30 TIPS FOR FOREIGNERS IN TROPICAL BRAZIL
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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This informative vlog is for expats either hoping to move and live in Brazil or those who are already here.
This is another vlog made up of video clips from our daily life in beautiful Bahia, Brazil. In July 2021, we retired from our lives near Washington DC (USA) and moved to live in Elci's native country of Brazil. Pepi was born in India and loves Bahia because of the many similarities he finds between here and his region of Punjab in India. During our first two years in Brazil, we roamed around many parts of Brazil in our 2008 VW motorhome van. During this time, our vlogs relate to our travels and experiences. In December 2022, we completed building our small and rustic bungalow in beautiful Bahia from where we vlog about our day to day life and our regular visits to Itacaré, Ilhéus and Itabuna.
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I'm an American who's been living in the interior of Brazil for about 15 years and agree with these valuable tips. Basically, keep an open mind and don't expect everything to be the way it was in your home country. You need to learn to adapt and be flexible. Relax and enjoy.
Exactly! That’s the key to happiness here! 🙌🏾 Thank you !!!
The tips you gave are not only for Brazil, but for any foreigner anywhere in the world. Brazil is a wonderful country with friendly people. We've been living in Brazil for 11 years and we can say we have no intention of returning to the USA.
Well done
Thanks !!
Agreed 100%. After 3 1/2 years of living here in Bahia, we too have no interest of ever LIVING in the US again. We will continue to visit the US every now and then but that is about it. Brazil living, Brazilian people, Brazilian food, the low cost of. living... all that has spoilt us :)
Thank you for that. I am in my early thirties and coming to Brazil next week and will try to settle there with remote work.
commented in earlier videos too. Loved how you show the nature and the local vibe. Obrigado.
if you don"t have a residence visa be aware because Trump can force us to retaliate
Wishing you a pleasant visit to Brazil. May you find exactly what you're looking for. If you drop all expectations from Brazil and accept things as they are, you'll be super happy !!! Enjoy !!!
These tips are good as well for Brazilians returning to Brazil after many years! This is still my dream!
Yes indeed! Brazil is such a beautiful and diverse country with lots to offer.
thanks, pepi, for your detailed information and your nice way to be. saudacoes da italia
Grazi Grazi Grazi.... Thank you for watching and your kind words
You are pure simpathy. Very good tips. But in big cities, supermarkets and shopping malls are open including on sundays.
Thank you for watching and for letting us know. Since we live in a fishing village in Bahia, I had not idea about life in larger Brazilian cities....
After 16 years here I couldn´t agree more. Nice video.
Glad you liked it Jake. Hope you're enjoying the hot weather and your beach buggy. We all should plan another lunch together.
I liked your video, realistic and respectful, as it should be. The part about getting to know small cities is important, cities like Rio and São Paulo do not reflect the culture or way of living of most Brazilians.
Thank you so much. My favorite memories over the last 3 1/2 years of living in Brazil are in small towns and cities.
as dicas de segurança servem até pros brasileiros kkkkk
Very wise. I am a brazilian that has spent a couple of years in the U.S., but other than that spent all the rest my life in Brazil. Your advice is pure common sense. I am from the far south of Brazil, near the border with Uruguay. Brazilian diversity is very clear to me. When I go from the south - where the majority of people are german or italian descendants - and go to the northeast or to the north, the cultural difference is huge. 100% of Brazil speaks the exact same language, but regional differences are bigger than in countries where there are several languages like China or India.
It is true, Brazil is a diverse and fascinating country, each region with its own unique characteristics! Thanks for watching and your remarks.
Agree with everything
Thanks !!
Look at you all tanned as a Brazilian should. hahahahah. Very good tips
Love the sun here in Bahia... Had to NOT be tan like a typical Baiano :)
você teve uma ótima ideia! parabéns pela aula!
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You can always block your debit cards. 😅 At least in Brazil accounts, you go to the bank app, enter the "cartão" section, click bloquear/desbloquear cartão.
When we decided to come to Brazil in July 2021, our USA banking people had advised us against using debit cards and that is the only reason we decided to stick to using credit cards. Things may have changed now but we are so used to using our credit cards, that we see no reason for switching.
@pepielci Understood. I think, from a purely financial pov, using credit is way better, obviously. 😅 But, for the sake of keeping more choices available, while still maintaining safety, I prefer to use NFC -- only.
Princesa do Sul is the nickname for my city, Pelotas, I suspect the bakery you show in the beginning of the video are owned by people from my town
That's nice to hear. Small world indeed.
Take care not to overgeneralize. In São Paulo, things are open Saturday and some on Sunday.
As for toilet paper, that's really disgusting, but most places don't have modern sanitation, but that will depend on each building.
I'd just add one more thing to your list: don't eat things with your bear hands. Use a napkin to hold your sandwich and chew with your mouth shut. To us, many foreigners don't seem to have manners at the table.
Sorry for sounding like I was overgeneralizing. Brazil is sooooo diverse and I should have mentioned that. Interestingly, here in Bahia, people eat like they came straight out of the Amazon jungle... zero etiquette when it comes to handling forks, knives etc. I plan to make a vlog just for our followers in Bahia and perhaps the Northeast who need to know, for example how sophisticated Europeans manage their forks and knives.
@pepielci Most foreigners tend to come to SP or Rio, so it's very common to see them impressed by our oversanitized eating habits. For example, here in SP,, though not in Rio, we'll eat our pizza with fork and knife.
