Hi Jack,
yes. You want to buy one chácara or one yard with house or one farm or large garden in Brazil. There is also one chácara in my neighbourhood for sale.
I bought my chácara two years ago, it was not so expensive, relatively cheap.
For buy one yard, farm, house or yard you have to apply one CPF number, this is THE Brazilian tax number. Without this you cannot buy in Brazil yards, farms, cars, ships, airplanes and houses and cannot open one bank account. See also more about this on my website
Bananas Raras, this is also in English, but you do speak and understand German too.
I'm part time emigrant, always in the vacations in Brazil and still working in Germany.
To get one visa or residence permit for Brazil, you have to have one monthly income of 2,000 US$ in the minimum as one retired person to get one visa for retired persons (visto de aposentado) or have the minimum investition of 150,000 reais to build one business in Brazil. My Brazilian lawyer told me, that I can also use rental incomes from my house in Germany, but the disablity pension must be the greater part of the minimum income of 2,000 US$.
I hope that I will retire soon, one apply for one pension is already made and I was to different doctors, one doctor told me, that I could get one pension and give my job up. And it's possible that I will take one sabbat year, I was informing in talking with my personal chef about this. Or I will take one part time job, 6 months working in Germany and 6 months staying in Brazil per year. And with second incomes as book author (banana books (now are 69 pages of more than 200 pages ready translated to English , total 39 species and cultivars ready in English, still 59 cultivars and species are to translate to English)) and partner of Frutas Raras, now my wife has one new internet job at Tankauto, she could work in Brazil in the internet, this job can be made worldwide. Also the wife of my housekeeper went to the Policia Federal and the Brazilian police told her that it will take one long way to get one visa for me, I have to apply one visa at the Brazilian Embassy in Germany. If you apply one CPF to buy one yard or farm or one chácara in Brazil, you have to go to the Brazilian Embassy in Bratislava! The easiest way is the visa for retired persons. If I do have too few pension to apply, then one friend of the dad of my best friend could help me, he is growing exotic fruits (also bananas???) in Brazil, is former ship captain. He had also problems with his pension at the first, too few for one visa for retired persons, but he could manage to stay in Brazil for ever! The time will tell me!
Yes, Europe is the hell, Germany is for me the hell, too cold climate, no banana friendly climate, high taxes, bad gouvernment, islamic terrorists, problems with islamic immigrants, increasing war risk, increasing risk of one Third World War, missing rocket defense shield against nuclear weapons from Iran and Russia and more. These are problems which Brazil does not have! So I want to retire and emigrate. When I am in Brazil, I do feel much better than in Germany and Europe, one paradise. Brazil is more habitable than Germany for me! Germany is not habitable because of its climate, it is too expensive to heat during the winter, and the winters are too dark and cold for me, 7.5 hours daylight on 21st Dec is the hell for me! You are right! I'm like one banana plant. One banana plant needs tropical climate with much sunlight and much warmth all-year, the banana is my favourite plant.
Oh yes, the U.S. immigration laws make more difficulties than the Brazilian immigration laws! Foreigners have to consider very good before buying one banana farm in Florida! And it is important to inform much about U.S. immigration laws, tax laws and much more. Also about costs of housekeeping and other costs in the U.S.A. Surely it is cheaper to live in Brazil than in the U.S.A. Perhaps you need one U.S. tax number to buy the banana farm in Florida! But foreigners without residence permit can apply the CPF number of Brazil to buy one banana farm or one large exotic fruit garden with house, it is not difficulty but easy. And you have also to learn the Portuguese language. Are there language courses for Brazilian Portuguese in Bratislava? I do speak more and more Portuguese.
Best wishes
Joachim