Brazil is a great country with much diversity in culture, climate and life-styles. Even the major cities vary considerably. Rio de Janeiro is beautiful and culturally rich then there is the vast city of Sao Paulo which is the business capital. There is also Salvador, a one time a capital, that has much history, but we live in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais famous for the mines and coffee planatations. Belo Horizonte (BH pronounced be-aga) is a city of around 4m people and is at an altitude of about 850m.

If anyone reading this page is considering moving to Brazil and is trying to gather information then I hope I can help you. Now that I have been living in Brazil a year and I now have (or at least I think so) the complete set of documents, I hope my experiences can be of help to others. Please read this page for more info or check out other other peoples experiences at www.gringoes.com

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