We're an american family with five kids and
we've been living in brazil for about four and a half years now just about every single
brazilian we meet asks us the same question what are you doing here? In this video
we will be answering this question with eight shocking truths make sure to watch till
the end because number seven is my favorite. Before we jump in don't forget to like
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we always put english and portuguese subtitles on all of our videos you can turn those on
in the video settings in youtube. Number one why do we live in brazil? Because it is
the most beautiful country in the world! Number two, the brazilian people are very
kind warm and loving people uh one of the greatest things about the people here in
brazil is that they're open and you get to know them very quickly and very easily uh i
also like the the kisses the hugs and kisses it's a very touchy uh culture and and
they love to give the hugs and kisses. Which is a bit different from americans because
we like to shake hands but man americans need brazilian hugs it's so good. There's lots
of touch lots of feeling it's a it's a very intimate culture and that's one of the great
things that we love about it it's also a family-oriented culture where the people
are are very close knit with their family they don't have very many kids like
one maybe two children per family but it's uh they're they hold their kids and
their family very close to each other Number three, our kids are bilingual which
is amazing that was a big goal for us that was something that was really important living
in another country we wanted them to learn the language and there's no better way to do that
than to actually live in that native environment so our kids are fluent in Portuguese that's
been an incredible opportunity for them and Portuguese is very latin so it's a
great base for learning other languages in the future. Brazil is the largest country
in South America and the most populated country and because it has the most people living in
brazil out of all the those in South America if you speak Portuguese you can do very well in
business and communications here in South America Number four, free public health care health care
in the United States is crazy expensive and it's free here in Brazil for brazilians permanent
residents for even travelers if you're passing through Brazil you have access to free health care
which is incredible, so you have the option of choosing private care and finding private doctors
for things that you need and sometimes that is a good and better option it just depends on what you
need and your preferences and that does cost you out of pocket but it's a fraction of the cost
cheaper than the United States. For example uh before we moved to Brazil i think it was the day
before Maycee, she broke her arm and we didn't have insurance in the United States so we took her
to the emergency room we waited at the emergency room they gave her an x-ray and afterwards they
gave her a brace they didn't even put her into a uh into a cast and they said uh come back in
a week to to have a checkup we couldn't come back in a week because our flight was the next
day we got on the plane we flew to Brazil uh a few months later a few weeks later we got a
bill in the mail for six thousand dollars just for an x-ray and a sling for her arm nothing else no
other care was provided and here in Brazil, Maycee has also broken bones and she and we've taken her
to the public hospitals and we go in we have to wait a long time that's true uh but you also have
to wait a long time in the United States so we waited a long time they they put us through gave
us an x-ray and then they put a cast on her right right then and there after they saw what was wrong
and it was free we didn't have to pay anything we've also paid for private health care here in
Brazil and it's pretty good it's it's inexpensive relatively and you go in and you sit down with the
doctor and they spend the entire hour sitting down and chatting with you to see what's wrong to see
how they can help and they really get to know you in the united states it's uh 10 minutes it's it's
in and out it's a as quickly as they can possibly get you in and out and you don't you don't feel
like you have that connection with the doctors in the United States as you do here in Brazil and
they they ask you to come in for a follow-up visit and and that's included in your in your first
visit so we use a combination of private health care and also the pro the public health care here
in Brazil. This is kind of a hot topic so let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comments
about your experiences with brazilian healthcare. Number five, cost of living
in brazil is very affordable! We live in a very nice home we eat very well
and we we put our kids through homeschooling, private schooling, we have our own teacher and all
of this is very affordable and we could not live we could not have this lifestyle the same
lifestyle that we have now in the United States so we really enjoy the elevated lifestyle that
we live here in Brazil I would say that our our rent is for sure less than half of what we'd be
paying in the United States and we wouldn't have all the luxuries that we have here as well so
there's actually a lot of places in Brazil that are cheaper than Rio de Janeiro which is where
we live so leave in the comments where's the best place to live in Brazil is it the north the
south where's the cheapest place to live because even though we live in Rio de Janeiro which is one
of the most expensive places to live in Brazil and in South America it's still a lot cheaper than
the united states so what are your thoughts. One of the great things about living
here in Brazil is the the cost of food the cost of food here is relatively inexpensive
the prices have been going up because of inflation and other things but it's it's inexpensive uh you
can buy a lot of food a lot of fresh organic food uh when we go to the grocery store our
cart is mostly filled or halfway filled up with fresh produce and and vegetables
and fruits it's a beautiful thing to see. Number six, exposing our children to a new
culture. Brazil is an extremely diverse nation and the difference between just traveling to
Brazil and living here is that you actually really really get the time to develop relationships
and spend time with people who look different, speak different, have different traditions than
you and you really really get to not just see it but really experience it and and grow to love
people who are different and and get used to being around differences and and and how
