Jean-Loic

You should make a few searches on this forum. There are not much foreigners who have a full time teaching job in a school. I believe a majority give private lessons and have a few hours per week in a private schools (without much rights...the ... Read More

Prices are flat for about 5 years. The bubble didn't burst but relatively to inflation, this is serious loss of value. So I don't think it will burst. Overall people are a bit more positive now about the economy. I bought an appartment in ... Read More

Yes good point. You will need at least Celpe-Bras test which is a portuguese test for foreigners. Brazil is so different from Europe or North America...there are almost no foreigners. What I mean is: there is not a "comunity" of foreigners ... Read More

Sorry I don't know anyone in this area. But I know doctora, civil engeneer, lawers who went or try to go through this process. An example of difficulty to validate diplomas in Brazil. My wife, Brazilian, did a MBA in London and when moving back ... Read More

You are specialized in a very regulated area. Make some searches on this forum or on internet. You need to re-validate your diploma in Brazil. This is a not a national revalidation but to be done in one university. This is a very long and painfull ... Read More

Yes your husband would benefit from your visa but without the right to work. That's not really an issue if he works remotely from Brazil. But the real issue is that it very very difficult to find a school which will sponsor your visa. Unless you ... Read More

I believe you don't have yet enough Q.I..."Quem Indica". First thing in brazil, much more than in EU or North America is to build your network of colleagues and friends. Without it, you don't exist. There are intenet websites, ... Read More

You missed a point there about Lochte.. I don't think Brazililians have any issues with American. The public reprobation was because, it is was the well known case of the rich man or the famous one breaching the law and getting a favorable ... Read More

There are a few discussions about this topic on this forum. Yes, you can teach english and all foreigners can teach their language. However this is quite difficult to make a living of it. Schools will give you low wage, a few hours only, with ... Read More

Mike, R$6000 per year in SP? Quite cheap. Here in Fortaleza, good private schools cost R$1200/month (over 12 months...yes 3 months holidays don't count). And Integral (full time 7:15 to 17:45)is: R$2000/month. Read More

I saw the same exact post several time overs the years. It has been recycled regularly by people who wants to create a viral post and it works. Well, they are actually some true points, some other wrong or stupid. In the past I agreed with most of ... Read More

Bamabrasileira. I could have written the same thing. I have got the same experience. On my side, I can read, listen, understand anything, write correctly. However there are these awkward moments when someone just block on my accent or on just one ... Read More

This will be very difficult to give any price. It is too dependent of bairro, street, quality of building/condo, utilities included, size. Look at OLX which is the biggest classified website in Brazil. Or estate agente websites. Search for ... Read More

Hi Nasaf, Firstly, well done if you enter in a master of Computer Science. This is one of the best uni in Brazil and a lot of brazilians would dream to get a master there. You cannot officially work with your student visa. I believe Brazil believes ... Read More

Remember machines don't produce hot water. I was wondering if top loaders in this case were actually better. Read More

Well, agree with what have been said except the point from Bamabrasileira about Pousadas/Bed and Breakfasts in Nordeste. This is a very very competitive market and I wont't advice anyone to do that no. Buy a place by the beach, in small town but ... Read More

FYI. I believe these 180 days are from your first entry in Brazil after obtaining your permanent visa. It doesn't "reset". The good news is: I was like you, I didn't ask fir for my local driving licence for a few years but when I ... Read More

You meant problems with Windows 10 "Anniversaray" update that has been sent to all PCs recently? I postponned it for a few days and one morning, the update auto-started and I have to wait 1H40 to complete on a relatively good notebook ... Read More

Something I saw quite often here is that people get 1 or 2 jobs. A full time one then at night the week-end. This is something quite rare in Europe, perhaps more comun in US. What it means is that Brazilian work hard too, we are far from stereotypes ... Read More

CraigF, great stuff really. This is something I would look at. What I am doing with my wife is less ambitious and quite simple: we simply hear from my in law familly, friends, colleagues or people leaving in our condo of someone in great need or ... Read More

MrMarques72, yes people will confirm on this forum that only chance to make a leaving in Brazil for expat is to create your business (I don't speak here of people moving in Brazil within an expat contract and actually they are not on this ... Read More

Well , people educated love to speak english or even french (older ones) and is most developped area of Brazil english could be usefull. Fair enough. Here in Ceara, english is certainly good on a CV as competition for jobs is harsh but it is not of ... Read More

What's a funny remark about how english would improve things in Brazil...this is really from an expaxt ego-centric who is lost in this country because almost noone speak english. Seriously, education needs to improve firstly in teaching to ... Read More

About SP, go only there if this is for business. I mean there are a lot to do like in any big cities. But I won't recommand to waste any day there. It is like any megapole in the world: big, busy, poluted, expensive. Read More

For a bank account, normally all banks should accept to open a regular current account but in reality, it is much easier with estatual banks (state own) : Banco do Brasil or Caixa. But as usual in Brazil, if you know someone/familly in law who know ... Read More

I have got some experience Caixa and Bradesco. Same range. Expensive. I heard about Nubank which is a new bank 100% online. They adverstise about there zero fee policy. Worth investigating. Could be a solution for just a regular current account. Read More

