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Originally Posted by labiofus
Thanks Graham,
what areas are you looking at?
Honestly, I've only been researching for about a week and probably won't be ready for the move until late of '09. I've found several small "hotel" properties (7 to 25 rooms) that have me intriqued because they all have room to expand into a small resturant or bar/club in addition to the hotel.
I'd love to own my own little business as a way to sustain my income while living there. I'm not wanting to make a fortune on the back of the locals or tourists, rather, expose some of the nicer qualities of my born culture to people who may otherwise never be able to experience the "good" things in America.
I'm totally undecided as to whether I want to just buy a small villa out right and enjoy myself, or do something a little more on the grand scale and own a business again. Either one requires a lot of research on my part with learning the local laws governing all the aspects of business, building expansions, remodeling, etc.
Good luck in your search...
And thanks for the heads up Dotty...No offense but I hope your wrong and from my perspective I hope I don't feel it's expensive :-) Everything is relative to where you're coming from and where you're heading :-)
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Labiofus;
I'm american as well and been living in brazil for a decade. Brazil is NOT cheap. Boy would I love to have $4 a gallon gas.....gasoline here is $7 U.S. per gallon. I'm 42 years old and pay 415 reais per month for health insurance, and that's only hospitalization. The dollar is currently 1.6:1 vs. the real, so you can do the math, that's around $260 per month. A Honda Civic will cost you 70,000 reais, that's roughly $44,000 U.S. Electronics are anywhere from 2.5-5X more expensive than the U.S. and the quality is extremely inferior. Communications...extremely expensive, an international call to the U.S. costs around 1 real per minute including taxes, that's around 63 cents from a landline, cellular is another story and VERY expensive. I could go on and on, but to make a long story short, my life in Atlanta, Georgia before I moved to Brazil was cheaper and I had quality in the products and services I owned/used that in many cases isn't even available here. Brazil being "cheap" is a fallacy. You'll see for yourself.