Cost of living in Brazil - 2017

My satalite TV is $156:  My electricy is $100 to $300.  My doctor is free.  My specialist is $100.  To license the car is $900.  I spend about $1100 or more at the grocery store.  The internet is $ 60.  I can eat out for $ 15 to $ 75.  The figures are in real.

Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant    24.00 R$

Rice (white), (1kg)    4.25 R$   
Eggs (12)    4.70 R$

One-way Ticket (Local Transport)    3.00 R$

Gasoline (1 liter)    3.70 R$

Basic (Electricity, Heating, Water, Garbage) for 85m2 Apartment    207.38 R$

Apartment (3 bedrooms)     1,500.00 R$

Cinema  16.00$  Senior is half price.

We spend about 350.00R$ per month for food

Fuel is 220.00R$

Condo Fee is 750.99R$

Jim

All in Reals and by the month

Apartment is usually $1500 with condo fee $750

A house can be $2500 - infinity (depends) and my condo fee is $1500

Car is expensive at $50.000,00 to buy a used car
taxes are roughly $2000 a year
Fill fuel tank $210

Monthly grocery is $1000

Health insurance for family of 4 is $1000, but this is top of the line ICU, helicopter ride, and including private room.

Kids school for 2 is $1800

Electricity is roughly $230 without AC units and $800-1000 with AC

Bottle of propane, $800 for huge bottle that lasts a year (we cook one meal a day).

Water is $100 - 300

Internet, home phone and TV is $278
Cell phones are $200

To eat out is $25 - 125 (depends)

Gym is $129

water 100 - 300?.....like bottled water to drink or your water bill?


In the other cities outside São Paulo capital it's not unusual to find a two bedroom apartment in the best neighbourhood for R$1000 - R$1500 including condominium

Water bill

Priscilla,

I am living on the NE coast of Brazil in Praia de Pipa, a tourist area so the costs may seem a little higher compared to some other places.  Using R$3.11 to the US Dollar.

> How much does it cost to rent an apartment/house in Brazil?   I bought mine in 2008 when the dollar was $1.00: R$1.35.  Given what has happened you can see that I will not be able to get my money from this house for some time to come.

> How much do you pay for your public transport tickets (bus, subway, train, tram)?  I purchased a Honda Fit.  Saw this exact model with more options in Dallas, TX, USA and my wife loved it.  Bought the exact same model with much fewer options in Natal.  In Texas:  $18,500  usd.  Same car with less options in Natal:  $17,268 USD or R$67,000.

> Staple food: what do people eat and how much do they pay for basic food like bread, rice or pasta?

>What is your monthly grocery budget?  $386.00 USD or R$1,200.00 per month (buy in Natal as apposed to Pipa with tourist prices)

> How much does it cost to see a physician/doctor/specialist in Brazil ?   I have Amil medical insurance.  For both my wife and myself the cost is $1,400.00 USD or R$4,400.00 per month.  We have been to see our doctor for physicals, dermatologist, eye doctor and have paid no out of pocket expenses.

> What is your children's schooling monthly budget?   No children

> How much does it cost to fill up your car's fuel tank? $48.00 USD or R$150.00

> How much do you pay for electricity/gas/water etc.?  Electricity:  $119.00 USD or R$370 per month.  Water is included in condo fees.  Gas:  The knee high size bottle the cost is $16.00 or R$50.00 every 4 to 5 months (with gas bottle trade in).

> How much do you pay for your Internet/phone subscription?  $39.00 USD or R$120 per month for 15 - 30 mb download. This is also fiber optics.  Cell phone is Claro at $18.97 USD or R$59.00 per month for 1 cell line.

> How much do you pay for your lunch pack on weekdays?  Built into grocery bill

> How much do you pay for an espresso coffee?  Built into grocery bill

> How much do you pay for a cinema ticket?  Went in Natal for new movie release at $1.93 USD or R$6.00 for both myself and wife (over 60 years of age)

> How much does a gym membership cost in Brazil?  $41.80 USD or R$130.00 per month for 2 people.

The cost of living in Brazil depends on where you want to live and how you want to live.  It will also depend on the landlord.owner of the property. You can rent a room, a house, an apt. or live in a republica. Your landlord might or might not charge for water and electricity (agua e luz incluido) or may charge for one or the other, or both.

I lived in a republica in São Paulo for a little over 4 years. All I needed/wanted was my room for space. I paid about R$560 per month for that room. I paid R$700 a month for a double room. There were no other charges associated with living there other than food and transportation.

SPTrans charges R$3.80 per ride. If you have a card (which you need a CPF and Brazilian ID to get now), one fare will give you up to three or four bus rides in a four hour time period. The subway system also costs R$3.80 per ride, although if you swipe your card after riding the bus, your fare will be discounted to R$1.90.

For cellular service, I use Vivo and Tim prepaid. I pay about R$10 a week for Vivo and this allows me to call any other Vivo user for free and gives me 500 MB of data. How much I spend for Tim depends on how much I use it, because I haven't put myself on a plan. I average about R$20 a month.