I believe you should opon a limited company. Much easier to have an accountant for that. He will help also you to setup also tax model for your company. The best would be "Simple Nacional"...which is the simplest tax model (relatively to ... Read More

I am french...and people though latin culture would help. It did for the first few months when I was still in a relaxing, holidays like period. But when I got back to work (creating my business actually), then it got extremelly stressfull. It is ... Read More

Sorry, could you clarify: you want to create your marketplace or do you want to sell products on a market place ? I didn't understand well: you're legal resident and you want to open a branch in Brazil of your business which is actually in ... Read More

I have got some experience and feeling very smillar to SkipStepOne. I am in Fortaleza where the expat community is very small. There are a few retired people and some "adventurers" (as would say the french "consul honoraire" in ... Read More

I do not know personnally Florianopolis but I would report here what my friend/familly and Brazilian media report about it. This is a city very apart in Brazil. safe, modern. High income and small island so inhabitant are only middle class... no ... Read More

Gambling and money games exists and are illegal. It is quite underground (or not)...in Rio, Carnaval blocks are famously sponsorised by gambling/lottery groups (should I say mafia...?). Everybody know about it and nobody does anything about it ... Read More

Opening a successfull pousada is a very difficult business. We don't see much examples on the english forum (because english speakers think firstly to teach english I believe) but in the same forum in french, you will find much examples and ... Read More

Do you mean a "barraca de praia" ? aka a small restaurant on the beach? Look at local announce in OLX .com.br. Be very carreful : not one barraca de praia has legal authorization to exist. So you will buy something that you don't ... Read More

As a rule; I never saw or heard about a brazilian company who made the effort (time and money) to sponsor a foreigner for a visa when already in the country with a tourist visa. Stop to dream; get in the country with a tourist visa and find a ... Read More

Marco, I believe it is quite natural to speak about things we dislike in these type of forums. Posssibly we are living in Brazil because there are things much more important for us and that we like a lot, like our familly for example. A lot of ... Read More

...Seriously, you do not find shower gel in Brazil? Do you mean you do not find in Brazil the shower gel brand you were using in your home country? That's the little inconvenient of expat life. Read More

Gotcha184. I hope I wasn't rude but I am sure you know what I mean. When poeple move here within an expat contract, they do not have any incentive to integrate. They know that in 3 years time, they will be off to another country. Furthermore, ... Read More

100% in sync with james' post. I feel exactly the same. Actually all people who are really thriving in Brazil show a great understanding of language, culture and "howto". Majority are so involved in Brazil that their spouse/partner is ... Read More

Well Mossoro... not a chance. Fortaleza or Recife at least. SP is definitely better for IT. I am living in Fortaleza and working in IT. There is a small market for APP developpers but there is competion and wages are low. There is exactly 0 ... Read More

I have to say all the expats I know /knew in Fortaleza from any nationalities are polite but quite distant (and I am like that too). All expats like all Brazilians from middle-high-class are very carefull about people they meet. Outsiders are ... Read More

They didn't retain mine too. I made the transfert in Fortaleza/CE 6 months ago. So the luck factor is still at play. Read More

Now then try to open a bank account for your new company (Brasília); then you will find how it is much more difficults...most private banks don't allow to open a bank account for companies which don't have yet revenus. Then only chances ... Read More

I will give you just a few advices. Firstly I am not sure what type of people you would like to get in contact with but I won't recommend to work with any people/intermediaries that you could get in contact with on this forum or others. Just use ... Read More

Actually there is very good safety feature that I did not see outside Brazil : safety nets on balconies and windows. Never seen in Europe and do not remember seeing it when travelling in North-America or Asia. +1 for Brazil on safety. So rare. Read More

But USA jets (F-18) and french one (Rafale) were much more expensive. So this would mean Swedish would be less honest in business than Americans and Frenchs? What a shock! I have been told all my life than Nordics were the model of honestly, good ... Read More

Just back from Paris; actually I left the day it happened. The day before I actually walked in the XI district where majority of events happened. Weather was quite mild for November and a lot of people were around. I can imagin what happened. Very ... Read More

Well since I went to my baank this morning, I looked more attentively at others when passing in front, and I saw that some were actually open. Clearly you will have more chance with private banks than estadual like Banco of Brasil, la Caixa. Read More

Actually I went to by bank branch and despite having signal "GREVE" on the front door, it was open and fully fonctional. The bank manager told it actually did not closed these last few weeks. Worth to take a look at your branch, you could ... Read More

Very complex and stupid way to implement a tourism tax. It should be much easier to implement this tax on the professional side: hotel/pousada could pay a tax by room/day rent. For away from Brazil, in Paris, they did that and it works well; they ... Read More

A few things about mobile telco and "how to" in Brazil: - Mobile calls are expensive and are outrageous when calling a different telecom providers - Because of first point, people are using very often two SIM cards (and thereafters two ... Read More

FYI, I have got some acquaintances who have been able to call directly their bank manager despite that their local branch was closed. So worth a try if someone need to resolve/ask something urgent to his bank. Read More

