My wife Kadi and I did not come to Madeira to build a real estate company.
We came because we fell in love with the island. The light. The year-round temperature. The Atlantic on every horizon. The feeling — rare, once you have lived in enough places — that this is somewhere you could actually build a life. Not a holiday. A life.
So we did what serious buyers do. We researched. Thoroughly. We visited properties. We studied floor plans. We sat in living rooms and tried to imagine Christmas there, a piano in the corner, grandchildren on the stairs twenty years from now.
And we kept walking away.