| Barbara |
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Female, 48
NVLast seen Nov 3, 2008
Las Vegas
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About me
Second grade teacher
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patricia11
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Ginger, about living in Brazil. I was born in Rio in 1962. Rio was a culturally thriving city,even glamorous, with all the bossa nova wave. But my grandpa always used to say that wealth cannot live next door to so much poverty on the slums, set on the hills that surround Rio de Janeiro. There you are, there came dictartorship cutting us from the outer world, sending brains out to exile in France, UK and Cuba.
Since 1984 we´ve been a democracy again, of course with a corrupted system that we are trying to fight. As there are many Brazils: North is the Amazon, Northeast still controlled by old colonels, center thriving on soya exports, southeast the wealthiest region where I live and the south, region with the best education in the country due to german, italian immigtration.
Sao Paulo is a bit like we used to see Detroit in films back in the 70´s. It´s not safe to go for a walk/ride at night. Having said that, we do have wonderful restaurants and a pretty agitated nightlife. We also have impossible traffic jams. It takes me 1h30 mins to cover the 14 kilometers to work everyday. We still lack qualified labour and there is much infrastructure to be established. Yet , I think many foreigners will be coming here for the next decades, I have been noticing qualified people are moving here from everywhere. My brother in law being one of them, coming from the UK to live here.
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I will, Ginger, i promise! That´s a good idea!I´ll think of something curious/interesting to tell you!
speak again soon!!
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