Top 10 Things I Hate about Brazil 🇧🇷 (I still love it, though...) 

Hello! I was fascinated by your channel. Got recommended by youtube and it was very interesting to see that some Europeans still decide to move to Brazil, despite our image and the condition of the country. As a geography teacher and a freak for statistics I would like to counter argue or fill in some gaps about some of the things you said. 1. Regarding the price of electronics, import taxes have been insane in Brazil since the 1930's due to a policy called "import replacement", where the government would give preferencial treatment for companies who would manufacture in Brazil. These policies had their ups and downs, with it's peak being during the 1970's economical boom. Nowadays, due to super high consume taxes, local industries have strong lobbies in congress against reducing import taxes, because they argue that they would pay more taxes than foreing companies, which is sadly true. 2. Living costs in the South of Brazil is considerably higher than in the Southeast, especially if compared to some regions of São Paulo state. What happens is the south is not particulary industrialized and therefore many goods need to be shipped from the Southeast, and since everything moves by truck here, prices go up really fast. The region of São Paulo state that I live in, Vale do Paraíba, probably has the lower price for goods in the country. It is situated between Rio and São Paulo city, and it's sorrounded by industries. So you can get better and cheaper goods here. Also, since you like mountains, you might want to visit my region. You see, the highest cities in Brazil are over here, with Campos do Jordão being at 1600 meters. It's a tourist trap city, and although it doesn't snow, it has lower average temperatures throughout the year. 3. Regarding crime, you are very mistaken regarding São Paulo (state and city). The state is the safest in the country, averaging 5,66 murders per 100,000. Paraná is around 30, and Curitiba is around 24. São Paulo city is around 7 or 8. I'm guessing your husband or other people told you São Paulo was violent because most of the media is based over there and the city gets over represented on TV. São Paulo used to be very violent in the 90's and early 2000's, but the state invested a lot in security and policing. 4. If you hate plastic bags, São Paulo is the city for you. It has a municipal law for many years now that prohibits distribution of free plastic bags. You can by a more recyclabe version or just use permanent cloth ones. 5. Political extremism in Brazil is, sadly, a reality. However, it was created indirectly by centrist politicians incompentence and corruption. People got fed up with them and moved to extreme ideas, on both sides. That's why the center is mostly unpopular these days. Sorry for the long commentary. I just couldn't hold my tongue. 😅 And I also love the German people. I lived in Germany back in 97 and always had good memories of my time there in Bavaria. Tschüss

I've worked in Braziu for a couple of years , 6 month a year , in Maraba , Goiania and Bataguassu , and if you work for a big company , life becomes pretty easy because of the protection they give you . Once I had to go home , and from Bataguassu the driver of the company drove me to an airport , and he gave instructions to the TAM representatives . They seated me alone in the plane in the middle of 3 seats and didn't allow other people to sit next to me . There were nearly only women on the plane . . . Then in San Paulo we landed at the 2nd airport , and my luggage did not arrive . Then I realized they tried calling my name Pfeiff , but I didn't recognize it . So I went to the bali , and indeed there was a very friendly girl who watched over my luggage . Then she told me she was instructed to put me on the bus , so I took my handluggage , she took my case with wheels in one hand and took my hand in hers , and so we walked to the busstation . Their she made sure that my suitcase got a number , she gave me the number and arranged me a ticket to the other side of SP , about 50 minutes by bus . She hugged and kissed me , and even waited till the bus took off , waved me goodbye and went back to work . Where does one find such friendly people ? So spontaneous ❤ Did work there for 10 years , every year 180 days , so lets say for 6 years . For me Brazil is a great country , they offered me a few times citizenship , but with a family and kids it was not feasible at that time . It is indeed difficult to speak English in Braziu, but I've met people who spoke German which is very close to my mother tongue Dutch . Brazil is a beatiful country , and the people have good vibes they are spontaneous and friendly. I am happy for you that you've found your place there . AWS !

I've lived in Brazil for over 10 years, and I have a terrible experience. I've been robbed more than 3 times, my family has been kidnapped (they only stole money and didn't get hurt, luckily). There was a time when my colleague didn't return money I lent, and when I asked them about it, they got angry. What's worse is that many criminals use their money to buy drugs. I've heard of a case where an elderly man lost all his belongings, including documents, because of a robbery and is now living on the street. I became a RU-vidr to show the reality of Brazil to poor immigrants who are arriving here

Yes, about the crime I agree with you, I moved from SP to Paraná and started the university here because I was tired of the subway and crimes

Yeees!! It's the first time I hear someone complaining about the plastic bags, my god! It's like they make zero effort to be just a little bit ecofriendly. Even if you buy something tiny they'll still give you a plastic bag, you have to actually refuse it. That annoys me indeed.

About the taxes, it is because we have something called SUS, if you broke you arm you can go to the hospital and dont pay for it Sus stands for: sistema unico de saude

About the bureaucracy, do you think that it is worse in Brazil than it is in Germany? I am a Brazilian living in Sweden, but I have been to Germany sometimes. And one thing that surprised me was the total lack of digitalization and the amount of extra steps that one has to go through to get a simple task done. Many things are still done on paper, and you send letters and stamp stuff. Of course, it's not perfect in Brazil, but I have the impression that we are doing a better job in simplifying unnecessary bureaucracy than Germany. PS. I know that the video is about the things you dislike in Brazil and not a comparison of which is better. But I would like to see some perspective about that comparison.

I thought we had more English speakers here in Curitiba. We have some Italian, German and Ukrainian speakers too but they are even rarer. About inequality: The south has less favelas because we didn't have many slaves like SP and RJ, the culture here was always of have lots of kids and work for land. So, when slavery got abolished, slaves got help and actually got integrated in society pretty well instead of living in slums... Most our slavery stories are from Europeans (yes, white slaves) as they arrived here late with zero opportunity but still managed. In the end family workforce saved the south.

Well.... come to Minas Gerais if you like elevation I guess. They are not technically mountains, but who cares about technicalities. If it looks like a mountain it is a mountain. No snow though

When it comes to the sanitation system, is it true that you cannot flush toiletries down the toilet? That would be a little difficult to get used to.

Interesting video. I live in Curitiba too and I think it's pretty... unsafe, especially in the downtown area. I've noticed you saying that the south isn't as bad as the northernmost parts of the country in crime and inequality, I always thought the city and the state bought a lot of marketing to promote itself as better than the rest of the country... but is it really not that bad? Now, I'm curious if Paraná isn't so bad at all XD. How does Curitiba compare to the cities in your country, Germany, in your opinion?

What's your country of origin? I can hear a German accent.

I'm looking for a partner for some language exchange, if you're interesting in get some help in portuguese let me know, let's make some lessons

As a gay guy I would like to understand what disagreements you have with brazilian left

There's no need and there's no MONEY for brazilians to learn English, people don't believe they can learn by themselves and the english schools are something built to some especific public... its sad, but please look at the applied linguistics studies that talk about english teaching in Brazil, will give you some insights

It's amazing how people from the USA think that the world is forced to speak English to serve them. I think it's absurd to go to the United States and they have no knowledge of any other language. But here the food is much cheaper. Real food, which in Emisferio Norte is absurd, that's why they live on fast food. I love seeing foreigners complaining about Brazilian bureaucracy, because they don't know how their country works for foreigners. In fact, our healthcare is free.