Also, those who come to work find it strange that people line up at the toilet in the office in order to brush their teeth after lunch.
But Bahia is Bahia, the most African state in Brazil. It's very singular, and there's also a huge contrast between its little towns and Salvador .
But you have to consider it' doesn't represent, not even ethnically, the whole country. The whole state has 14 million people, which is much less than the metropolitan area of the city of SP, the capital of a state with 44 million inhabitants. So they're not statistically that relevant when it comes to portraying what "Brazilians" are like.
But keep up the good work and be most welcome to Brazil.
Pepi and Elci, I say this in gest, but why doesn't anyone ever tell visitors to Bahia there may be some upset stomachs of the first time eating food cooked in Dende oil? It only lasts for about a week for your stomach to get used to Dende oil, but...
Hehehehe.... That's a great idea for a future vlog - "The after effects of Dende oil". However, being that I am from India, I have not yet suffered from its aftereffects. In fact, I love the hot sauces of Bahia too; sauces that would give ordinary people a run for the toilet :)
If I can figure out the income part …..I’ll be there tomorrow 😂😂😂
@@rayzella13 USD1,500 a month and you’re golden in a small beach town efficiency ALL expenses included.
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I usually think people can skip this part. If one is not the hugging/kissing type, just shake hands, or say hi and be polite, make a Roman salute,, nobody will detest you for this.
Agreed. We've seen both behaviors and so it depends on the location and situation and how well the people know one another.
Thank you for sharing. I was born in Washington, DC. My wife is from Salvador, Bahia. We have a condo there. We are planning to move there ,within the next two years. Do you know a shipping company that you recommend to ship household goods to Salvador? If you have any info on capital gains, please share.
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Warren & Lena
Just a friendly warn.... I'm from Salvador and I moved out cause the violence was increasing like crazy in the past 5 years. Other than that, I have a condo there too and it's still my cozy place on vacations. Just be careful on the streets.
Thank for the advice. We live in a fishing village where everyone knows everyone. We only drive to the cities when necessary and that too during the daytime. By sunset, we're home and enjoying our quiet semi rural surroundings.... For us, Salvador is nice for a weekend visit to restaurants, malls etc... that's about it.
I lived in Frederick, MD for 35 years so know that area well. When we decided to move from the US to Brazil, we sold and or donated all our belongings and arrived in Brazil just with 2 checked in suitcases and 2 backpacks.... That's all we needed, so have no knowledge of shipping companies. I'm sure you can google some in Baltimore.... Capital gains laws are always changing so best to google that info. that is pertinent to today.
thanks .... (taken on board)
Glad you liked.
It's never okay to make racist comments. Fica a dica
100% accurate. Unfortunately, the world today is increasingly becoming racist 🥲
I also have been living in is it for 3 years and I disagree with a few of these points. If you want to have children, then the woman you date must scientifically be in the twenties. Just don't take them out of Brazil and you'll be fine be honest with them from the beginning.
The number one mistake I think people could make is trying to live in Brazil before having some type of understanding of Portuguese to me as the one biggest mistake.
Thank you for your clarification and your points are all well taken. Thanks again. Where do you live in Brazil ?
O papel no cesto é para não poluir o rio
Bom dia meu nobre; eu resido no Estado do Espírito Santo; a jóia esquecida do Brasil; quanto à dimensão do Brasil vc cometeu um pequeno erro o Brasil não é tão grande quanto os EUA sem o Alaska; é bem maior do que o Lower os 48 Estados contiguos; tão grande que se juntar boa EUA; França; Grécia e Luxemburgo não chega ao tamanho do Brasil; pesquise por favor ❤😂😮
Some of these are pretty mild in consequence, like speaking loud english. Also, most of the security tips are good for tourists everywhere. If you go around Romania or some places in Europe flailing around the fact you're a touristyou're getting taken for a ride there. So just watch out a regular ammount.
The dangerous thing lately is that you go in weird places that drug traffic has taken over, so be mindful not going in slums without knowing people in there or knowing what you should do to go in.
Also, racism and nazisms are crimes in Brazil, so if you're one of these things, please don't come.
We live in a fishing village so our semi rural life is quite mundane compared to those living in cities. We rarely visit our surrounding cities and when we do, we're back home to our compound by sun set. Thanks for your advice.
From 13 minutes onward it became a little bit schizo until tip 25 hits. Lol
You tried to add some b-roll to the video to add some flavour but didnt remove the audio of those videos.
Here is what really happened and I had to find a way to fix it while editing. My camera ran out of battery at around the timeline where I added B-roll.... Then, the section that follows the B-roll was filmed using a fresh new battery. However, the audio for one of two of the tips was missing since the battery died. So I re-recorded that while editing at home and covered my visuals with B-Roll.... must have forgotten to adjust the audio gain on the B-Roll..... It's hard when you do everything alone.... Plan a vlog, film the vlog, edit the vlog, create a thumbnail, post the vlog, promote the vlog etc etc etc.... :)
The term expat is irritating a lot of people because reminds us of the colonial times, it is typical for American and British to use it but it is outdate and irrelevant
@@thoughtsmadereal Obg. Whats a term you suggest ? - Pepi 🤗
@@pepielci I already said it
You immigrated to Brazil so you are an immigrant. Don't worry that term is n to a problem in Brazil. Nobody is ashamed of using it
@@thoughtsmadereal You didn't. You argued that "expat" is outdated but didn't offer an alternative word that'd be considered more adequate.
Caga-regra. Vai arrumar o que fazer.