beach walk

Good luck.

haha ..  thank you.

As Esther Hicks said, I just have to figure out what I want, and talk myself into it :-)

I went to school in Texas in a town called Big Sandy.   USA has all kinds of beautiful places.  I resonate with the southwest, say, Albequerque.  Lived in Oregon all my life but when I saw Rio something clicked.

By "You have a beautiful country.  I have a nice laptop."  I was thinking about being happy with what is.

Anyway, thanks for your reply!

Big Sandy wildcats, know it well. Worked in Kilgore. Lived in Longview.
You need to look a little farther NE of Rio. Beaches are polluted and crime is high. Santa Catarina (Flropa) is nice.
Guaranty you will find many here with covid and make you a believer. We are building more cemeteries than repairing roads.
Cannot work in Brazil unless you are a permeant resident and then get a work card. wages low, taxes high. Great place if you have solid US income with the exchange rate. The language will be rough and not many Americans in one part of Brazil. I have been here for many years and only met one who is actually from the UK but married a Brazilian and worked in Houston.
Have yet to find a church with an English mass or sermon.

c_rex

Brazil is a great country, no doubt, but under the best of circumstances, it's not easy.  The pandemic has shut the country off from the outside world for the next several months, at least.  In normal times tourists are welcome, but digital nomads are not, and immigrants even less, unless they have a family or employment connection to Brazil.  The language barrier for non-Portuguese speakers is daunting, and accommodations for persons with disabilities are virtually non-existent in most of the country.  In many parts of most cities, even sidewalks are.

There are a lot of great places in the Caribbean, much closer to you, where "you have a beautiful country, I have a nice laptop" will get you a much warmer welcome.  Some of them, like Belize, are even English-speaking.  I'd recommend checking them out.  If your heart is set on Brazil, I get that.  If you decide to come to check it out though, just make sure that you arrive with your exit strategy already in place -- just in case.

ah poo.  beachwalk video made everything look so .. dreamy.

lol @ my comment ".. beautiful country, .. nice laptop" followed by ".. warmer welcome."

i get that.  i say things that look like they mean something else all the time.  Anyway, very informative @abthree.  That certainly changes my perspective.  Yes I have thought about "the Caribbean" as well.  I'm sorry to hear that things aren't as rosy as I thought.  I hope things pick up!

I'm a free energy researcher (creating excess power is ridiculously easy - example:  person in swing - output from chain - [horizontal] - 1200% efficient)

Also a programmer.  Working on a new image format atm, might out-perform jpeg.  Don't know yet but I haven't felt this inspired in .. well as far as I can remember, ever!

Well shoot I think I'll stick around - I feel like i've received a warm welcome already!  Information  is more valuable than many realize.

Yeah, Texan, Ambassador University was my school.  They are no longer in business.  Were subsidized by church, but received a world-class education regardless.  my spelling isn't what it used to be though.  Had to double-check "Portuguese" and "Caribbean" from abthree.

Yeah shoot, one year, the campus weather man said we had a microburst but there were many who disagreed, instead saying it was an actual tornado.  I heard a rumor that weather station was downplaying the fact that they didn't detect the tornado .. uhh .. i don't know exactly.  1996 - ish :-)

Weather where I am now, Bend, OR, is fantastic.  Days are getting longer.