Hi everyone would like to know more about Brazil

Hi Rob,

On behalf of everyone here at https://www.expat.com, welcome on board. I hope your participation here will be both enjoyable and informative.

To find out more about Brazil, your first steps would be to read through the postings with a "sticky" at the top of the first Brazil Forum page, especially A Gringo's Survival Guide to Brazil. Almost all of the information that you could ever possibly want will most likely be contained in those topic threads.

If there is anything else that you can't seem to find, then you can type in a phrase or keyword into the "Search the Brazil Forum" box, hit OK and you'll get a list of related topics.

If after that you still can't find an answer, then please post a specific question to the forum.

Cheers,
James
https://www.expat.com Experts Team

Brazil is a country just like any other developing world country...
There is a mixture of wealth and poverty , first world and third world ,sometimes side by side. The majority of the Brazilian population live along the coast which varies in degrees of tropical....the more North you go , the more tropical it gets.
I find Brazil quite European in someways.....many neighbourhoods in Rio and Sao Paulo states remind me of modern Italian city suburbs.

Other than that the weather is hot and sweaty most of the time , it has a varied diverse population and culture. There is crime , but it's easy to avoid as a tourist if you just follow sensible pre cautions ...I personally find Rio pretty safe for all the hype about how dangerous it is.
Portuguese is the Language and English is hardly spoken , it can seem really difficult to travel around and figure out whats going on if you don't speak Portuguese. In reality everything is actually pretty straight forward if you understand whats going on.
It's a fairly expensive country and it gets more African in the Northeast and more European influence in the South below Sao Paulo state.