On the plus side people are genuinely friendly (unlike superficial southern hospitality), and the women are hot.
Did you get deported to Brazil as punishment?
My best friend from HS now lives in Sao Paulo! The most conservative guy ever and yet he chose to live there. He was reading Ayn Rand in Jr. High, if that tells you anything. So I couldn’t see him selling everything off and moving to socialist Club Med, but he did. I guess when you have enough money to retire at 40, anywhere is probably a nice place. He abandoned the US in 2009 post Obama and has no regrets. Chatting online on election night all he could do was tell me “Told ya so”. He now has several hobby businesses, employs locals and runs a cash based/underground mini-empire, but mainly lives off his previous investments and sale of business here in the states. Pays zero taxes, but claims makes up for them in friendly bribes to friendly officials. The the Brazil way. He enjoys the freedom, the lifestyle, and yes, the women.
So, based on my very limited knowledge, Brazil would be great if you already have oodles of money.
“On the plus side people are genuinely friendly (unlike superficial southern hospitality), and the women are hot.”
Ha, true, can’t help but notice that even if pretending not to around the Missus. I only had a couple brief stays in Brazil decades ago when the business was barely off the ground, among my first trips outside the USA. Even then, and probably affected by my status then as an unmarried guy, I wondered if the gorgeousness of the women compared to the United States and most any other country could make up for all the flip-sides in Brazil. I’d heard about so many expats working there these days that I thought the flip-sides might have picked up, too, but it’s one of the places I admittedly know far less about. I guess people manage somehow.
Thanks for the details.
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