Brazil?

This is not the Brazil I expected. There aren't black women dancing to
exotic drum beats on every corner, Samba music does not eminate from
every open window,  I am not at risk of getting mugged on a daily
basis and beggars don't harrass me. It is not even hot and sunny.
Instead I have found a city just exotic enough to be interesting; a
city that is safe and modern enough to be livable. Here most people
live in high rises and poverty confines itself to the occasional
person collecting recycling. Vancouver has far more beggars and
vagrant types on the street. The transportation system is modern and
three hundred person buses glide down bus only roads depositing and
collecting people from big glass tubes on the roadside. The city is
clean as factories were never allowed to sully the air and water. The
only thing that makes it feel like a developing country is the bins
beside the toilets to collect toilet paper. I still haven't perfected
the folding job necessary to hide the brown stripe on each piece I
throw in the bin.

Apparently this is the most boring city in Brazil. It also has the
highest quality of life and the lowest amount of poverty.

So far it has been a wonderful experience.

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Tyson Brooks

Heading for Brazil
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