tmac9wr
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Re: 319 A Street Rear
Erm...I'm not sure what your point is? I was just commenting on two starkly different development environments. There's no need to be a dick about it.
For what it's worth, São Paulo actually isn't getting much bigger. The immense amount of construction is a result of economic growth & an increasing standard of living...not a population boom like the Sun Belt cities of the US.
What has São Paulo achieved? To be honest, I don't know all that much. I've only lived here for three months. I can't tell you much more than you're gonna find on its Wiki page, but...I know it's incredibly rich in history, seeing as was settled in 1554 and has basically always been the Alpha city of Brasil.. Other than that, it was the first permanent Portuguese settlement on the planet and the former capital city of Brasil. It's by far the biggest city economically and quickly rising on the world stage in terms of power.
To go along with being big, it's an extremely diverse, cosmopolitan city. Italian & Portuguese are the two main ethnicities (accounting for roughly 9 million people), but there are over 1 million Arabs in the city, 665k Japanese (more than California & Hawai'i--the two most Japanese populated American states--combined), 400k Germans, 250k French, and 150k Greeks, just to name a few.
I suppose one of the most amazing achievements by São Paulo has been its crime-fighting of the past decade. In the early 2000s, São Paulo--like much of Brasil--was incredibly violent. Its murder rate in 2000 was something like 55 murders per 100k people. Comparatively, Detroit in the past decade has averaged about 40/100k. In 2010, the murder rate had dropped to 12 per 100k. That's on par with Boston, which in 2010 had a murder rate of 11.3 per 100k. I'd say that's pretty amazing.
Other than that, I think a great deal of São Paulo's greatest achievements are ahead of it. Brasil is quickly becoming a world power (it recently passed the UK for the world's 6th largest economy), and I guess that's one of the exciting things about being here. The São Paulo Metrô and CPTM are currently building 7 additional subway lines and have three others proposed. As I said before, the construction here isn't the growth of the city. It's the transformation into the first world. I'm really hoping to get a job soon, because it's something I want to be apart of. But...we'll see.
No offence Tmac -- but beside being big and apparently getting bigger by building a bunch of towers -- what is São Paulo noted for having achieved?
Erm...I'm not sure what your point is? I was just commenting on two starkly different development environments. There's no need to be a dick about it.
For what it's worth, São Paulo actually isn't getting much bigger. The immense amount of construction is a result of economic growth & an increasing standard of living...not a population boom like the Sun Belt cities of the US.
What has São Paulo achieved? To be honest, I don't know all that much. I've only lived here for three months. I can't tell you much more than you're gonna find on its Wiki page, but...I know it's incredibly rich in history, seeing as was settled in 1554 and has basically always been the Alpha city of Brasil.. Other than that, it was the first permanent Portuguese settlement on the planet and the former capital city of Brasil. It's by far the biggest city economically and quickly rising on the world stage in terms of power.
To go along with being big, it's an extremely diverse, cosmopolitan city. Italian & Portuguese are the two main ethnicities (accounting for roughly 9 million people), but there are over 1 million Arabs in the city, 665k Japanese (more than California & Hawai'i--the two most Japanese populated American states--combined), 400k Germans, 250k French, and 150k Greeks, just to name a few.
I suppose one of the most amazing achievements by São Paulo has been its crime-fighting of the past decade. In the early 2000s, São Paulo--like much of Brasil--was incredibly violent. Its murder rate in 2000 was something like 55 murders per 100k people. Comparatively, Detroit in the past decade has averaged about 40/100k. In 2010, the murder rate had dropped to 12 per 100k. That's on par with Boston, which in 2010 had a murder rate of 11.3 per 100k. I'd say that's pretty amazing.
Other than that, I think a great deal of São Paulo's greatest achievements are ahead of it. Brasil is quickly becoming a world power (it recently passed the UK for the world's 6th largest economy), and I guess that's one of the exciting things about being here. The São Paulo Metrô and CPTM are currently building 7 additional subway lines and have three others proposed. As I said before, the construction here isn't the growth of the city. It's the transformation into the first world. I'm really hoping to get a job soon, because it's something I want to be apart of. But...we'll see.
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