgia is usually treated as Georgian-source, not foreign, and the visa-free stay no longer guarantees the right to work on the ground. Portugal costs more and taxes you as a resident past 183 days now that NHR is closed, yet you get EU residence, reliable healthcare, English almost everywhere and a path others have already mapped. Neither is a slam dunk: Georgia rewards the lean, mobile solo earner, Portugal rewards anyone who wants to actually settle in Europe.

Pick Portugal if you want a long-term European base with solid healthcare, easy English and eventual EU residence, and you can clear the roughly 3,680 euro D8 income bar.

Pick Georgia if you are a lean, mobile solo earner who values near-zero paperwork, a 365-day visa-free stay and a possible 1% tax rate, and you are comfortable living outside the EU.

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