| Page Views: 8,253 Last Visit to São Paulo: - I Used To Live Here | Short glimpses at São Paulo , my place..... by schurlif - last update: Oct 29, 2006 |
What is easier than a page of your base city...? | São Paulo Jardins District |
I'm Austrian from Vienna and as I say , life is weirder than any brazilian or mexican TV novela..... I have been living in São Paulo for the past 19 years. This place is an extreme in many ways. Grande (Metropolitan) São Paulo has some 18 million inhabitants , unquestionably one of the 5 biggest cities that exist and of course there's all the crap of any big city , pollution , traffic jams , crime , corrupted local politicians and police...
So why am I staying here..??? Hmmmm , the food !!!!! The women !!!!! The easy life if you have just a little teeny weeny amount of money...... But if it gets too much , I have at least three places where to escape: Rio , Valinhos and Ubatuba...
Rio is obvious , in Valinhos ( 80 km north) I have my country house and in Ubatuba my beach house.... so ... there you go...!
Last entry : (Well , it did get too much... on July 27th , 2006 , I moved definitely to Valinhos and I made a great decision... perfect climate , no pollution , almost no crime , much cheaper , no traffic and a parrot, three pitbulls and horses as neighbors....) |
| it's not so bad after all.... |
|  | My neighborhood I live in a quiet ( sometimes.. that is ) residential area called Jardim das Bandeiras ( Flag Garden ) , which belongs to the Pinheiros ( = Pinetree) District , about 4 km from the city center or five minutes by car from the Avenida Paulista ( which I'll show and explain later...)
Here's my street , Rua Cristiano Viana and my house to the right on the corner... |
Ponte Aerea ( "Air Bridge") from Rio about to land This plane ( as seen from the roof of a highrise nearby my house) will touch down in max 2 minutes at Congonhas (city) Airport.... By the time it is almost low enough to land , whether you're in the plane or on a rooftop , it feels and looks as if the plane was crashlanding on a tiny roof.....( If you ever landed in Hong Kong that's nothing compared to landing at Congonhas...) Because the airport was built like 55 years ago on a wide open field with absolutely nothing around it.... The city has mushroomed like crazy and today the highrises grow ever closer and closer , I wonder when they'll start building one on the runway...? | | | Fly away ( and land safely on the runway...) |
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| Pros: | "Culinary Capital of the World , relaxed mixture of Milan and New York" | | Cons: | "Traffic, Pollution , Crime , Everybody against everybody and God against all...." | | In A Nutshell: | "Apocalyptic Giga Concrete Jungle with some very nice aspects" |
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yaya15923 Wed Nov 4, 2009 21:14 UTC
wonderful pages and photos! I have a Great Uncle in Florianopolis that I have yet to meet so hoping to make it down to Brazil sometime in 2010. | Kasapo Sat Oct 10, 2009 17:37 UTC
I m from zambia and would like to visit sau paulo soon. can you recommend cheap,safe budget accomodation or rooms for up to 5days stay. | easterntrekker Sat Apr 4, 2009 03:45 UTC
Great pages. Thanks for sharing. | mydreamquest Mon Mar 24, 2008 21:35 UTC
Very interesting and well written Sao Paulo page. Intriguing to me to read it from you, one from Vienna, one of my favorite European cities. |
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