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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We would have liked a Brazilian au pair this time around, but couldn't find one who was ok with our situation - small house, shared bathroom, no housekeeper.  We interviewed three that we really liked and all were very put off by not having their own bathroom and all three asked if we had a housekeeper and started distancing themselves after we said no.  We have interviewed probably 25 other candidates over the three years we've had au pairs and literally no one else was put off by these things to the degree the Brazilians were.  I have no idea if we just got the three Brazilians who expected to be matched with a family with a large house, separate AP suite, and a housekeeper, but it was very odd.  
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I would chalk it up to the fact that there is a big Brazilian network of APs and they know what to look for in a family and questions to ask.  They hear the horror stories.

The housekeeper issue is odd though.[/quote]

I don't know, some insanely high percentage of au pairs are German and none of our Germans had an issue with not having their own bathroom or a housekeeper.  And before I get attacked - our au pairs have no housekeeping duties, like not even children's laundry which seems to be very common, and we make that clear. So it's not like they think they'll be picking up the housekeeper's slack. [/quote]

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