Emigrating to Brazil!!

gowger

Shag this recession folks, I'm off to Brazil to surf the rising BRIC economy!!

I also fancy starting an interesting thread :-)

Seriously, I'm probably moving there in a year or so with my partner who's from Rio. My plan is to to do a TEFL course so I can make some kind of living while improving my portuguese and looking for a more career oriented job.

I'm curious about people's experiences doing TEFL courses and moving to other countries, ideally south america.

I'm a software developer here, and I even have a mortgage, so the decision is not financially motivated to say the least. The house here would never be able to pay for itself in rent, although with interest rates these days it isn't far off. Never the less I think it's too risky to try and hold on to it. Opinions?

Any advice whatsoever would be greatly appreciated and I'll naturally reciprocate what I've found out for anyone else who is thinking about doing something similar.

If you think I'm mad, don't hold back, tell me why but try and keep it civil! :-)

devereaux17

great decision. in my dreams i wish i was a brazilian. its my favourite 'new world' country by far. its like the cool non-rammed down our throats version of usa.

Kevster

I spent two weeks travelling around there, but that's not enough time to see it all by a long way. I loved it, but you'd have to be living and working there to know what it's really like. You'll have to be prepared to receive less wages than over here, in general, and obviously your priority should be to pick up the language quickly. Which city/area are you thinking of?

spectre

Sounds like a great idea. I'm toying with the idea of heading off somewhere myself, hadn't thought of Brasil but it might be just the place. Is it much trouble getting visas?

Probably wouldn't teach English though. Any other ideas for work?

Kevster

Surely there must be some teaching English thing in Brazil? If not, why don't you consider Uruguay or Paraguay? Luckily, I have a friend in Sao Paulo who says that I can go over to see any time I want. For the moment though, I'll be emigrating to England in two weeks. Brazil is an amazing country... ...if you guys can get there, well done.

gowger

Sorry I neglected the thread for a while. It's too easy to forget about posts when you have a head like a sieve, subscribe to hundreds of other forums and news feeds and there's no auto notification of replies to you're posts.

I've found that it's not so easy to get a visa into brazil, but it's been getting better recently.

Seems like Sao Paulo would be the place to go for software jobs, which would be what I'd need to avoid throwing away ten years of career. My girlfriend is from Rio though and doesn't like Paulistos! They have fierce rivalry between the two cities, naturally, and she wouldn't like to move there at all. Sounds like a pretty insanely big metropolis, I even heard that those who can afford it travel by helicopter because the traffic is so bad.

Found the Rosetta stone brazilian portuguese CDs to be really good. they check you're acccent and everything. It's a Sao Paulo accent apparently, my girlfriend is disgusted :-)

carrickmilo

I'm thinking of Brazil as well. They found huge oil reserves off the coast and the econmy is on an up now with the Rio Olimpics its on evern more of a roll. I'm an architect, Ireland is so over for me.

I got the Rosetta Stone Portuguese language course as well, thanks for the info on the accent. I didn't realise it was Sao Paulo

seachto7

plus the women are savage looking

FortalezaOwner

i am thinking of moveing over to brazil to, have property over there so have one foot over there already, spent a few months over there and want to go back, few issues, liking insuring you can make money over there, as well as visa, how you getting around visa issue

FortalezaOwner

my girlfriend is from brazil so one way of sorting out my visa issue we been together for 3 years but not sure ready for that step yet.

Whats their immigration policy? How do their visas work?

karaokeman

I want to go to Brazil too:(.

Unfortunately I'm only doing my Leaving Cert this year so it shall be many years before I can make the trip.

I want to be a Psychologist so I will have to look up the jobs there.