Tag: Lifestyle
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Leaving Seattle for Blumenau, Brazil taught me that a smaller, walkable life can feel bigger, freer, and more connected than the sprawling convenience of the U.S. Discover the freedom of a walkable lifestyle abroad.
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Discover the Financial Freedom Quotient (FFQ)—the one number that measures your family’s real independence and shows how close you are to true freedom.
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Comprehensive guide to obtaining Brazilian residency—covering all pathways, costs, and timelines. Build flexibility for your family’s future in Brazil.
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Your second hub shouldn’t replicate your main home—it should complement it. Build optionality by pairing strengths: income in one, lifestyle in another.
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I’ve had this conversation more times than I can count. Whenever I mention what we’re doing—where we’re going, what we’re building, the options we’re creating for our family—I see it happen: that flash of confusion before the questions start. –> “Why would you go there?” –> “That country’s corrupt!” –> “What are you, a traitor?”…
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When I first moved to Latin America, I was terrified of buying a car. I’d heard the horror stories — sketchy mechanics, hidden liens, disappearing titles, expats stuck with lemons they couldn’t resell. The whole system felt opaque and risky — especially compared to the straightforward process back in the U.S. So I did what…
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The Morning Everything Stopped I made what seemed like a smart decision. Here in Brazil, my car can run on both ethanol and gasoline — it’s a flex-fuel vehicle. I’ve never bothered with ethanol before. I always filled up with gasoline because it was simple, reliable, and I knew it worked. But I kept seeing…
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The System That Taught Me Won’t Teach My Kids I grew up in the public school system in a small Canadian town. It wasn’t great, but there were good lessons being taught. I excelled in math and engineering disciplines — the kind of skills that got rewarded in the 90s and early 2000s. I could…
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My son doesn’t know he’s lucky. He just knows that in Brazil, soccer meant running barefoot through neighborhood parks every evening, the whole community cheering from the sidelines. He knows Festa Junina means dancing in a straw hat while bonfires flicker and the air smells like sweet cake and smoke. And this weekend, like so…
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A friend of mine has a daughter in high school who wasn’t connecting with her math teacher. Instead of accepting this limitation, she hired an english speaking Brazilian PhD engineer over Zoom—someone who genuinely loves math and charges what amounts to a modest fee in U.S. dollars. After a few months of personalized instruction, that…
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I did the math: 8 hours at work, 2 commuting, 8 sleeping. That left 4 hours a day with my family — one-sixth of my life. So I left my high-paying Seattle job and took back 40 years of my life. Now I work an hour a day from anywhere — and actually live.