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Sao Paulo is the second or third hugest city on earth. I thought New York was overwhelming! It's nothing in comparison.

"Sampa" (the local nickname) consists of huge gray cement skyscrapers jammed closely together with bursts of colorful garish street signs and millions upon millions of the most beautiful people I've ever met.

Most people don't visit Sao Paulo because it isn't as pretty or famous as Rio (it's useless visiting "historical" buildings, as they're squished between thousands of gigantic communist-style gray concrete buildings) ... but the clubs and culture here were incredible. Yeah, Rio fits the more romantic notion of "brasil" but Sao Paulo is also true Brasilian culture, it just takes effort to enjoy it. There are so many immigrants from all corners of the earth here and the chaos of the metropolis is like the backddrop to some kind of fantastic movie (a lot of people compare Sampa to NYC... but I found Sampa cooler!)

I met some incredible artists there who you should check out:

<a href="http://www.tom-b.com">http://www.tom-b.com</a>
<a href="http://www.spectrogirl.com">http://www.spectrogirl.com</a>
<a href="http://www.urru.net">http://www.urru.net</a>

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