If You Could Do You Would Live In Brazil

What do you know about Brazil?

I'm brazilian and :We speak portuguese (not spanish).Our borders are open to every one, so here (mainly in São Paulo) you can find alot of people from Japan, Angola, Bolívia, descendent of Italians, Spanishes, etc.Our language is mainly influenced by french, spanish and english.We have one of most democratic way to get into university.We start to learn english on public school around 11 years old, but it isn’t good enought to make most of us fluent. On the other hand, the north american and english culture (music, tv series, movies, theater, etc) are strong in our country.Brazil is a really big country. Our fame is supported by our bad education, our nature, carnaval and violence but :USP and Unicamp, for example, are both really good centers of research and usually work together with another big universities from other countries, like French, Swiss, and USA and another centers of research like CERN. Fortaleza is one of our biggest center of students who goes for internacional science olympiads and some of them gets into Ive League universities. There is an project called Fundação Estudar on internet that shows opportunities for theses students.Yes, our nature is large, but it isn’t all. São Paulo is one of the biggest cities of the world, sometimes compared with New York and nowadays shines more at night than Paris. We have indiginas, amazonic florests, marshlands, an amazing biodiversity, by we also have fancy shoppings, comercial centers, skyscrapers, business centers, and etc. It depends of where you are. Some of us never have lived out of big cities and some others never have ate at McDonalds.Carnaval is really strong in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, but not every one likes it and not every state enjoy it.We have states and cities with really high HDI ( Distrito Federal has 0.824; São Paulo has 0.783; Santa Catarina has 0.774 - 2010 data)

How do people live in Brazil?

This is an impossible thing to answer.The same would go to “How do people live in Denmark?” or “How do people live in China?” or “How do People live in Slovakia?”These are all countries with millions of people, so you are bound to have millions of answers.We all live basically in the same way. We wake up, brush our teeth, go to work, spend the day there, get back home, put your kids to sleep, get some rest and repeat everything the next day.Brazil is among the most unequal countries on Earth, and that means that a handful of moguls have as much money as half of our population. We have a huge mass of people living on the edge of the poverty line. But we also have millions of people in the middle class and thousands of stupidly rich people.And where extremely poor, middle class and rich is concerned, we’re not that different from the people of these social strata anywhere else on the planet. Our extremely poor could do perfectly well in India or Bangladesh, and our filthy rich probably spend their vacations on the French Riviera or on the coast of Italy - with other rich people from around the world.Sure, countries in different levels of wealth and equality will treat their people better or worse depending on the economic situations and political scenario (laws, healthcare, security, etc) - but the way people live their lives, I’m pretty sure is not that different everywhere.Poor is poor, extremely poor is extremely poor, middle is mddle and rich is rich. Do we have more poor people than the average country? Yes we do. But you don’t have to look here specifically to see “how poor people manage to get by”. Just take a look around the world and you’ll see people managing “to live” in much about the same way everywhere, depending of course on the resources they have available.

What are some good and safe regions to live in Brazil?

Brazil is huge, is anywhere really an option for you?If you don't need top infrastructure for a home office, for example, most states will have really small cities that are still safe, everybody knows each other, police work works … which state? Depends on the life you want. Country life: Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais are two that I know and have really nice small towns. More Europe style go to mountains in south states like Rio Grande do Sul or Parana, beach somewhere more south will be safer although you still find some remote places northeast that are safe. I have never been on any North state, couldn't say anything but stereotypes we have.If you need to be near big cities the discussion goes beyond safety and you should provide more details on lifestyle and requirements.Although we don’t have the top worst cities in the country, I would say that the odds of choosing Southeast states like Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Espirito Santo are against you on the safe requirement.I agree with the answer that safe is a matter of behavior more than actually a place. Although life sometimes require from you unsafe behaviors like comute places and times or leaving in a not so secure city.

Why do some people not like Brazil?