Hi Kaltrina, Yes I lived in Balham and worked in the City. There is no an "expat community" in Fortaleza. As I explained earlier, foreigners are general in mixt couple and don't feel the need to meet other oreigners. Then all new ... Read More

Yes bad news again and again but real estate market is not crashing. I believe prices are flat for some years (which mean reduced relatively to inflation) but difficult to know exact sold price, how many are sold and how many flats are unoccupied. ... Read More

Hi Kaltrinia, Not too much expats in Forteleza. Generally all are in mixt couple and are there for years so there not anymore "expats". Actually there is not any company which could offer "expat contract" in Fortaleza (I am ... Read More

Johnc, by marrying a "brazilian girl", a lot of people are looking for a solution to escape from their country because of misery, war, or perscecution. So I believe for them Brazil is a relatively safe country. Actually the most difficult ... Read More

Well I agree actually with you. I think also that it is a bit too easy to blame a few hundred years old colonization for nowadays problems. I was just trying to find excuse to Brazilians. Read More

Spanisshpete, the theory about that,is that Europeans came to South America (and Africa) to plunder ressources but never to found a new homeland like in North-America. It creaed a disfunctional society and some inequalities which stay until ... Read More

Without hesitation : Podcast Cafe Brasil. http://www.portalcafebrasil.com.br/todos/podcasts/ You have got the sound (can download the mp3 too) + text. This is quite high level portuguese and this is not targeting foreigners. But for people who want ... Read More

I do not think that manual transmissions is creating over anxious drivers. See numbers in Europe where big majorities of cars are manual and numero of deaths from road accident are 20x smaller than here. I am not a specialist in theory of ... Read More

It is like if roads were made of sugars and when raining, holes appear everywhere. It fixed quite quickly but without any care, just waiting for next big rainha. Actually the worst are manhole covers. I didn't see one fited properly, so these ... Read More

Well I am always surprised by people moving here and being surprised by health/medecine services! Is it because people generally live in place where health is "free" because they actually paying a lot of taxes for it like in some place in ... Read More

Well Fortaleza isn't English or any other teaching language friendly. I was expecting that things would improve for the Worldcup, it did not. - Fortaleza is a regional center with no much interaction with internationnal business. There are no ... Read More

Daugustonew, your analogy about how ignorant the French were in the 17th century, is a bit strange... They were clearly ignorant by today standard. But 17th century is the "Grand Siecle". Actually when France became first European ... Read More

James I totally agree with your safety tips for driving in Brazil but for me (at least in Fortaleza), Driving is still much safer than walking and using public transports. So for me the number 1 tip is : use a car (or a taxi) if you can. Actually ... Read More

Market slowed down 2 years but did not crash...and I do not know why. And now it is getting worse. Word Cup did not change things. Corruption scandals stop big investment. Internatioanl investors returned in their country. Nobody care anymore about ... Read More

James, allowing people to get residency and then nationality when having a child in Brazil is in the law. Planning to have a child to obtain these adventages is certainly not in the príncipe of the law. I have git some doubts that someone who ... Read More

Sandboxred. Are you asking us actually how to cheat the immigration system? You do not seem to be much interested about how to obtain a visa to enter in Brazil but more about a way to stay in Brazil by having a child. Read More

A good security advice for expats is to use a car like all middle-high class Brazilians. This is actually much much more secure than walking in the street or use public transports. It does seem to be a non-advice for North-Americans who are also ... Read More

Homicide rate are extremely high but 95% are generally in very localized districts of big town. Generally the poorest district and related to drugs traficing and alcolism. When you live in other places and get involved with people that you ... Read More

Victoria, I just saw your question. My molar has been removed 4 years ago in UK just before moving to Brazil. I am the kind of people who do not really like dentist visit... (I would prefer much more a punch in my face than a dental drill). So I ... Read More

You could find a job but it does nit give rights for a working visa. First issue. Then as explained James, it does not pay well and it is not enough money for an expat to live in a big city. Take what you could earn in London, let's say 2k per ... Read More

Well, I have got very fresh experience of dealing with DETRAN...just this morning. After a few years in Brazil, I decided also that it would be good indeed to get my Brazilian CNH instead of the French one. So I looked at Ceara DETRAN website and it ... Read More

And this is for half day. Generally all children study until midday. If you wan't full time (named "integral" in Brazil), you can double this price. Read More

Well, minha casa type of project are on the cheapest side of properties. I meant a familly flat (100m2>) in a nice bairro is minimum R$1M in all major cities. Paying that in 4-5 years is quite unheard in Europe/US if de keep in mind AVG salary in ... Read More

I just received a quote for a molar implant (molar that I already removed): R$900 for the pivot (phase 1) and R$900 for the molar implant (phase 2). So R$1800. More or less US$600. In a good dental clinic but in Fortaleza. Possibly more expensive ... Read More

Illegal in Brazil, false CPF, what else? Do you really expect that people on this forum will give consultation about cheating the system? By becoming illegal, you accepeted to enter in a world of uncertainty and insecurity. This is for people who ... Read More