Some people consider moving to Brazil, and many even make plans to retire in Rio de Janeiro, the country's most famous city.

SO STOP, and watch this video before you take any decision.

As a Brazilian, it pains me to make a video in a negative tone about my own country, but after so many questions about why move for retirement in Brazil or how good was the idea of retiring in Rio, I decided to speak about it.

There are, however, some better alternatives if you are keen on moving and living in Brazil. Discover them in this video.

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🔎 EXCERPT 🔎
This city is considered the 9th most beautiful in the world.
It has the most famous beach on the planet
Some of the most aesthetical people that ever walked on earth
Still… You should NEVER
EVER
Think
about
retiring in this place called Rio de Janeiro
Today I am going to tell you why
And it is painful to me to make a video with such a negative tone about my own country
If you check all our other videos about countries like Chile,
Uruguay
Argentina…
they have very positive tones
And for a long time, I avoided talking about Brazil.
But in our episode about the best countries to live in Latin America,
we received a few questions on why we didn't include Brazil.
Most of the problems from Rio de Janeiro that we will talk about in the next few minutes, also exist in other parts of Brazil
In different proportions, but exist.
Still, if you REALLY want to live and retire in Brazil, at the end of this episode I will tell you ONE OF THE FEW PLACES where almost NONE of the problems listed are found.
So let's start with the reason why you should NEVER retire in Rio de Janeiro (and nearly anywhere in Brazil, for this matter).
I will start with the LEAST bad of all of them, but which is already bad enough.
The PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
People from Rio will tell you that public transportation improved a lot since the World Cup and Summer Olympics that happened in Rio in 2014 and 2016 respectively