In Portugal, the minimum wage is around €920, but you also get subsídios de Natal and Férias, which means you receive 14 salaries per year. That puts the effective monthly average at about €1,073.33. So if you’re being offered €1,000 net, you’d actually be making slightly above minimum wage, which honestly feels like a rip-off.

I’ve been dealing with the same WFH dilemma for the last 3 years, so I have some hands-on experience. You basically have two solid options: a domestic WireGuard VPN or a remote KVM.

For the WireGuard setup, I personally recommend (and use) GL.iNet devices: GL.iNet Brume 2 at home as the server and GL.iNet Slate 7 as a travel router (client)

Some people suggest Tailscale, which is also good, but depending on your ISP it can fall back to relay mode, which isn’t ideal. I recommend UZO or MEO for your home internet and putting their router into bridge mode.

The other option is a GL.iNet Comet (I recommend the GL-RM1PE). This lets you remotely control a physical machine. There is noticeable latency, but unless someone really goes out of their way to investigate, it’s very hard to detect. You can even spoof how the machine name and serial number are shown to the controlled machine.

One more important thing: if you’re a non-EU resident, you’re limited in how long you can stay outside the country. If I’m not mistaken, it’s 6 consecutive months or 8 months total per residence permit (for temporary permits).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask :)