Monday, September 14, 2009
Hi there!
Time for another update!
I am getting many more hits to the Fortaleza Adventure web page than, for instance, last year.
I think the main reason is that many more people are doing searches on Google and other engines for real estate here in Fortaleza.
I was thinking today how the world's perception of this country has changed since I first came here in 2004.
Then, when I said I was moving to Fortaleza, Brazil, the first question was..."where?" They simply had never heard of it.
Now, many more people are aware of Fortaleza. Much as I hesitate to compliment "International Living" and their newsletters for this, I think their marketing efforts on their own behalf have made a big eifference in the number of people coming here, mainly looking for real estate bargains.
The word is still getting out in North America, but I have seen more Canadians and americans here in the past year or so. The current clients Fortaleza Adventure has here are a Canadian couple who have purchased a pousada in Cumbuco, along with other investors. It's called Club Santa fe, but that may change as the ownership progesses.
The economy in Brazil is doing better than most in the world right now, assisted by the fact that this country is self-sufficient in almost all the things a modern economy needs like oil and food!
Seems to me i read somewhere that the growth rate was in the area of 4%. That's good.
The prices of real estate are going up and particularly as the World Cup gets closer in 2014.
There is also the possibility that Rio de Janeiro might get the summer Olympics in 2012, and there might be some positive fallout from it in that people get so see some of Brazil and might want to explore the coast.
I see Brazil now as THE place to be if you want to consider becoming an ex-pat.
The foto below is Thieny, her cousin Annete and your truly, in Pedra Branca, the small city in Ceara where Thieny's family are from originally.
Time for another update!
I am getting many more hits to the Fortaleza Adventure web page than, for instance, last year.
I think the main reason is that many more people are doing searches on Google and other engines for real estate here in Fortaleza.
I was thinking today how the world's perception of this country has changed since I first came here in 2004.
Then, when I said I was moving to Fortaleza, Brazil, the first question was..."where?" They simply had never heard of it.
Now, many more people are aware of Fortaleza. Much as I hesitate to compliment "International Living" and their newsletters for this, I think their marketing efforts on their own behalf have made a big eifference in the number of people coming here, mainly looking for real estate bargains.
The word is still getting out in North America, but I have seen more Canadians and americans here in the past year or so. The current clients Fortaleza Adventure has here are a Canadian couple who have purchased a pousada in Cumbuco, along with other investors. It's called Club Santa fe, but that may change as the ownership progesses.
The economy in Brazil is doing better than most in the world right now, assisted by the fact that this country is self-sufficient in almost all the things a modern economy needs like oil and food!
Seems to me i read somewhere that the growth rate was in the area of 4%. That's good.
The prices of real estate are going up and particularly as the World Cup gets closer in 2014.
There is also the possibility that Rio de Janeiro might get the summer Olympics in 2012, and there might be some positive fallout from it in that people get so see some of Brazil and might want to explore the coast.
I see Brazil now as THE place to be if you want to consider becoming an ex-pat.
The foto below is Thieny, her cousin Annete and your truly, in Pedra Branca, the small city in Ceara where Thieny's family are from originally.
