Man, How is your eyesight? I mean with all that white background on your charts, do your eye balls burn?
Hmm I miss the smell of Sao Paulo!! Nothing like wiping all the pollution off your face in order to keep your pores from clogging up with black stuff! Or getting robbed at gunpoint at a stop light during the day. What I miss the most is finding out that my buildings security guards where being bribed by robbers, allowing them to come in with machine guns. Those were the days!!
These are the days...nothing much has changed but it is not as bad as it sounds. I am sure you have good memories as well. I hope. Right?
haha I love Brasil. I have not visited Sao Paulo in almost 9 years. I'm probably gonna be visiting Curitiba and Videira, SC this december though!
I have many Brazilian friends. They try repeatedly to get me to go there on vacation. Some of my friends go with them. I saw too many Dateline/ 60 Minutes episodes as a kid where they show street gangs robbing and killing tourists over minimal amounts of money plus the corrupt police. I'm not that hard up for a good time. I enjoy plenty of good times without going there. I'm sure like any area it has its good areas and bad areas; good people and bad people. And I'm sure locals there see news stories about crime in the USA. Maybe one day I'll go but for now I choose otherwise.
Its a beautiful place and you should visit. You will be safe as long as you don't go out flashing jewelery.
I had a buddy that had a job for a multi-national company and he was stationed there for 6 months. He learned real quick to pack his sleeping bag and buy a light bulb every day on his way home to his flea bag apartment because every day his room would be cleaned out COMPLETELY, down to the light bulb. He loved it for the recreation, but not for working/living.
Here is my friend Vlad in his San Pedro CA office. in 2000-2004 he was working at Worldco in NY with Alex Gerchik from wall st. warriors. Now doing his own gig, and wento from 80k to 400 k in one year.