Well, i believe we cannot find absolute truths about why someone likes os dislikes something.Liking is an intrinsic action, meaning i may like something for the same reason you may dislike that same thing, or that we like the same thing but for completely different reasons.As an example, i really like hot weather (32ºC/~90ºF) which make me a guy that likes beaches. Well, i know people that like cold weather (10ºC/50ºF) but also likes beaches, and people that likes hot weather but dislikes beaches because "it's sandy" (yep, they exist and are out there).Now that we stablished that nothing is more personal that liking or disliking something, we can continue.Probable dislike list: prejudice - don't know, never went, never met and still don't like it.discrimination - people look at numbers and statistics and say it's not a good fit for themHates hot weather/Likes cold weather - In the winter we easily have 25ºC/77ºF in the majority of the country, with lows of 15ºC/60ºF (if it comes to 10ºC/50ºF or less we don't go out of the house/bed) and, as of the time of writing, in the spring we are having official temperatures of 40ºC/104ºF and unofficial temps of 46ºC/115ºF. And that in the spring, imagine how our summer will be. Hates football (soccer) - We are crazy nuts about football that americans dare call soccer, and i still don't know why. It's all year long, except december and first half of january; this is the time where we watch junior football.Tourist disguised as tourist - Ok, in Brazil you look Brazilian no matter how you look like. We, generally, like to mix, generally. So, here you'll find germans, africans, latinos, turkish like, italians, japanese, everything in the between AND all mixes of them. But we can still know if you're Brazilian by the look in your eyes. So, if you're a tourist and don't have any Brazilian friends the odds are you'll get robbed, and that can lead you to hate Brazil.That's for non-BraziliansFor Brazilian that hates Brazil, Gustavo de Luca's answer is pretty spot on.

Do you regret moving to Brazil?

I have lived in Brazil on and off since 2005. I moved to Brazil permanently in 2015 and bought my house. I have lived in Passos, Minas Gerias. I have lived in the Moema area of Sao Paulo. I have lived in Florianopolis in a small fishing village called Barra Da Lagoa (Probably my favorite place to ever live in the world). Today, I bought my home in Pires do Rio, Goias. My wife’s family lives here so it was the best place for us to settle with kids.In all of my years in Brazil, I have only seen criminal activity one time. It was in Rio de Janeiro. I was witness to a shoot-out between the Police and two guys who stole a motorcycle. I watched from my 3rd floor hotel room and found out the next day there were bullet holes in the room directly below us on the 2nd floor. That is it. Thank the Lord.I am originally from the U.S. and travel extensively. I just love meeting new people. In the U.S. I had my car stolen 3 times and was witness to several criminal events. I carried a gun everywhere.Living in Brazil has afforded me a lifestyle I would never enjoy in the U.S. I own an investment firm so I can work anywhere with a computer. I live in Brazil and earn my money in the U.S. I am also a Doctoral student and receive a scholarship and grants. I have to travel back to the U.S. for school and work.The advantages…I have zero debt. I paid cash for my car. I paid cash for my home. I bought the property next door with cash. We have someone who cleans our home every week. My wife loves to cook so she does that. We know everyone in our town and they know us. There are only 21,000 people. Everyone says hello when we go out to eat. I love the people and the weather. Medical care is good and affordable for someone like me who is use to the U.S. I have used both public and private care. Thank the Lord I never had a problem with either.I even moved my Mother here to live with us and she requires extensive in-home care. I hired two nurses to assist us and they live here around the clock. This would not be possible in the U.S. As far as medical costs go, it is cheaper to live in Brazil with no insurance than it is in the U.S. with insurance.As others have said, everywhere has its good and bad. The only thing I dislike in Brazil are the self-defense laws. They are written to protect criminals. That is usually the case in every politically left-leaning country.Other than that, I love it here.

What do you know about Brazil and Brazilian people?

Sometime in the 1990s I figured out that there were more people in St Tropez who knew about Brazil,visited regularly, and understood the culture than in the entire US.Lets assume for the sake of argument that there are about 10 million Cubans, Irish and Jews. Each group has had 1000 times more influence in the US than Brazil.Considering its size, Brazil had no important role in WWl, WWll, or the Cold War.After preaching the ignorance of Bob Costas and his NBC OLympics coverage for 10 years it was still a shock to behold the contempt he showed to Rio and its people. It is like NBC in Havana for the Fidel funeral. They may as well be in a studio in New York.What I know is that the most beautiful people that ever lived were in Ipanema in the 1980s.At least until 2000 Brazil was a self-contained universe in cultural terms.Brazilians think that Pele and XUXA were badly treated in the US and Senna badly treated by Formula 1 racing officials.I know that Rio Carnaval is a much finer thing than New Orleans Mardi Gras.I know that racism has never been part of any national Brazilian political campaign, certainly nothing like in the US or Austria.Unlike Anthony Bourdain (who has made about 4 specials on Brazil) I am willing to admit that Brazilian food is not very good or very healthy.