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09-05-18 13:00 #1539
Posts: 2278Doing Business in Brazil.
I have made money doing business in Brazil. I am one of the few.
The key is to know you will not make money for very long. When it comes to business, Brazilians are not into long-term mutually beneficial relationships. Sooner (more likely) than later, they will fuck you over. Just like the scorpion, it is their nature. I attribute their periods of hyper-inflation for their get the most you can while you can attitude. Also, mortality rates (natural and not so natural- a good friend of mine's father was shot and killed by the police) are a contributing factor. A lack of mortgages also is a contributing factor. However, you can buy a shirt in 12 easy payments.
Used to think that it was just gringos that the Brazilians screwed over until I became friends with more Brazilians and watched them regularly screw over each other. Even in the US, with Brazilians you have helped out personally and financially they with TRY to screw you over. The key is to be prepared and never let your guard down thinking this time it will be different. It won't.
So, if you have a product or service with a short-term window of opportunity, go for it. If you are thinking that Brazil is going to be a long-term income stream, forget it. The widely fluctuating exchange rate alone can do you in. Let's say you are Coke and sell a 2 liter in the US for $1.50. In Brazil right now you would need to sell the same 2 liter for over 6 Reais. Of course, that does not factor in domestic production of the product. If you are importing it, it also does not factor in how much gets "lost" in customs. For fun some day, go to the off airport site where these "lost" items are supposedly auctioned.
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01-09-18 16:44 #1538
Posts: 610Originally Posted by SoloTraveler [View Original Post]
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01-08-18 01:52 #1537
Posts: 1184Originally Posted by SoloTraveler [View Original Post]
If you have had all that trouble in other countries it won't be different no matter where you go. Especially considering the fact that you probably don't speak the language and neither do you know the Brazilian Culture&People as the natives do.
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01-07-18 14:58 #1536
Posts: 426Is Brazil a friendlier place to live in?
I look mostly East Asian.
According to some people, I look 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 indigenous Mexican, though I think they're just generalizing and there isn't really a fixed look for all Mexican or Chinese people.
I have lived in and visited many countries, mostly English-speaking or German-speaking countries.
People always say something like the USA, Canada, the U. K, Australia, etc are melting pots.
I really don't think so. Despite speaking English like a native speaker (I even adjusted my accent based on different regions I went to), I was always seen as a strange foreigner. And, yes, I got called out a lot even in this day and age.
I heard that the real melting pot in this world is in fact Brazil, with nearly 50% of the population are multi-ethnic and mixed-raced.
There is no way to tell a Brazilian by looks. So, the Brazilians will just think of you as one of them, instead of assuming you're a foreigner.
Is it true? Is Brazil a friendlier place to live in?
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10-30-17 04:15 #1535
Posts: 1535Clean clothes
Is there a Dry Cleaners in Copa? I have seen a bunch of laundromats but I have never seen a dry cleaners.
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07-09-17 06:56 #1534
Posts: 40Since the year 1500 that was when Brazil was "inaugurated", here comes the worst people in the world, and continues until today (2017).
I'm not talking bad about you.
But here it is so ridiculous that if you are a Brazilian citizen, everything you have to do has to pay absurd fees, but if you are a refugee, the government gives everything for free to you. This is what happened to the Haitians a few years ago coming to Brazil after a hurricane.
Since the re-election of President Dilma Rousseff in October 2014 (she had impeachment last year) we are in a crisis never seen in Brazilian history. The government is out of money for the citizens themselves, but less than a decade ago, several debts were forgiven with our neighboring communist countries, several billion dollar donations were made to these damned Communists, various buildings were donated. And we residents of the Brazil we're in the shit. And where are these neighboring countries to help us now?
You can go to some social assistance headquarters (here we call CRAS Social Assistance Reference Center) and ask for help, just say that you are a refugee. In less than 10 days you have for free all the documents you need, Already a Brazilian would have to pay and it would take months to be delivered.
Different from other countries that require various things like proof of income, residence, vaccine, money in savings, level of local language knowledge etc. Here is only you arrive "empty handed" (no bag, food, Documents, extra clothes etc) that the government gives it all to you. For free.
Here if you kill an animal you get stuck seven years, if you kill a human gets six months or at most one night.
We have a program of redistribution of income called "Bolsa Família", that for the family to be entitled to this money, the children need to be in school, the family earns about are $ 250 (USD 84), but if you are arrested, your family earns more Of are $ 950 (USD 317) reais. Here it is better to be arrested than to study.
If you are white and spend all your life studying to enter a university or public contest, the black or Indian passes in front of you only because he is "a victim of society, he will always need help. "
If you are an honest cop and you are on your break and you are caught by a thief in a market and you shoot him (your situation gets worse if he dies), you will be arrested for "abuse of authority", "shot a victim of Society, so comes the "Human Rights " and arrests you.
I'm amazed how you foreigners love Brazil so much.
Do you understand why nobody recommends immigration to Brazil?
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10-23-16 14:14 #1533
Posts: 133Immigration bureaucracy
The US has the worst immigration bureaucracy in the world.
Immigration employees are uneducated and rude.
Originally Posted by ExecTalent [View Original Post]
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10-17-16 15:21 #1532
Posts: 2278Depends
Originally Posted by You69Me [View Original Post]
For example: love the challenge of living in a country where I don't speak the language, think my paltry pension will go far because of the current exchange rate without realizing it can flip-flop (like the 1.55-1 days) and I will be left hanging out at Mabs all day with the other ex-Pats lingering for hours over the same beer, enjoy beyond imagination living in a country where it takes forever to accomplish what in most other countries takes hours or a day. Of course, there always is the old standby: need to escape the Allied forces because the war did not go exactly according to plan.
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10-17-16 02:08 #1531
Posts: 133Immigration Brazil
What is the easiest way to get residency status in Brazil.
Please provide as many options as possible.
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06-23-16 02:14 #1530
Posts: 1026Tourist Visa
Got my tourist visa today. Good for 10 yrs at 90 days / pop!
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06-17-16 22:18 #1529
Posts: 1026Originally Posted by ExecTalent [View Original Post]
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06-17-16 16:11 #1528
Posts: 2278There is always Colombia
Originally Posted by Rodeo9112 [View Original Post]
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06-17-16 01:42 #1527
Posts: 1026Originally Posted by Rodeo9112 [View Original Post]
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06-15-16 18:47 #1526
Posts: 62Gyms
Originally Posted by Rodeo9112 [View Original Post]
Cheapest gyms in Rio, with very decent, all new amenities. There is one on Rua Tonelero several blocks behind the Copa Palace. Easily your best bet.
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06-15-16 15:36 #1525
Posts: 1026Originally Posted by Sunset [View Original Post]