that makes you flexible and welcoming and it becomes like a way of life
just like accepting different people. Brazil is a gigantic country and it
seems like there are different countries within the country of Brazil for example in in
Salvador there's a certain lifestyle a way of living and if you go from Salvador
up to Aracaju for example the the accent is different the the influence on the
culture is different the food is different you can you can feel a big difference and it's a
relatively short distance also from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo you can tell the difference in the
accent the food the way people live the lifestyle it's it's uh it's like two different countries
from rio de janeiro to São Paulo we haven't gone to the south of Brazil yet but we know that
there's a very large european german influence in the south of brazil and so all wherever you
go the different regions of Brazil it's you you meet different types of people different cultures
different food and it's a beautiful thing to see. It's really a great thing to be living
here because we really get to spend time doing it not just passing through
for a few days but to really sit enjoy soak up the culture soak it up really soak it up
and i think that makes a really big difference in our lives and particularly in the lives of our
kids because they're growing and learning how to interact and appreciate people and
it makes them so much more flexible. Exposing our children to a new culture helps
dispel negative stereotypes and personal biases about different groups in addition cultural
diversity helps us recognize and respect a different way of life that are not necessarily
the same as our own so that as we interact with others we can build bridges of trust
respect and understanding across cultures. Number seven, it is affordable to have hired
help at home. This might seem like a simple thing but it is a game changer for me we are
able to have a full-time maid here in Brazil. Our maid cooks breakfast and lunch, she does
all the laundry and she totally cleans the house scrubs the floors cleans the bathroom all that
hard work we have help with and you parents out there know how much work it is to care for your
home and family and to have help with that is amazing. It is a game changer it really frees up
particularly my time to do the things that I enjoy to it takes just a lot of stress and time
off my plate it allows me that freedom to be creative do things that I enjoy to work on
and improve our business, to go on dates to just enjoy life a lot more without all the constant
stress and pressure of taking care of your home. So for me it has really elevated our lifestyle
by having all that support at home and i wish we had lived here when my kids were babies because
that was a lot of work. In Brazil you can have a maid, a gardener, a pool guy, a handyman,
whatever you need it's it's very affordable in the United States okay so. And it's
common. Yeah it's very common here very very very common everybody has some form
of help whether it's full time or one day a week it's easily accessible and yeah it's very
common in the us it's culturally not common and even like wealthy people don't have a maid
because in Brazil for a maid it's about 10 to 20 a day depending on where you live for the same
service in the United States it's going to run you 150 to 250 a day to have someone cleaning
your house and that doesn't include cooking food or anything like that. So to me it is a
luxury that I love and appreciate um our maid really makes my life easy and I appreciate her,
so for me that has been a huge game changer and has really elevated our lifestyle is having all
this support at home especially with a big family. Number eight, the business opportunities here
in Brazil are amazing! We came here to Brazil we opened up a trampoline park called
big jump usa we have multiple locations here in Rio de Janeiro and it is fantastic we
love it it has afforded us great opportunities and it's helped us to meet a lot of different people
it's not easy to do business here in brazil but that's almost a given but if you're willing to
persist and and make it through those hurdles and those obstacles i think that you can you can do
very well in business there are lots of people who are unwilling to uh to go through those obstacles
and that's why there are opportunities in Brazil. As foreigners there are some added challenges
we had to learn the laws labor laws accounting, so if you're going to do business here you need a
good team of lawyers and accountants that you can trust because there's no way to know it all,
and you do have to get used to a different business culture but again there is a lot of
opportunity here especially in our line of work which is the family entertainment industry um
it's that field has a lot of opportunity in it and brazilians love to have fun, they love
to be with their family ,we have party rooms so we've got a good business model that has
really worked well in Brazil and it has created freedom opportunity, we have since we're
business owners and we homeschool, we can travel a lot and experience more of Brazil, we
get to meet a lot of really cool people and it has really enriched our experience here
and like my husband said it hasn't been easy, it's not an easy thing to do whether it's
learning Portuguese to communicate well in your business professionally or figuring out all
of the laws there's a lot to learn but again we you know, we're willing to take on the challenge
and do what it takes and we're willing to do things that people aren't and so that's put
us in a unique situation where we've had a lot of success because there's not very many
trampoline parks at all here in Brazil so it's been an exciting adventure and one that has been
worth it we don't want to sugarcoat it and say that you know it was a piece of cake because it
wasn't but it was just really worth it for us. One of the keys to success here in Brazil is
building up a network of people that you can trust. Once you find those people that you
can trust you hang on to those people you take care of them very well so that you can use
them again and again to build up the business. These top eight are just a few of
our favorite reasons that we live in Brazil we could go home to the states at
any time we choose to live here we choose to grow our business here in Brazil because
it gives us such a wonderful life and so many rich experiences and opportunities so
thank you for watching this video we hope you love Brazil as much as we do we hope that you come and
visit and maybe move here see you next time, bye.
