Sao Paulo’s a cool place. I expected a dirty, rough sprawl. What I got was a friendly, wealthy, tres moderne high-rise bustling metropolis. Go.
- In the main, Sao Paulo is not a cheap city
- For all I know I could have been flown to any southern European city
- Us locals refer to Sao Paulo as Sampa
- Sao Paulo lies just on the Tropic of Capricorn. That’s actually quite far south
- c.1.4 million Japanese live in the state of Sao Paulo, the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan
- I have never had as much sushi as I had in my 3 weeks in Sao Paulo. Eat as much as you like for c.£10
- If you’re served a thimble-full of weak beer with more than half the vessel containing froth, it’s probably Chopp, it may be refreshing on a hot day but really, the stuff is piss
- Hippest place I visited: the Sky bar atop the equally cool Unique (oo-nee-key) hotel. Have some Caiparinhas up there and enjoy that view. Best cityscape I’ve ever seen
- People from Sampa are known as Paulistanos, people from the wider state are called Paulistas
- Couples regularly CANOODLE in the STREET. I mean they really go for it!
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"1.4 million Japanese live in the state of Sao Paulo, the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan." I am so surprise to see this. As what I know, Japanese do not like to live abroad.
Check out this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian.
Seems there was an agreement between the two nations early on last century to migrate people who were prepared to put in the work where Europeans weren’t.