Moving to brasil

Hi gablack,

If your wife's employer is going to foot the bill for shipping your things here to Brazil then go for it, otherwise you're far better off to sell everything and put the proceeds toward buying everything new when you arrive here. Shipping anything is extremely cost prohibitive. When I came here over eleven years ago a container was in the order of $11,000 so you can be sure that's gone up substantially. Also your things are going to be tied up in Customs for a good long while so there are some things you're going to need to buy anyway in the interim.

Unless your books are rare collecter items and first editions you will end up spending far more than the value of the books to ship them, it's just not a viable option. You can take it from somebody with over eleven years experience in this country. If they aren't then you'll probably be able to pick up many of them at used book shops (sebo - pronounced see-bo) here. They're everywhere and loads of fun to browse through. Prices are great too.

As far as small personal items (not too heavy) that can be packed in cardboard boxes, you can bring them with you on the flight as excess baggage for a small extra charge. This is really a good option for other things, but not for your books.

Just remember that here you will be using either 220 Volts or 127 Volts depending on where you live, so you'll either need transformers or hope your electronics goods are all bi-volt. The plug outlets here in Brazil are different than those in North America so you'll also have to buy plug adapters for many things.

Although what you bring may be ASA approved, that certification is not recognized here in Brazil. If you should have an electrical fire that is caused by something without an INMETRO approval you could find yourself looking at serious liabilities too.

Computers, notebooks, cellular phones, small televisions will all work here quite well so they're worth bringing as excess baggage.

If your art collection isn't too large I'd suggest removing the frames and packing the artworks well to ship as excess baggage. Frames can be purchased here quite easily, even rare antique frames.

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward – Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

Hi iam in the process of bring my stuff from england i own the container, ive had a price of £1650 to ship the container and every thing in side to Rio

Hi spanishpete,


On behalf of the entire Expat-blog Team, welcome on board.

Please once you've gone through this whole adventure with your belongings and they've cleared Customs, would you please either post a topic thread to let us know how things went, or PM me with as much information about your experience as possible. It will be of great help to everybody thinking of bringing their belongings to Brazil.

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward – Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

Hi thanks for your replay,
as soon as it gets here and gos throw customs
the stuff that coming is mine, my wife, and a friends,
my wife and her friend are both Brazilian and have been out the country for more then 2 years so all they need is a letter from the brazilian embassy to say they were out of the country for that time
and my stuff is all my engineering equipment for my business i would like to do here,
i have 2 1985 motor bikes that iam told i might have a problem with i cant see why, but i know its all down to greed with the costumes here,
i love greedy bent people,

Since the motobikes are almost 30 years old and would not be considered collector's items you might have problems bringing them into the country, but you will obviously have to pay taxes to do so even if you can. There are a number of restrictions and you can find out more information (if you can't read Portuguese then use Google Translator) by clicking on the following link:

http://estrategiaempresarial.wordpress. … s-antigos/

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward – Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

my wife is Brazilian and she wont help due to she dont like motor bikes , and thanks you for your help, i will have a look
Peter

Hi William is the Expat.com your web site, the reason i ask, I'm putting together a very basic classified website myself, and i was wondering if i could link this site to mine,
My site will be called The Rio Classifieds
i worked in spain for a time in the early 2000 and saw what went on over there, and don't want to see that type of thing going on here
i believe in treating people the way i want to be treated
the purpose of my web site is to try to encourage more english specking people over to brazil to retirer
and Expat.com site has lots to offer and good people that can  help
Meany thanks Peter Larkin In Iguaba Grande

Hi Pete,

No, it's not my site. I'm just a volunteer for Brazil, an Animator is somewhat like a moderator.

The site founder is Julien. If you wish to contact him you can PM him using that username. He's always busy, hopping all over the globe so it may take a few days for him to reply, but he will respond eventually.

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward – Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

Ok thanks
being completely thick, what is PM
meany thanks
Peter