How much I spend on food a month depends on what I'm eating and who I'm feeding. I have a Brazilian wife and her daughter and grandson are visiting right now. Her son has decided he's going to live with us, also. I wasn't consulted in this decision, even though I pay 95% of the expenses out of my freelance earnings. I'm told this is just "the Brazilian way." I have no say whether he stays or goes, either. He contributed nothing except mess and heartache to the household. Her daughter (and her husband) are thinking of moving here from Recife and if they do, we may share a larger house with them (and all expenses) or they may find a place of their own.

Staples like rice and beans run in the area of about R$3-4 per kilo. Veggie prices are pretty much in line with prices in the US. Meats are little more expensive. You can expect to pay anywhere from R$8 to R$13 per kilo for boneless skinless chicken breasts and about R$12 - R$15 er kilo for ground beef.

Propane is usually sold by the bottle. Here where I live it costs about R$59 a bottle.

here you can compare ,, cost , crime health care etc ...    https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/c … try=Brazil

> How much does it cost to rent an apartment/house in Brazil? 
R$2500 rent + taxes  for a two rooms in Vila Mariana

> How much do you pay for your public transport tickets (bus, subway, train, tram)?
R$170/month

> Staple food: what do people eat and how much do they pay for basic food like bread, rice or pasta?
I make my own bread since I was spending almost R$20/day in Vila Mariana.

>What is your monthly grocery budget?
R$1200 for a family of 3 (with organics vegetables)

> How much does it cost to see a physician/doctor/specialist in Brazil ? 
from R$ 80 to R$500, depends on the profissional. But, with a health insurance, you won't pay extra.

> What is your children's schooling monthly budget? R$900

> How much does it cost to fill up your car's fuel tank? I don't have a car

> How much do you pay for electricity/gas/water etc.? I don't know

> How much do you pay for your Internet/phone subscription? R$50 (pre-paid)

> How much do you pay for your lunch pack on weekdays? R$15

> How much do you pay for an espresso coffee? I don't drink coffee

> How much do you pay for a cinema ticket? I don't go to the movie

> How much does a gym membership cost in Brazil? Between R$100 and R$200

It is so difficult to say because the cost of living and the value of the currency is always changing! For example in Feb 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, the cost of 500g of black beans was 4,99R$ and in Feb 2017 it was 10,99R$. Also in Feb 2016 the exchange rate was 1USD to 4R$ so the cost for those beans was about $1USD. Now in Feb 2017, the exchange rate is 1USD to 3R$, so the cost for that bag is now $3.50USD. This makes planning in advance difficult.

Also bear in mind, rental properties usually increase an average of up to 10%/year. And insurance costs increase a standard 15%/year.

For more info on what it feels like to like in Brazil....take a peak at the bromeliario.com/blog

elcamino1965 wrote:

My satalite TV is $156:  My electricy is $100 to $300.  My doctor is free.  My specialist is $100.  To license the car is $900.  I spend about $1100 or more at the grocery store.  The internet is $ 60.  I can eat out for $ 15 to $ 75.  The figures are in real.

This is a great topic...but lets be clear: are your prices in Reis or USD??

For better context.

CraigF wrote:

All in Reals and by the month

Apartment is usually $1500 with condo fee $750

A house can be $2500 - infinity (depends) and my condo fee is $1500

Car is expensive at $50.000,00 to buy a used car
taxes are roughly $2000 a year
Fill fuel tank $210

Monthly grocery is $1000

Health insurance for family of 4 is $1000, but this is top of the line ICU, helicopter ride, and including private room.

Kids school for 2 is $1800

Electricity is roughly $230 without AC units and $800-1000 with AC

Bottle of propane, $800 for huge bottle that lasts a year (we cook one meal a day).

Water is $100 - 300

Internet, home phone and TV is $278
Cell phones are $200

To eat out is $25 - 125 (depends)

Gym is $129

Just curious, what part of Brazil are you in? Over the last few years I have spent a month each yar in Rio with plans to move down on a long term basis.

dzackery wrote:

elcamino1965 wrote:

My satalite TV is $156:  My electricy is $100 to $300.  My doctor is free.  My specialist is $100.  To license the car is $900.  I spend about $1100 or more at the grocery store.  The internet is $ 60.  I can eat out for $ 15 to $ 75.  The figures are in real.

This is a great topic...but lets be clear: are your prices in Reis or USD??

For better context.

The figures are in real.

Goiania

My daughter just finished registering her son at the private school here. R$6000 a year and that doesn't count uniforms or any school supplies. School supplies here constitute a large amount of things American schools supply, like scissors, glue, construction paper, colored pen and pencils, and more. 7 years old and we also had to buy a musical scale notebook for writing music.

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.

Wow. I still think it's weird all the things we had to buy that I feel would normally be supplied by the school in the US. It feels like a big racket to me.

Yes, the schools are expensive here. I paid just in tuition last year for 2 kids half day of school (7:40 - 12:00) R$21.140,47. This doesn't include school uniforms, books, supplies, snacks, field trips, etc. I do think the schools are good here and they don't teach dumb stuff like common core. I am glad my children are experiencing a different culture.

Yeah, kids, kid stuff and anything kid related is a big raquet in Brazil.....they know thats the fastest way to get your money outta your pocket!