'Planning to move to Rio' Retirement  

Planning to move to Rio

Richard Calhoun (151.202.92.172) -

I will be retiring in several months and am planning to retire to Brazil sometime after the first of next year. A long-time lover (and collector) of Brazilian music, I have made several visits to the country in recent years to investigate the possibilities and after narrowing down my destinations of choice to Salvador in Bahia and Rio have decided on the latter. (As a resident of New York City for 40 years I just felt Rio had a lot of the same energy.)

With this deadline in mind, I have begun to study Portuguese seriously, put my co-op on the market and alerted my financial advisor of the need to convert my portfolio to an income producing structure. I should have a more than comfortable income, based on my own perceptions of the cost of living there. In addition, I am taking a course to get certification as an ESL teacher of Business English to give me a marketable skill should I find myself unready for full-time retirement.

However, I also realize that as a practical matter there are lots of things to de done, many of which I have probably not even considered yet. So I'm posting this in hopes of soliciting some helpful advice (both encouraging and cautionary) from those who have already successfully negotiated the obstacles and established themselves in paradise. In return, I can only promise to try to be as helpful to other prospective immigrants once I too have joined the ranks of US expats in Rio.

I can be contacted by email and would in fact prefer that to a message board thread. It would be a great comfort to me to be able to discuss this with someone knowledgable as to all the details (and pitfalls) involved in so major an undertaking. It goes without saying that I will be extremely grateful for any assistance offered.

Thanks

Richard Calhoun

New York City

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Comment #1 Kurt (58.28.159.25) -

Hi I am lloking gto leave New Zealand and live in South America is Rio a possibility I want tgo live on ythe beach and have a good standfard o living is it possible Kurt

Comment #2 Kurt (58.28.159.25) -

Hi Everyone New Zealand and Australia have become far too expensive to live in can some one tell me can we live a Gold Coast life style and better in South America for half the money Austrralasia has been shagged by wealthy Asians Yanks and Europeans its time to move out I hear this South America is good?? 2 things Climate Hospital may be 3 from my exp 20 yrs ago South America was a blooody dangerous place is it now ???? and wat about English Rates Electricity Housing living ONLY THING CHEAP IN NZ IS vegetables the rest is like living in a morgue and has to be one of the most boring un interesting places on Earth

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