The Name

Latitud8 is not a random number.

Fortaleza — the city where this site began — sits on Brazil’s northeast coast. The broader stretch of coastline that first drew me in runs up to around eight degrees south of the equator. Latitud8 is a nod to that geography. To the zone where this all started.

I dropped the E deliberately. Latitud is the Spanish and Portuguese spelling. It felt right for a site rooted in the region — quietly bilingual without making a song and dance about it.

Aerial view of the Brazilian northeast coastline curving toward the horizon, a dotted latitude line marking eight degrees south above the sea.
Eight degrees south. This is where it started.

The name belongs to a region, not a country. Wherever this site goes, the latitude shifts but the spirit of the name stays the same.

Who Is Behind This

My name is Keith. I’m Irish, and I’ve been travelling to Latin America regularly since I met my wife Steffany — who is from Fortaleza, Brazil.

That’s not a small detail. It means this site has access to genuine local knowledge that most nomad resources simply don’t have. When I write about life here I’m not working from research alone. I’m working from Steffany’s experience growing up in Brazil and across the region, and my own experience arriving with fresh eyes and a lot of questions.

Keith and Steffany standing at the Beira Mar promenade in Fortaleza, turned toward each other mid-conversation, the ocean and city skyline behind them.
Steffany is from here. I arrived with questions. Between us, we cover the ground.

Why This Site Exists

When Steffany and I started seriously thinking about spending more time in the region, I went looking for practical information online. What I found was a mix of outdated forum posts, vague travel blog content, and the occasional useful thread buried deep in a Reddit search.

Nobody had built the resource I actually needed. So I decided to build it myself.

Keith sitting alone at a kitchen table at night with a laptop open, a cafezinho beside him, writing in a notepad with a resolute expression.
The resource I needed didn’t exist. That seemed like a problem worth solving.

Every guide on this site is written with one question in mind: does this help a remote worker live here more easily? If yes, it’s here. If not, it isn’t.

Where This Is Going

The plan is simple: cover Latin America properly. One place at a time, going deep before moving on. A site that covers fifty cities shallowly is less useful than one that covers five properly.

Steffany and I are also planning to relocate to Brazil — and when that process begins, I’ll document it here in full. The paperwork, the practicalities, and the occasionally chaotic reality of doing something like that as a foreigner. No filter.

Growing up in Ireland, grey skies were my normal. Latin America was the opposite of everything I’d accepted as just how life looked. The people, the culture, the pace of it. Waking up near the ocean with the near-certainty of sunshine. For me, that shift wasn’t just appealing — it felt like the right way to live. This site exists partly because of that feeling, and partly because I wanted to make it easier for other people to find it for themselves.

Keith and Steffany standing side by side on a Fortaleza beach in early morning light, both looking out to sea toward the horizon.
Grey skies were my normal. They are not my normal anymore.
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