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Wise will tell you the fees before you make a transaction. Today, Wise says the exchange rate is 1 USD = 5.3169 BRL and 1,000 USD will buy me 5.255,23 BRL, with fees of 11.59 USD. - @alan279 The Western Union app also shows you how much ... Read More

@Kurterino What is the cost of your transactions? - @alan279 I don’t know how to break it down, as in who (Western Union and NuBank) charges how much, but on my last transaction (about 200 US$), I received about 5% less on my Pix account than ... Read More

Western Union accepted my Pix key for my Nu account, I didn't complete the transfer, but WU verified my Nu account number. If you'd like me to test this transaction, I can try it, but it may take days to complete. My first WU transfer took a week. - ... Read More

@Kurterino If you can get a Nu account, can you get a Pix key and do an international transfer to the Pix key? Just a thought. - @alan279 How would that work, without an IBAN number? If I want to make a transfer to an account in another country ... Read More

@Kuterino So here's the question i searched on: "Quais os bancos onde eu posso abrir conta sem comprovante de residência?" And the response surprised me: "Bancos como InfinitePay, Banrisul (conta digital) e C6 Bank (conta no exterior) ... Read More

09/13/25 The one thing I don’t understand is utilities: there was no electricity nor running water until about 5 years ago, now we are connected, however nobody here has to pay for it. As far as I understand, the city (village) is footing the ... Read More

09/13/25 As far as I know, I won’t be able to open an account with banks like Banco de Brasil, unless I have a document with my address on it, and since I live in an invasão, I don’t have anything like that. - @Kurterino You do ... Read More

@abthree As far as I know, I won’t be able to open an account with banks like Banco de Brasil, unless I have a document with my address on it, and since I live in an invasão, I don’t have anything like that. So for now, I’ll ... Read More

Western Union account verified. I now have two US bank accounts, two Brazil bank accounts and Wise and Western Union for international transfers. Thanks! - @alan279 Related question: are there bank accounts that have an international account number ... Read More

The trike doesn't do soft sand well at all. My beach is very wide at low tide. It's smooth, effortless cruising for five miles. And there is no beach at high tide. - @alan279 I thought so. Where I am, even my skinny dog leaves deep footprints ... Read More

@Kurterino Triciclo praiano fat by Dream Bike in Sao Paulo. https://www.dreambike.com.br/todos-prod … chas-preto - @alan279Thx. I’m surprised that this working, is the sand particularly dense (hard) where you are using it? I doubt that ... Read More

@alan279Can you post a link with a picture? Or a link to a shop who sells these things? I can’t really imagine how a pedal-powered vehicle could work on the beach, that’s why I would love to check it out. Read More

I got a pair last year, from a shop named Oticas Sucesso. I’m about 30 minutes south of Salvador, I don’t know if it was an independent shop or a chain, and I also forgot the price, but I think it was around 800 Reais. Not cheap, but not ... Read More

I’m using (or have been using) Wise too, but once I had a weird problem: they made an error and executed a transfer twice, and once they noticed, they sent me a message that I had to approve an additional charge on my credit card, in order to ... Read More