However, one of the biggest benefits for her was the fact that she felt comfortable walking around alone in the evening, something that wasn’t the case in San Diego; Portugal is the seventh safest country in the world, according to the Global Peace Index.

"I just feel so safe here," she says, adding that she loves how walkable Porto is and the fact that it "feels like a village."

Although she has a car, Dreyfuss says she doesn’t use it often and notes that drivers seem to go much slower in the city.

"People say to me, "How can you drive in Porto?’" she says. "And slon11 cc I’m like,