He moved from Reno to rural Portugal, bought a house for $300,000, and makes travel videos for a living: How one American guy pieced together his dream life at 32

• Dave Alastair moved from Reno, Nevada, to a rural province 45 minutes north of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022.
• He bought a three-bedroom house with a pool for $300,000 and says he appreciates his new laidback lifestyle.
• "I think the biggest difference is that in the United States, people are in this kind of survival mode," he said.

For Dave Alastair, an American man who had been living in Nevada, moving to a rural province 45 minutes north of Lisbon, Portugal, wasn't exactly a planned decision.

Alastair, now 32, lost his job in the aviation industry when the pandemic hit. While he was out of a job, he started his own videography company, which eventually got him into making travel videos.