CARS: Costs of Owning a Car in Brazil

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Costs of Owning a Car in Brazil

Allied to the cost of living in some Brazilian cities, having a car in Brazil is much more expensive than it is in many other countries. From manufacture to maintenance, learn how much it costs to have a car in Brazil.  GO TO ARTICLE

COST OF THINGS: Panettone Price Comparison: Brazil x USA

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Brazilian Bubble: Panettone Price Comparison: Brazil x USA.

COST OF THINGS: Brazilian Bubble: Car Prices Comparison: Brazil x USA

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Brazilian Bubble: Car Prices Comparison: Brazil x USA.

This is kind of old news, but we thought it would be interesting to re-post just to show how ridiculous car prices are in Brazil. With inflation soaring and the Brazilian Real (BRL) recent depreciation, the price gap tends to widen. Original article here.

CITIES: Rio – Leblon: Exclusive Living in Rio | The Rio Times

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Leblon: Exclusive Living in Rio | The Rio Times.

COST OF THINGS: Gas and Ethanol

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Gas:  Liter: R$ 2.89   US$ 1.83 US Gallon: R$ 10.94   US$6.92 Ethanol: Liter: R$ 2.29   US$ 1.45 US Gallon: R$ 8.67   US$5.49 Prices nationwide – enter city in box at top of page

TRAVEL BRAZIL-Buses: Time Tables and Prices in English

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Covers most of the major cities.  Gives you an idea of cost and frequency.  Click Here

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The Big Mac index (via Brazil Global)

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The Economist’s Big Mac Index shows that a burger is undervalued in China, but overvalued in Brazil. “Since 14.5 yuan can buy as much burger as $3.71, a yuan should be worth $0.26 on the foreign-exchange market. In fact, it costs just $0.15, suggesting that it is undervalued by about 40%. The tensions caused by such misalignments prompted Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, to complain last month that his country was a potential casualty of … Read More

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COSTS OF THINGS: iPAD Launch in São Paulo

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Photo: Zanone Fraissat/FolhapressFNAC store at Morumbi Shopping this Friday morning.

Models with Wi-Fi:R$ 1,649 (16 GB), R$ 1,899 (32 GB) and R$ 2,199 (64 GB). Models with Wi-Fi and 3G: R$ 2,049 (16 GB), R$ 2,299 (32 GB) and R$ 2,599 (64 GB). DATA PLANS Oi: For now, the only one to have released the a plan is Oi, which will offer a data for 3G iPad. There will be two versions of the Oi Velox 3G: one at 5 Gbytes of data, for R$ 76.50 a month, and one of 2 GB of data, for R$ 59.50 per month. TIM,  unlimited data plan for smartphones sells for $ 29.90 a month for tablets and R$ 59.90 per month. The difference between the two is the speed – 300 kbps is the first and the second was 600 kbps. Vivo, a data plan for smartphones with 8 GB of franchise sells for R$ 99.95. In the course, the data plan is recommended for tablets of 10 GB, which costs R$ 199.90 per month.

DAILY LIFE: Buying Books

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Buying imported books at bookstores here are expensive.Buying online abroad and having them shipped by snail mail is also expensive. Now, we can buy via downloads off the Internet.  For me, the only way to go. I used to buy books on Amazon.com.   The books always arrived (took two months) and free of import tax.  However, the shipping cost of around US$25 for four to seven books was too expensive.  I stopped buying books from Amazon.com. Today, I installed “Kindle on my PC” from Amazon.com; I assume it is the same software used on their Kindle Tablet.  I went to Amazon.com, bought a Kindle ebook, paid with my BR credit card and downloaded (super fast!!) to my computer:  easy, efficient, super fast and less expensive! I don’t have a Kindle, IPad, Galaxy or other tablet, but to be able to buy, download on the spot and read any of the thousands of ebooks available via online stores is magic. 46 years ago in Brazil, I couldn’t even make a phone call to the next town and the nearest bookstore with English reading material was so far away that it it wasn’t part of our life.   (Peace Corps Brazil gave us a book locker. It had maybe 200 paperbacks.  Those books plus the BBC kept us connected to the outside world.)

DOING BUSINESS: The Cost of Doing Business in Rio

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The Rio Times

By Amy Skalmusky, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It’s no secret that some items cost significantly more to buy in Brazil then they do in the U.S. or Europe. In some cases it’s even less expensive to fly home to buy items to bring back, then purchase here. There are many global trade issues at play, and the recent stand-off over cotton is an example of how government subsidization, import tariffs and taxes play a major role in the price the end consumer pays at the checkout counter.

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Price Comparison – 2011 Kia Sportage « Eyes On Brazil

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• Price Comparison – 2011 Kia Sportage « Eyes On Brazil.

COST OF THINGS: Car – Novo Gol 1.0 72 cv-g / 76 cv-a Transmissão1 Total flex

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Base Price: no options or extras. R$ 30,880 US$ 17,645 € 13,426

COST OF THINGS: Sardines

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R$ 5.09 US$ 2.89 € 2.27 Company Site – English

COST OF THINGS: Peanut Butter

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R$ 12.79 US$ 7.29 € 5.71 Note: You always have to check prices at the electronic checker. Many times the check out price is more expensive than the what is marked on the shelf. Seldom will the error be in your favor. This happens with maybe 10 to 15% of the items.  Of course, you then have to go through the hassle of waiting at the checkout stand while one of the workers goes skating off to confirm the price.

COST OF LIVING: Big Mac Index

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The latest Big Mac Index from the Economist shows the Brazilian Real 31% overvalued compared to the US$.Brazil is no longer cheap in US$ or Euro terms.  Of course, “cheap” is relative. The best way to compared cost is to calculate how many hours you have to work in your country to make a cash purchase of product X and then how many hours you would have to work in Brazil to purchase the same product X. If your income is from abroad, then straight currency exchange rates will show you your cost of living. If your earnings are in Reais, then you should use the “hours worked” method.

The Economist Big Mac Index