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You should go to Porto Alegre-RS. I'm pretty sure that you will love there. It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state.[1] Porto Alegre is one of top cultural, political and economic centers of Brazil. Two Mercosul countries, Argentina and Uruguay, border on the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Has alot immigrants from Portugal,Germany, Italy, and Poland. The vast majority of the population is of European descent. I have alot friends from there and me and my husband definitely think in to move to POA ( Porto Alegre) someday. The quality of life is really good and the nightlife is pretty much better than another places around Brazil. Stop to think and go there. You will enjoy and alot people helps foreigner there because they understand english more than another people in another places in Brazil.
I'm brazilian and I know what I'm talking about.
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Originally Posted by Neuling
Sounds like you work for Porto Alegre's city marketing department
While Porto Alegre is certainly a good place to live, I would not want to live there myself, it is somehow not really Brazil to me, more like Argentina or Uruguay, too white
That's pretty much the exact reason I've never been interested in Porto Alegre. If I wanted to live among all European-looking people, than Europe or Argentina would make more sense.
I personally find the racially mixing of Brazil quite intoxicating and exotic. A Brazil without that, seems like a Brazil that would lose it's major allure for me.
NO.....watch the Simpsons "Brazil" episode........it IS true. Well, maybe not totally....but, some of it is.
Funny how that has opposite effects on people. When I saw the Simpsons "Brazil" episode, I felt immediate saudade (longing) to be back in Brazil.
I know it's just a cartoon, but seeing the mix of skin colors, even on a cartoon, and the way they exaggerate the people and Brazilian, made me want to just get back there!
But there is something just magical about carnaval in Salvador? Did I mention that you can just yank whatever girl you find off the street and kiss her? And if she likes it, she stays with you if not she just runs away or slaps you
I never experienced Carnival in Salvador, but by all accounts, I sounds fantastic, as most of the Cariacas (people from Rio) go to Bahia for Carnival!
But, having stayed behind in Rio for Carnival, I noticed that the mass majority of girls from around Brazil arrive in Rio just to prostitute themselves out for a few days and earn some serious cash!
In short, if you are kissing them, and they are staying with you, they are expecting some financial exchange to take place when they leave your place a few hours later!
Funny how that has opposite effects on people. When I saw the Simpsons "Brazil" episode, I felt immediate saudade (longing) to be back in Brazil.
I know it's just a cartoon, but seeing the mix of skin colors, even on a cartoon, and the way they exaggerate the people and Brazilian, made me want to just get back there!
OK, you can have Brazil.....I'll pass.
I have no desire to visit a country that resembles a scene out of a Mad Max movie.........just like I have no desire to visit Detroitbabwe.
I never experienced Carnival in Salvador, but by all accounts, I sounds fantastic, as most of the Cariacas (people from Rio) go to Bahia for Carnival!
But, having stayed behind in Rio for Carnival, I noticed that the mass majority of girls from around Brazil arrive in Rio just to prostitute themselves out for a few days and earn some serious cash!
In short, if you are kissing them, and they are staying with you, they are expecting some financial exchange to take place when they leave your place a few hours later!
That's pretty much the exact reason I've never been interested in Porto Alegre. If I wanted to live among all European-looking people, than Europe or Argentina would make more sense.
I personally find the racially mixing of Brazil quite intoxicating and exotic. A Brazil without that, seems like a Brazil that would lose it's major allure for me.
Porto Alegre and RÃo Grande do Sul are like any Brazilian city/state with all types of people. I travel there often and never felt like I was in Europe. It is an old port town which is why alot of immigrants arrived there, but there are still plenty of African descendant people who are from the region.
I'm surprised people care about these types of things- choosing a place in a country to visit based on racial composition, WTF.
Yes! Florinapolis!, I have to admit I have not been there, but believe I would love it. I have been to Rio, Recife, Bahia, Porto de Galinhas, Sao Paulo, Ubatuba, and Maceio briefly.
From, what I have been told I not only would love Florinapolis, but love the women there too!
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