| Page Views: 7,684 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...) |
|
> Add to your Custom Travel Guide [What's This?]
| 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" |
schurlif's São Paulo Travel Tips
 Comments for schurlif about São Paulo | | | | |
easterntrekker Sat Apr 4, 2009 02:45 UTC
Great pages. Thanks for sharing. | mydreamquest Mon Mar 24, 2008 20:35 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. | SoulFisher Tue Nov 6, 2007 19:19 UTC
"Everybody against everybody and God against all..." You got that nervous ironic tease that is so typical in Brazilians. The way you write speaks itself to describe that great apocalyptic mega suburb that S. Paulo might be. Great:-) | vtdanny Fri Oct 26, 2007 17:51 UTC
Georg, you have no idea how much your restaurants reviews made me hungry the night I read them !Excellent info and you wrote with such passion, thanks for sharing.And when I drink my sake next month in Japanese Town Sao Paulo, I'll drink one to you!Saude. |
|
|
email me
add as friend
