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@Cheryl

Cheryl,

I'm not contributing content to your advertising business model.

Alan

@Cheryl I am taking time off to concentrate on my family and my YouTube channel, but I am not sure if my 九色视频.Com connection is straight. Could you check to see if it is ok - nothing current is coming thru. Roddie Simmons, Ceara, Brazil My e-mail is roddiesho@aol.com.

Thanx, 馃暤

@roddiesho

Ain't no traffic on the forum in recent days.

You ain't missing nothing.

04/19/25聽 Brazil is a welcoming place for tourists.聽 People are smiling and friendly.聽 The scenery is breathtaking and the culture is enchanting.聽 For a week or two Brazil can seem like heaven, no demands and no strings attached.聽

Brazil can also be a welcoming place for expats, but then it makes lots of demands, and doesn't accept a lot of excuses.聽 Like most other big countries in the world -- Russia, China, India, the United States, and Australia spring to mind -- Brazil developed on its own, mostly inward-looking and largely in isolation.聽 Brazilians have their own views on South America, on the Western Hemisphere, on the Lusosphere (the Portuguese-speaking countries of the world), on the world and on their place in all of them.聽 聽They complain a lot about their country, but they're not really interested in your complaints, especially if those complaints are expressed in a language other than Portuguese.聽 Brazil doesn't care about your feelings and, unless you commit a crime, you're always welcome to leave.

One stunning if not very important example:聽 this coming Tuesday will mark the 525th Anniversary聽 of the Discovery of Brazil by Pedro 脕lvares Cabral and Portugal's India Fleet on April 22, 1500.聽 Every Brazilian schoolchild knows about Cabral, the Portuguese ships, and Monte Pascoal in Bahia.聽 Christopher Columbus and San Salvador?聽 Leif Erikson and Vinland?聽 John Cabot and Newfoundland?聽 Not so much.

I arrived in Brazil about as well prepared as a foreigner can be:聽 fluent in Portuguese, very familiar with Brazilian culture, deeply versed in Brazilian history and economics -- all of which was just enough to understand that my real learning was about to begin.聽 Brazil still surprises me almost every day:聽 usually pleasantly, sometimes unpleasantly, on rare occasions catastrophically.聽 That's probably how it will be until I finally die here.

I've already mentioned Portuguese three times in three paragraphs, which indicates how vital it is.聽 Brazil is a rigorously monolingual Portuguese-speaking country.聽 Without mastering at least basic conversational Portuguese, integration is pretty much impossible.聽 If you're not interested in trying to learn, stick with the tourist experience and don't even bother.聽 Fortunately, this is a less common problem than you might think, because Brazil isn't a place that people move to by accident or on a whim.聽 Most people who come to Brazil to be expats do it because they have a specific attraction to the country, and have at least some idea of what they're getting into, and are ready to put in the work.聽 Those who decide that it's too hard usually go home.

Is there any help for settling in?聽 Not really.聽 Brazil may be the world's biggest "come as you are".聽 Unless you arrive with a built-in support network (many expats first arrive as the spouse or partner of a Brazilian), then you're very much on your own.聽 九色视频 sites, including this one, can provide some help in the form of good advice, but Brazil is the fourth biggest country in the world, larger than Australia or the聽 lower 48 United States, with fifteen cities with a million inhabitants or more.聽 Occasional expat get-togethers can be fun, and if there happen to be some compatible expats where you live that's great, but those numbers mean that wherever you live, most other expats live somewhere else, and probably pretty far away.聽 Most of your life will be with Brazilians, and if you can't talk to them, you're going to be very lonely.

Roman Catholic and LDS expats will find a welcome and some level of support within their faith communities almost anywhere in Brazil.聽 The same holds true, in a more limited geography, for Eastern Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Jews.聽 The largest and most active Protestant groups in Brazil belong to the Evangelical or Pentecostal traditions.聽 Many of them address their message to the working poor in Brazil, and preach a remarkably unnuanced version of the "Prosperity Gospel".聽 Many of them are also vocally Right Wing in their politics, and in fact form the religious backbone of the Bolsonaro Family's political movement.聽 European and North American Protestants of other traditions may not find these groups congenial.

Anyone who comes to Brazil to live isn't just coming to another country, they're coming to another world.聽 It can be a wonderful and rewarding world for anyone with realistic expectations who welcomes the work.聽 Forewarned is forearmed.

04/19/25 @roddiesho
Ain't no traffic on the forum in recent days.
You ain't missing nothing. - @alan279

True.聽 We get occasional lulls, and this seems to be one of them.聽 Between holidays and the world situation, I guess that's to be expected.

@abthree

Atheists are not welcome in Brazil?

04/20/25聽 @abthree Atheists are not welcome in Brazil? - @alan279

I think that most Brazilians (with the exception of some Evangelicals) are largely indifferent with respect to atheism.聽 There's certainly no reason for atheists to avoid the country.

