I just spent a month living in Brazil, ask me anything.

I've been down here in Brazil for about a month for work, and am headed back to the states today.

What really shocked me coming down here, and what I was unprepared for was the level of poverty across the country. I thought I understood what poverty was before I came down here, but poverty in the U.S. is wealthy by comparison. I drove though a literal shanty town and learned that a PLC manager only makes $4000 a year, when in the U.S. he'd by making more than 80K.

The food is very good. Their meat is far superior to the U.S. in paticular. Which was nice since down here a 5 star restaurant steak is $15.

There is an insane number of prostitutes and is only "frowned upon", not illegal. In fact a manager at the plant In which I was working, asked me and my boss if we wanted to go get prostitutes with him.

The Zeka thing is overblown. I think I've seen about 2 mosquitoes, and I bought a hat that says "Zeka" on it.

There is graffiti everywhere, I think it's a cultural art thing.

They don't have stop signs; driving is terrifying in this country, everybody speeds and seems to have no sense of self preservation. Saw a few deaths on the road....

and oh my god there's so many prostitutes.

Questions?

....so were there prostitutes?

Yes, one day on our way to work a big group of prostitutes were crossing the street between the whore house and the gas station. My boss stopped to let them pass, and while they were walking across, somebody rear ended us (I can only imagine where his mind was lol). Then he drove off. We pulled over into the gas station to assess the damage, prostitutes giggling and watching the entire time, while a police officer looked at it and shrugged. lol, we still got to work on time.

@servomaster: what was your best experience? what was your worst experience?

Is it true they call brazil nuts just nuts?.

Best: getting really drunk at some fancy restaurant.

Worst: driving through a shanty town because we took a wrong turn. Scary stuff.

You should have told the prostitutes they "owed you" for the damages! :P

Know this is off-topic, but did you play Max Payne 3? Sounds like it's pretty accurate lol. Have you been to any soccer? Are Brazilians as crazy about the game as they say?

You know of tranvesti right?

Haven't seen any soccer, but a lot of people wear Hats and shirts with their favorite teams on them. My boss bought a team's hat, unknowing that it was the worst team in the league. He was made fun of by the locals when he wore it lol.

I do after googling it just now, and ew.

Lol, learnt of it in anthropology. Quite normal for children to take female hormones and what not from a very young age. Anyway, i thought Brazil was a very wealthy country,

Was just about to ask that question lol. Already been answer I see.

@servomaster so my question is, were there any cool Bars by any chances? I mean, assuming you drink, how does the alcohol taste? Way better then anywhere else?

Did you see or meet any popular Brazil Soccer Players? Pele or Ronaldhino or KaKa or Neymar?

If you got a shirt that says ZEKA, you got ripped off. Its actually spelled Zika, and there are already 12 cases as of last week, in the US. It only takes one mosquito to pass it. I hope you got checked. Your creating the Resident Evil stage in the US. You've doomed us all for a bit of $$, dang !

Did you get the feeling that a lot of people got butt implants?

Scale of 1-10 how scary? Driving into hood and getting stares scary? or I am going to be left for dead if I don't exit in next 5 minutes scary

Also how is alcohol down there in Brazil? Any good beers or cocktails you recommend? IDK if they have good beers like US or Germany

do you have microcephaly?

So it sounds like your perspective on poverty changed. It may be too soon for this, but did your opinion on how to help or possibly just to help in the first place change as well?

What was the tastiest thing you ate that you wouldn't normally see back in the states?

That is actually about what I would have expected someone to say.

The poverty especially and, more importantly, the financial differences; I hear like one second you're in a nice part of town but in a matter of blocks you're in a slum.

DIdn't know about the driving, though, that's pretty scary.

@Sandulf29: Xingu is a Brazilian beer, a black lager; light on the pallet, but full-flavored for roasted grains. You can get it in the US.

There are some good rum distilleries down there, too, but nothing I'm familiar with.

*I Have a question, though: were the prostitutes attractive? And is it regulated through brothels and pretty legit, or is pretty dirty and street-based. Planning my next vacation and Mexico is a no-go now...

