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Some places..(others feel free to correct/clarify/etc.)
Florinapolis - beaches, european-looking people, cooler weather than most of Brazil, known for blondes...
Curitiba - often touted as one of best designed city by world standards.
Sao Paulo - major melting pot. Immense Italian and Japanese population poured into this NYC-like major metropolis with an already hefty mix of typical Brazilian mixes of people.
Rio de Jainero - arguable one of the most beautiful cities in the world with beaches and beautiful mountain scenery all around.
Salvador - African culture in every niche and cranny of the culture here...amazing Carnivals, and immense history.
Recife - skyscrapers meet beaches.
Fortaleza - skyscrapers meet beaches once again!
Sao Luis - reggae capital in a colonial city. Large city as well.
Belem - Mouth of the Amazon River with it's own unique culture.
Manaus - city in the middle of the Amazan Jungle itself.
Brasilia - Capital of Brazil. Far from the beaches, in a zoned car-oriented city 'of the future', as they say.
It depends. If I can live in a safe area, and had time to learn Portuguese, then the answer is yep! They have an aerospace sector too, and I feel that Embraer is being way too conservative in their willingness to challenge Boeing and Airbus. I think they could easily make a plane to rival their American and European counterparts.
However, I have heard stories of friends who have visited and don't know how safe the country is.
Hm, I wonder how long it will take for BRAZILIAN to reply and say "WHO WOULDN'T? BRAZIL IS THE BESTEST COUNTRY INT HE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I don't say that to be mean, I like Brazilian =D, he's funny in a quirky way.
Some places..(others feel free to correct/clarify/etc.)
Florinapolis - beaches, european-looking people, cooler weather than most of Brazil, known for blondes...
Curitiba - often touted as one of best designed city by world standards.
Sao Paulo - major melting pot. Immense Italian and Japanese population poured into this NYC-like major metropolis with an already hefty mix of typical Brazilian mixes of people.
Rio de Jainero - arguable one of the most beautiful cities in the world with beaches and beautiful mountain scenery all around.
Salvador - African culture in every niche and cranny of the culture here...amazing Carnivals, and immense history.
Recife - skyscrapers meet beaches.
Fortaleza - skyscrapers meet beaches once again!
Sao Luis - reggae capital in a colonial city. Large city as well.
Belem - Mouth of the Amazon River with it's own unique culture.
Manaus - city in the middle of the Amazan Jungle itself.
Brasilia - Capital of Brazil. Far from the beaches, in a zoned car-oriented city 'of the future', as they say.
I would love to live in Brasil, except for Brasilia, Sao Paulo, and anywhere in the Amazon.
It depends. If I can live in a safe area, and had time to learn Portuguese, then the answer is yep! They have an aerospace sector too, and I feel that Embraer is being way too conservative in their willingness to challenge Boeing and Airbus. I think they could easily make a plane to rival their American and European counterparts.
However, I have heard stories of friends who have visited and don't know how safe the country is.
Hm, I wonder how long it will take for BRAZILIAN to reply and say "WHO WOULDN'T? BRAZIL IS THE BESTEST COUNTRY INT HE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I don't say that to be mean, I like Brazilian =D, he's funny in a quirky way.
You're right.
Anything I say about Brazil, will be considered a biased opinion. After all, I am Brazilian.
However, I can say that Brazil is very different (for better) the stereotype created by media over the years about us.
As for violence, we have problems in some regions really, like all countries, but our government is working hard to reduce it to tolerable levels.
I love to visit but I don't think I could live somewhere so hot and humid. I love the culture, the music and the people and the Amazon is a wonderful , wonderful place to visit.
I am not so keen on the big cities which are either way too trendy and "beautiful people" or way too socially deprived.
The chasm between the rich and the poor is far too huge for me to be comfortable with it. Police corruption and violent crime levels is also something I would consider a turn off for a place to live in. If you are wealthy you can isolate yourself from it to a certain extent but I don't wish to be isolated from normal people and their lives.
I also find certain aspects of modern Brazilian society off putting such as a national obsession with plastic surgery. I have no desire to be surrounded by superficial vapid people. There is too much hedonism from certain quarters which maybe because of the weather come to the surface even more than in Europe for example.
That said I think Brazilian people are some of the friendliest and most gregarious I know and there are many appealing sides to this beautiful and varied country. Brazil is also a country to be reckoned with economically and is on the rise due to some amazing natural resources.
I will be a lot happier when there is more social justice ( especially for Tribal societies and Indigenous groups who are mostly sidelined for the commercial exploitation of the aforementioned natural resources ) and a little more wealth redistribution. Da Silva has made much progress in some areas but there is much still to be done and I feel he has been rather inneffectual in handling the endemic culture of police brutality and rampant corruoption ( police and the political elite literally getting away with murder).
Some places..(others feel free to correct/clarify/etc.)
Florinapolis - beaches, european-looking people, cooler weather than most of Brazil, known for blondes...
Curitiba - often touted as one of best designed city by world standards.
Sao Paulo - major melting pot. Immense Italian and Japanese population poured into this NYC-like major metropolis with an already hefty mix of typical Brazilian mixes of people.
Rio de Jainero - arguable one of the most beautiful cities in the world with beaches and beautiful mountain scenery all around.
Salvador - African culture in every niche and cranny of the culture here...amazing Carnivals, and immense history.
Recife - skyscrapers meet beaches.
Fortaleza - skyscrapers meet beaches once again!
Sao Luis - reggae capital in a colonial city. Large city as well.
Belem - Mouth of the Amazon River with it's own unique culture.
Manaus - city in the middle of the Amazan Jungle itself.
Brasilia - Capital of Brazil. Far from the beaches, in a zoned car-oriented city 'of the future', as they say.
Eight months a year in Salvador, 2 months a year in Rio, traveling the rest of the time between Florianopolis, Curitiba, Recife and Fortaleza.
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