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LOL... but the one 0.01% who were made a lot of noise about it :P! I would still go to Brazil regardless because frankly I have travelled to places that were suppose to be so dangerous and have crazy high crime rates and nothing ever happend to me so I am fairly skeptical about this kinds of comments about crime. Usually as long as your use common sense and stay out of higher risk areas things work out okay.
The data that I have is that 6.4 million foreign tourists visited Brazil in 2014.
0.1% are 6.4 thousand
From what I know, it's very unlikely that more than 500 foreign tourists were victims of any kind of crime in Brazil in 2014.
so, in fact it's less than 0.01% and not 0.1%
The percent is even lower than I said.
You have to be very unlucky to get robbed or suffer any kind of crime while visiting Brazil for a few days and not doing anything stupid like going into a favela alone at night....
LOL... but the one 0.01% who were made a lot of noise about it :P! I would still go to Brazil regardless because frankly I have travelled to places that were suppose to be so dangerous and have crazy high crime rates and nothing ever happend to me so I am fairly skeptical about this kinds of comments about crime. Usually as long as your use common sense and stay out of higher risk areas things work out okay.
Crime always get a lot of attention...
But in most places in the world the odds are low, if you use common sense, as you said.
Walking alone at night in areas that look deserted is not a good idea anywhere...
The data that I have is that 6.4 million foreign tourists visited Brazil in 2014.
0.1% are 6.4 thousand
From what I know, it's very unlikely that more than 500 foreign tourists were victims of any kind of crime in Brazil in 2014.
so, in fact it's less than 0.01% and not 0.1%
The percent is even lower than I said.
You have to be very unlucky to get robbed or suffer any kind of crime while visiting Brazil for a few days and not doing anything stupid like going into a favela alone at night....
I spent a lot of time in Brazil; Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Florianopolis. I have never been robbed, but then i try to dress and behave like locals. Having said that, i do have a couple of friends who have been mugged and even beaten. Not trying to bash Rio, but every single time i went there, i saw tourists crying because they had been robbed. Places like floripa are really safe but Rio is the most dangerous city i have ever been. Never seen so much violence anywhere else.
I work in Peru and in fact will be going to dinner tonight with a lady from Brazil, Sao Paulo. Most people that go to Brazil love it. However, my best friend on the project (from Chile) said his brother was robbed in Rio when he went there and he advised me not to go to Brazil. Even my friend from Sao Paulo says it is dangerous and you need to know where to go and not go. Florianapolis I've heard is much better.
I spent a lot of time in Brazil; Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Florianopolis. I have never been robbed, but then i try to dress and behave like locals. Having said that, i do have a couple of friends who have been mugged and even beaten. Not trying to bash Rio, but every single time i went there, i saw tourists crying because they had been robbed. Places like floripa are really safe but Rio is the most dangerous city i have ever been. Never seen so much violence anywhere else.
I work in Tourism area in Rio and can say you're lying. Tourists are hardly victims of violence in Rio. Nowhere in Brazil is really safe, but generally tourists are safe. It's true that they don't have the same freedom that they have in Switzarland, but who comes to Brazil knows it perfectly.
And Rio receives 1/3 of foreing tourists in Brazil alone (and about 10 millions brazilians from other states...), so it's the single place of most significance of the statististics of the 99.99 whole Brazil tourists that don't have one single towel robbed.
Numbers of criminality rates also show most of braziian big cities are a lot more violent than Rio and even São Paulo (General criminality, not related with tourists).
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I work in Peru and in fact will be going to dinner tonight with a lady from Brazil, Sao Paulo. Most people that go to Brazil love it. However, my best friend on the project (from Chile) said his brother was robbed in Rio when he went there and he advised me not to go to Brazil. Even my friend from Sao Paulo says it is dangerous and you need to know where to go and not go. Florianapolis I've heard is much better.
Much better in what?
I love Florianopolis, but it is a beach city that only worths during brazilian summer, everybody knows that without a car there you're you're nothing. Public transportation there is a totally crap. You' can't even compare both cities in cultural atractions, and many more aspects. Florianópolis is wonderful, but for sure can't compare with Rio. About violence, the difference is not that high, and Rio receive tourists all year long while Florianópolis just some months of the year.
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