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CITIES-Goiânia: About

9 January, 2007 by expatbrazil

Bosque Buritis Goiania, Goias, Brazil

Goiânia is a city of 1 million+ located 1,000 km Northwest of São Paulo and 280 km Southwest of Brasilia; the Federal Capital.

LINKS:

> About Goiânia Wiki

Posted in CITIES: Goiânia | Tagged Brazil, goiania, goias | 10 Comments

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on 18 July, 2008 at 12:43 pm | Reply Ron LaFleur

Can you tell me about the golf courses near where you live? Cost, accessability, etc… You have a very informative site-thank you. Ron
on 18 July, 2008 at 4:21 pm | Reply expatbrazil

Hi Ron,

There isn’t an operating golf course in Goiania. They started building one a couple years ago, but as far as I know, the project has come to a halt. Someone told me you could play a couple of holes.

Brasília, about two hrs by car, has at least one golf course.

I don’t know of any public golf courses in Brazil. I think they are either clubs or part of resorts.

http://www.golftoday.co.uk/clubhouse/coursedir/world/brazil/

ExpatBrazil
on 3 January, 2009 at 1:51 pm | Reply Nera Bianco

Greetings ExpatBrazil! I found your site via Tony and I understand you live in Goiania. We are coming to Brazil on a Fulbright for 6+ months and we have considered moving there eventually (we are from the US). We will be staying in Pirinopolis and Floripa most of the time and we’d like to get a car we can use. Is it realistic to buy a car when we arrive (early Feb) and then sell it when we leave (mid Aug)? Are there short term lease options? Would any of this be possible in Goiania, or would Sao Paulo be better, or ?

Thanks so much ~
on 3 January, 2009 at 9:18 pm | Reply expatbrazil

Hi Nera,

Everything here is complicated.

Buying/leasing a car is no different. You would need Brazilian driver’s licenses, bank account and so on. Just ain’t worth it.

This ain’t the USA. Suggestion..go native.

In Pirenopolis, you don’t need a car.
http://www.pirenopolis.tur.br/

Floripa you could use a car, but since you won’t be here that long…forget it. You will make friends and they will get you around. Adapt to the system.

Fulbright people should be advising you on all this.

What kind of Fulbright are you on? Objective?

ExpatBrazil
on 5 January, 2009 at 2:26 pm | Reply Nera Bianco

Thanks ExpatBrazil! My husband is a cultural anthropologist and received a Fulbright research professorship to study the Ayahuasca churches of Brazil. He’ll be teaching in Floripa (and hopefully Brasilia) and conducting research in other areas too. He’s working with other professional Brazilians.

We actually do need a car in Pirenopolis as we have been there several times before! Since we are not tourists in the formal sense, we like to get around and avoid the busy downtown party scene.

Plus we need to get to Brasilia…etc. and a car would be helpful with our 6 months of luggage, although we are pretty good and minimizing what we need!

We’ve rented cars for up to 5 weeks in the past, but a 6 month stint is something different. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. And if you are interested in meeting us for a coffee or something someday in Goiania, please let me know!

I have a background in tourism marketing and will be looking for ways to make myself useful while we are in town too

Thanks again ~
on 7 January, 2009 at 8:07 am | Reply expatbrazil

Hi Nera,

There is a post about an American who had has driver’s license “recognized” here in Brazil. But, on the other hand, if you only “borrow” cars, you can use your US driver’s license because you are not permanent.

Unless you have a CPF (like a social security number), you can’t do much of anything in terms of financial dealings…..like open a bank account, rent a house, etc. Of course, some things you can do here without it being official.

Do you all speak Portuguese?

ExpatBrazil
on 9 January, 2009 at 12:21 am | Reply Nera Bianco

Thanks ~ I’ll look at the post you reference. My husband does have a CPF and I plan to get one on this trip. We’ve decided we’ll probably rent cars unless we can find a longer term “lease” arrangement.

We’ve been told we should get and “international driver’s license”, although when Michael did that on a past trip, no one (i.e. car rental agencies) really cared to see it!

Michael speaks fluent Spanish and acceptable Portuguese, I speak some Spanish and I’m studying Portuguese (Rosetta Stone is a great program!).

Speaking the language seems essential in the areas we are staying.
on 9 January, 2009 at 6:57 pm | Reply expatbrazil

You probably could get by on your US license since you are temporary in the country..ie: like tourist especially if you are using a rent-a-car.

You need Portuguese. English is not widely spoken here; nor Spanish. Floria gets lots of Argentines so they hear Spanish there a lot. In our area “nada”.

ExpatBrazil
on 13 April, 2009 at 4:22 pm | Reply Hugo Santos

Is there a place where americans usually hang out in goiânia, or an american community or something, i have a 5 year old born and raised in baltimore, maryland and i m trying to find him some american friends same age…we moved here last year in august!
on 13 April, 2009 at 5:33 pm | Reply expatbrazil

Hi Hugo,

No American community here. The nearest thing would be some of the American missionary families that live here, but I have no contact with them at all, and there are not a lot of them either.

ExpatBrazil

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