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10 Things About Sao Paulo

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.

  1. In the main, Sao Paulo is not a cheap city
  2. For all I know I could have been flown to any southern European city
  3. Us locals refer to Sao Paulo as Sampa
  4. Sao Paulo lies just on the Tropic of Capricorn. That’s actually quite far south
  5. c.1.4 million Japanese live in the state of Sao Paulo, the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. People from Sampa are known as Paulistanos, people from the wider state are called Paulistas
  10. Couples regularly CANOODLE in the STREET. I mean they really go for it!

Obrigado

2 thoughts on “10 Things About Sao Paulo

  1. "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.

    1. 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.

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