Sounds promising. Unfortunately closest outlet selling it here is at other end of town at a Brazilian restaurant. Guess will try it when I am in that area sometime

How is the pollution?

Do you like ice cream?

did u have sex with any sexy woman from brazil

No, it's incredibly poor. They have a big population so they have a big economy, but they are very very poor.

It's mostly in the Norther region, and I was in the south. I don't have the hat handy to check.

and yes to resident evil!

No, I have a girlfriend, but my co-worker bought 2 prostitutes at once and had a three some.

Not bad at all, The country is actually huge on recycling. They didn't have many trash cans, but there were recycling bins for different materials everywhere.

I imagine that helps a lot.

Is the the reputation that Brazilian women are the hottest well deserved or a myth?

Lol, nope didn't see anybody of interest.

I do, but not the stuff down in Brazil, all of their sweets, and especially their chocolate have a weird taste to them.

Programmable logic Controller.

Robots use a latter logic program based on bits being turned on and off.

It's true, but a little overblown.

They had very big butts down there which was amazing!

But faces weren't anything special, maybe a tiny bit better than the U.S.

There were a lot of bars in the area I was in, which was basically an art district.

Their alcohol was pretty good, they make some of their liquor from sugar canes and it makes for a sweet drink, despite being 150 proof.

Yes, I'm not sure how it's regulated, it's legal, but frowned upon. I heard that the guy who owns the local soccer team (equivalent of a MLB team) owned all the brothels, my co-worker didn't have any problems and they wrapped it....

Made me a bit less empathetic towards people who are in poverty in the U.S. Seeing computer programmers make less than a fast food worker would make in the U.S. Seeing how easy people have it in the U.S. have it, even if they're very poor.

I really don't know how to help those people, hopefully wages go up as they develop as a country as they're still developing currently.

Probably some of their liquor, they make it from sugar cane.

I'd say significanly worse than being in the hood as in the hood there's actual building structures and far fewer stray animals.

I can't remember the name...something like "capahinya" or something similar.

Why are the Rich class protesting?

Last I checked, Brazil is a country of more than 3 million square miles. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you're probably referring to one or more specific areas in Brazil. Where were you staying?

I spent a month in Brazil as well when I was in my 20s studying Capoeira with a large group of students from three different Carpoeira schools from different parts of the US. I spent my first week in Sao Paulo, my second week in Rio, and the last two weeks in Salvador, Bahia (the last of week was on a ranch in the country). Each of those three places were pretty wildly different from one another.

One thing that was consistent, though, was the most amazing steak I have had anywhere in the world, followed closely by Argentina.

-Byshop

How did you like El Salvador ? What did you do there ? Was it safe ? Or dangerous as they all say ?

@servomaster: Did you fell in love with a woman but turned out to be a trap?

I just knew this was gonna be the FIRST question asked!! lol

I'm not surprised at all about the meat being better because I'm sure they don't treat their livestock all that crap that we give our animals.

It's good that you have a different perspective on poverty, if more Americans traveled abroad, they would see that we don't have it so bad over here.

Besides that, I'm glad you had a good time and made it home ok.

Hahaha, no. Not El Salvador the country. Salvador the city, which is the capital of the state of Bahia in Brazil. The city of Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of the same name, and the same goes for Sao Paulo so they are both referred to by just the one name (like nobody says "New York, NY", they just say "New York" or "New York City"). There are other Salvadors in the world, so the Brazilian capital is referred to (sometimes confusingly) as "Salvador, Bahia".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador,_Bahia

It was amazingly beautiful there. We boated to islands, jumped off the boat and swam to shore, and played Capoeira on the beaches.

-Byshop

@servomaster: "No, I have a girlfriend, but my co-worker bought 2 prostitutes at once and had a three some."

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

So how's the weather?

Do you **** brazilian girls? Travel in this country without **** this cute girls... sad for you my homie

Sounds like Mexico, which I guess isn't all that surprising.