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About Ken Rapoza Cruz
Expertise
I can help would be travelers find places to go, help them decide whether or not they should book tour packages in their home country or wait til they arrive in Brazil, and other relevant info about the country and its travel amenities. General questions about Brazil and living in Brazil.

Experience
Ken Rapoza is a former contributing editor at International Living, a monthly magazine about travel and real estate. Rapoza has also given speeches about Brazil travel and real estate offerings at Int'l Living conferences in the US. He now covers Brazil for a major U.S. news agency in New York City. He lives in Sao Paulo.

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International Living, The Boston Globe, The Sun Sentinel, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal and many others.

Education/Credentials
BA -- Antioch College
MFA -- Vermont College

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Brazil - Living in Santos

Expert: Ken Rapoza Cruz - 11/5/2009

Question
Dear Ken
I am 26 years old and will be leaving and working in Santos in two months from now...I have been browsing websites abt life in BRZ in general and in Santos in particular, found some answers to some of the questions I have, and still looking for some others.
I have a question specifically abt rent in Santos, I have a budget of 2500 reais, wld it be enough to rent a 2 rooms apartment with nice facilities? Is it common to find fully furnished apartment or maybe kitchen equiped? If not the case, wld u advise to bring white goods from my country instead of buying them in BRZ? I have one more specific question abt food...Will I be able to find Halal food in BRZ?
Thank you very much in advance for your kind help.
Mouna

Answer
R$2,500 a month budget will be tough. But Im sure you can find a hotel flat for around R$1500 in Santos, fully furnished, with kitchen. Not a problem. Look up "flats" + "Santos, Brasil" and see what you find. I dont know of any there off the top of my head.

Usually these hotel flats are decent. Some will have pools and restaurants. Room service, clearning service. You have to pay extra for laundry service. The facilities will be a bedroom, bathroom and a small living room and kitchen. Around 20 to 30 square feet, maybe?

DO NOT bring major appliances into Brazil. You should use your Spanish banking card and buy stuff here on credit. That would be much easier.

Hmmmm....halal food. I dont know about that, especially in Santos. Sao Paulo, yes, but Santos. I dont know.

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