I Love Brazil, What Beaches What Women, I Love Living Here

[Rare]

I have lived here all my life and I would not trade its beauty for the world.

[Twohands]

I have lived here all my life and I would not trade its beauty for the world.

Stop bragging!!

I certainly understand how anyone would love living there for so many reasons and certainly those cited by you would be high on my list!! Your country is indeed a timelessly beautiful, spiritually and culturally rich oasis where beauty is defined not only by physical but soulful attributes as well.

I love the food, the music and Samba!! And the women are starlets in dreams I've had for years and finally realized...

I'd live there too, but I love NYC too much to ever leave...

[Márcio Osório]

I have lived here all my life and I would not trade its beauty for the world.

"So happy here I'm never gonna leave!" an American once told me. He left.

[Xango de Sade]

Where do you go in NYC to not be bored off your ass?

[Comandante]

Where do you go in NYC to not be bored off your ass?

If you're bored in NYC, you might just want to kill yourself.

[Xango de Sade]

Dude, NYC is FUCKING BORING.

If not, set me straight with some HARD evidence. Show me what I'm missing out on. Dates, places, times! Money is almost not an object.

[Comandante]

Dude, NYC is f**king BORING.

If not, set me straight with some HARD evidence. Show me what I'm missing out on. Dates, places, times! Money is almost not an object.

NYC is the most complete city in the world, hands down! However, if your limited view of life is all about prostitution, then I can see your point.

[Xango de Sade]

Prostitution, GOOD live music, and GOOD theatre.

I will grant that dining out is good here, and there are a few spots where you can p4p. But beyond that, ZIPPO.

So post places, times, dates, addresses, or STFU

And they can't only be good on the weekends cuz I work weekends, being a musician myself! But hey that shouldn't be a problem in "the most happening city in the world", RIGHT?

[Jaboo]

I love NY. My dads family is from there and it is a great town. There is great food and if you live there you know where to find it. NY women can be a lot of fun, and for me it is my number 1 get laid spot in the world. It is nothing special about NY except for some reason i mesh well with them.
NY music is like brasil music, it is either very good or very bad, but there is very good classical and dont forget about broadway.

However Xango is right is it booring as poop there, for people who live there. If you got the money to live in manhattan it is far more tolerable than being stuck in the boroughs. But party life in NYC died with the twin towers and was slowly dying long before that. I think new yorkers problems are they get jaded inside nyc and they are like gerberls running around in some giant tubey thing. 20 years ago new york was alot of fun.
10 years ago you could still even have fun in ny. Now its like living in sampa.
Chato

[Xango de Sade]

I agree with you except for Broadway. At this point I would refuse free tickets to see a Broadway show. Last one I saw was that f*****g abortion about John Lennon (on a comp ticket of course) and I've stayed away religiously since

I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me WHEN and WHERE there is a good party here. I'm even going to be at Nacotheque on Saturday but I'm not holding my breath. How is a Saturday supposed to be good with every fuckhead from the suburbs coming in? :p

[Comandante]

Sampa is f****d up but still is the most cosmopolitan city in Brazil. Rio is like a giant backwoods town compared to Sampa when it comes arts, culture, international food, night life, places to work, etc. That's how I see NYC compared to the rest of the USA. But Americans still got L.A, Frisco, Chicago etc. In Brazil is only SP and that's it. The rest of the country is a gigantic backward 5th world territory filled with ignorant hillbillies.

[Xango de Sade]

I'd have to agree with Coma on that. When I went to Rio I f*****g loved every last second of it, but when my head cooled off I realized I'd NEVER wanna live there. You can fly in for a week and hit the thermas HARD, hit a couple good steakhouses, jam with a few musicians and then be off.

SP I haven't experienced in the slightest, but I doubt it's as boring as NYC is in 2007. People just don't realize how far down it's fallen in recent years.

[hhh1200]

No much good to say about Brazil in this thread.

If you are financially stable enough...Rio is workable. Wouldnt want to try and make a living there but I know two ex-pats who are making it work. You can't extract s##t about living somewhere from a week or so of parting. That's like me commenting on SP but I was only there for 6 days. BTW...I love Belem.

[Dark Hedonist]

What about Salvador?

[Jaboo]

Dude with enough money you can live in tocantins and have a good life.

Salvador is on par with Rio, SP BH or any other major city. Some states real estate costs more, others its schooling, others its transportation. its all a give and take.

[tesmond]

Boredom is a state of mind, nothing to do with the city. If you are bored anywhere it is your fault. I live in the UK, I have visited NYC, Rio, SaoP, Chicago...you could be in the middle of carnvival in Rio and be bored if you wanted to, or you could be in the salt flats of Africa on your own and be having the most amazing time. Really it is up to you.

I want to live in Brazil for a few years, there are many amazing things you can only find in Brazil. Of course for every good point you could name a bad point such as the bureaucracy, the drunk driving, the poor sewage systems and in some places the high crime rates are a bit off putting to say the least.

We all like different aspects of our home and our culture, but it is a little narrow minded to not see the good aspects of NYC or indeed to think it is a boring place!

My Brazilian ex-wife grew to dislike England, she said that the neighbours never talk to each other no one is friendly and everyone is very cold. Now she is back in Sao Paulo she is crying about how her family and friends will not help her out.

What my ex-wife saw as cold and unfriendly I saw as respecting peoples privacy. This is a simple cultural difference. However, as my friends stood by and offered their support during my divorce, my wive's Brazilian friends faded away. Although my friends were "cold" and "unfriendly" and her's were extrovert and exuberent, in the end they were not true friends.

I am now engaged to another Brazilian woman...I swear there are more Brazilians where I live than English people ;) Anyway I stayed in her city for a month. There is nothing wrong with her city, but she cannot wait to come back to England, her best friend who live there is now living in Madrid and does not want to go back, and I met two more of her friends from London who want to go back to London as soon as possible. Of course one of her other friends was living in the UK and couldnt wait to get back to Brazil. Everyone is different!

Anyway I ended up writing too much, but what I really wanted to say was you cannot be bored if you enjoy the company of those around you and your own company, where you are is not that important.

[tesmond]

I am interested in what you can do in Brazil that you cant do in NYC?
-Brazilian Food...err I'm pretty sure you can find this in NYC
-Brazilian Music...err I'm pretty sure you can find this in NYC
-Brazilian dance...err I'm pretty sure you can find this in NYC
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I mean seriously any major city you can do whatever you want, you could learn to fly, learn to climb, you could even learn Capoeira...I am pretty sure you can do any of these things any day of the week in NYC

And lets face as you yourself are an example you can even meet Brazilian's if it is the people that you are interested in.

[Xango de Sade]

There are certain very specific things I'm looking for. And because of my scehdule evenings and weekends are OUT. When I first moved here this was not so much a problem.

[cancer_rat]

Prostitution, GOOD live music, and GOOD theatre.

I will grant that dining out is good here, and there are a few spots where you can p4p. But beyond that, ZIPPO.

So post places, times, dates, addresses, or STFU

And they can't only be good on the weekends cuz I work weekends, being a musician myself! But hey that shouldn't be a problem in "the most happening city in the world", RIGHT?

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