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Normally known as a rather grumpy, gruff sort of boring old fart - nevertheless I'll do my best to put your boat back on an even keel.
First you're doing this for yourselves not for the rest of the family, you only come this way once and this is not a practice ride so make the most of this life and stuff the rest.
Portugal is beautiful, cultured, warm, welcoming and still relatively cheap. Your standard of life will be at least as good as anything you could have afforded back in blighty.
Flights are cheap, quick and plentiful from/to Porto,Lisbon and Faro and anytime they feel they really cannot live without you they can jump on a plane from any number of UK airports and you can do the reverse.
Feel guilty as hell in January when the thermometers are hovering around freezing back in blighty and you're taking a walk with just a light jacket on along the promenade/cliffs/beach.
Sit down (outside your favourite restaurant) and savour the sardines and gala, look at the bill once you've savoured them and try hard to feel guilty about those having to run from the car to the local pub cos it's raining, for a microwaved lasagne that's cost 3 times what you're paying for something straight from the sea. Go back your lovely Portuguese home and toast your good luck with a nice rich glass of Port. Then and only then go and take a look at your monthly heating bill and remember what it used to look like and how you dreaded its arrival. I dare you to try and feel guilty after all that.
Best of British to you - follow your dream, if they love you that much they'll be as pleased for you as you are for yourselves. You've planned, worked and scrimped for this dream don't allow anyone to turn it into a nightmare.
Smiling yet?????
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I would say similar.
Assuming you live somewhere near a mahjor airport, it is no big deal now. Modern communications make people feel close.
Takes me no longer to get to London from western Germany that it does from, say, Manchester or Newcastle.
The world is small now.
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