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Don’t take FIRE rules for granted, especially if you’re not in the US.
0 (0) So there I was… listening to an episode of a popular FIRE podcast yesterday and the topic of the Rule of 72 came up, and I had a thought.. The Rule of 72, if you’re not familiar, is the idea that you can calculate the number of years it will take a fixed…
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Starting to think in your adopted currency. Geoarbitrage lifestyle inflation.
0 (0) When you first move to a foreign land, where your relatively strong currency has more purchasing power, you feel rich. I covered this in article on Geoarbitrage. This leads to an interesting condition: Geoarbitrage lifestyle inflation. All of the sudden, instead of having 1,000 USD I have 5,000 BRL, and it feels like…
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Dog food is too expensive. Making Homemade Dog Food.
5 (1) Would you eat the same food for every meal of every day? What if it wasn’t even a variety of foods on the same plate.. like rice, beans, salad and meat? What if it was literally the same exact bite, every bite? That’s a summary of your dog’s culinary life. Perhaps you should…
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I bought BYD stock
0 (0) I take a fair amount of Uber rides. I would say 2 out of the past 5 or 6 Uber rides have been in a mysteriously futuristic electric car, which I found out is called the BYD Dolphin Mini. In both cases, we asked the Uber driver what got him to buy an…
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5 star habanero hot sauce recipe
5 (1) Hot and spicy food products and recipes are not all that common in Brazil. I have found that this fact comes as a surprise to many. Anyhow I am a lover of spicy foods, and while hot sauces are available, I decided to go to great lengths to make my own. You’ll note…
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Taxes part 1: Earned income
0 (0) It’s tax time in both the US and Brazil. so a good point to cover this topic. For US citizens, moving to another country usually results in dramatically more complicated taxes. Why? Well the US is one of only two nations in the world that taxes it’s citizen based on their citizenship, not…