Do I need to own a car in Portugal?

Whether or not I need to own a car in Portugal depends first, the place where I live.  In Estoril and Cascais (in the Lisbon area), you have everything at walking distance. If you want to go to the city center, you have a coastal train that’s a beautiful trip—the train goes always along the seafront from Cascais to the city center of Lisbon and it takes 25 minutes. The bus and taxi terminals are all over the place. So transportation in Portugal is very, very well...

Whether or not I need to own a car in Portugal depends first, the place where I live.  In Estoril and Cascais (in the Lisbon area), you have everything at walking distance. If you want to go to the city center, you have a coastal train that’s a beautiful trip—the train goes always along the seafront from Cascais to the city center of Lisbon and it takes 25 minutes. The bus and taxi terminals are all over the place. So transportation in Portugal is very, very well developed. Not only that, we have various motorways that connect the north to the south of Portugal within 3 to 4 hours. So you can cross our country in 4 and a half hours from top to bottom, and from side to side, you can do it in 2 hours.
 
Personally, I have a car, and pretty much everybody, in middleclass and above has a car.  In a family of five there’s five cars.

 

(Rossio train station, Lisbon, Portugal, pictured.)