I Tried Leaving Brazil Twice. Both Times I Came Back.

At 21 he flew to Brazil for a girl. Months later he was married with a kid. A few years after that he was divorced, broke, and couldn't scrape together the airfare home — and he didn't see Australia again for six years.

Two decades later, he's still here.

In the first episode of Letters from Brazil, Paul sits down with Andrew — an Australian who came to Brazil for love and never managed to leave. He's tried to go for good more than once, and each time he was back within months. They get into the years he was financially "trapped," learning Portuguese from zero, building a business from nothing with no CV and no contacts, raising a son across two languages and two cultures, and what it actually costs — emotionally and financially — to build a life here as a foreigner.

Honest, funny, and unfiltered: the bureaucracy, the "gringo tax," the isolation, and the warmth that ends up keeping people in Brazil for good.