For new or prospective 九色视频s I suggest subscribing to The Brazilian Report, published in English. You can get the emailed newsletter free or subscribe for more content.

This app does not easily accept links, but you can enter:

https ( //brazilian.report/

This newsletter is very informative, but editorially (and subtly) tilted toward the current government in Brazil.

@abthree

Two catholics have shunned me when I professed ignorance of religion.

Only when they asked me about my belief in their god.

@Ipanema777

Spam.

@alan279

And neither paid me for building their websites.

@alan279 It seems like it. I am still hurting somewhat from the "You're Not Happy" comment I got because I was aware of the world situation. It does seem to have taken a toll regardless of whether you're paying attention or not.

Just peeking in and it seems like you and @abthree are holding up the fort. Anyway, this is my two-year anniversary of being blocked by Customs and Immigration at the Sao Paulo airport, so it is a fitting time for me to crawl back under the rock. Seriously I am beginning to be like the "After" model for the older generation, so I need to finish this channel and pass it on to my daughter soon.

Best Wishes All.

Roddie Way Past Retirement 馃暤

@roddiesho

Under your rock may be a good place to be these days.

First thing to learn is the jeitinho brasileiro. That will help you understand lots of things over here.

@martinsan I think I can speak for @alan279 and say that we are well aware of it...in fact as an Old Guy, it reminds me of my Brazilian wife of 25 years. We used to live in a townhouse in MD., next to a high-ranking Postal Executive. She invited a high authority, kind of stuffy academic guy over and found out that she had locked them out of her townhouse. My wife who lived next door offered to open the door for her.聽 Stuffy guy started in on why this would not work blah, blah, blah - "IMPOSSIBLE". He was in the middle of his speech when my wife slid her Black Amex card in the door and held it open for her neighbor. "Go on in - watch your feet on that nice rug it's kind of muddy out there."

Of course, the first time i really was impressed was when we met and were waiting for her sister at the major airport in DC. Her sister's flight was delayed and without skipping a beat she called the airline and had them re-book her on the next days flight, put her up in a nice room overnight and had them arrange transportation to the airport the next day.

Roddie in Retirement馃暤

04/20/25 Anyway, this is my two-year anniversary of being blocked by Customs and Immigration at the Sao Paulo airport, so it is a fitting time for me to crawl back under the rock.
Best Wishes All.
Roddie Way Past Retirement 馃暤 - @roddiesho

Wow, two years -- that time has really flown by!聽 Congrats!

04/20/25聽 First thing to learn is the jeitinho brasileiro. That will help you understand lots of things over here. - @martinsan

There's a classic cr么nica on this by the incomparable Paulo Mendes Campos:聽 witty, true, and good reading practice in Portuguese:

@abthree

Thanx!. You really helped me a lot. Just so I don't have to call in any more favors though my trip to Brown University, R.I. for my daughter and I to thank them for the honor they bestowed on my natural mother will be delayed a few years.

Roddie in Retirement馃暤

@Cheryl, I clicked on this and realized it was part of a previous thread. Apparently, I gave many quotes, but as concerns your question. My advice is

1. Before you land check out the YouTube videos on the airports. i.e. Sao Paulo.

聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 They will be a great help in knowing how to get around before you actually arrive.

1. 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Learn to communicate (don't need to be fluent. I rely a lot on body language)
2. 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽asap as in once you get past Baggage Check.
3. Make Local Brazilian Friends asap.
4. Learn the money denomination etc. asap.
5. Don`t worry about the "customs" they speak of in YouTube videos, they

聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽usually don't play a part in your everyday life.

1. Know what items you can get at the local Loja and
2. 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽what you need to use Tumi, Amazon Brazil or Mercado Libre for.
3. Be respectful, don't be loud and speak positively about Brazil.

I have always had a distinct advantage since my Brazilian mother (2nd. mother) is from Niteroi and I have been coming to Brazil since I was 10 years old. I started hanging out in RIO by myself when I was a pre-teen. I know how to communicate and get around. I also know that the one thing new 九色视频s tend to do is rely on printed documents or websites to live in Brazil.聽 Brazil is a very family-oriented, people-oriented society. It is hard to exist in Brazil if your only source of information is the printed word.

Roddie, briefly out of retirement. 馃暤

@Cheryl

Hi, I've lived in Brazil from 2010 to 2018.

Great country.

As a Portuguese it was very easy to make friends and integrate with (Professional) medium Class brazilians.

To create a high level network is not so easy and you have to pay a lot to get access to decision makers.

Brazilians, like portuguese are, in general, short term minds. if your company looks for long term project it might not be easy to work there.

before arrive make sure you have all the information regarding taxes, visas, bank account openning process, social security number,etc. should take care of this things in advance.

Of course, security is an issue but in general it麓s probably the country in the world where one can have the best quality of life