Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, ORGANIZATIONS:, tagged American, Brazil, expats, living abroad, organization, Sao Paulo, Society on 30 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The American Society of São Paulo Blog
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The bulk of material in this blog comes from the most recent issues of Forum, the monthly newsletter of AmSoc. Scroll down to see the first few paragraphs of each story, and click the blue “read more” links if you are interested in, [...]
Posted in BLOG STUFF, CITIES: São Paulo, tagged Blog, Brazil, Canada, Living in Sao Paulo, newly married, Sao Paulo, Vancouver on 16 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not the girl from Ipanema, but I found my love in Vancouver and followed him to São Paulo, Brazil. I’m up here on the eighth floor in Brooklin, slowly etching out a tiny niche in a megalopolis. I have time on my hands so indulge me and learn something about Brazil while you’re at [...]
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, tagged Brazil, cities, information, Latin America, Latin Business Chronicle, new, quality of life, rio de janeiro., Sao Paulo on 15 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A good article in this publication about the quality of life in São Paulo as well as other cities in South America base on the Mercer Survey. This publicastion is a good source for Latin American news.
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, tagged Brazil, cities, flooding, rainstorms, river, Sao Paulo, tiete, traffic jams on 8 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sao Paulo today received 70% of the rain it normally receives during the entire month of September. Flooding there is not unusual during the rainy season. Famous for its traffic jams…..add a lot of water and you get this.
VIDEO:
See video of metro station….looks like Japan.
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, DAILY LIFE, tagged Brazil, life, living, Sao Paulo, working on 17 August, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Written by John Fitzpatrick
Monday, 17 August 2009 19:41
Norman Normal, a middle-aged expatriate journalist, was awakened as happened every day in São Paulo by a pack of dogs barking. They howled and bayed crazily as they did at several points during the day and, as usual, their owners made no attempt to shut them up. [...]
Posted in CITIES: Belo Horizonte, CITIES: Rio, CITIES: São Paulo, tagged Brazil, coming, Google, Sao Paulo, Street View, updated post on 1 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »
FolhaOnline annouced today that Google in cooperation with FIAT will offer Street View for the city of São Paulo. FIAT confirmed that they are in talks with Google. Google did not comment one way or the other. More news is expected next week.
UPDATE: 2 July 09
Globo Online Rio and Belo Horizonte will also have Google [...]
Posted in BRAZILIAN NEWS:, CITIES: São Paulo, POLITICS:, tagged AF 447, Bovespea, Brazil, Brazilian Real, Honduras, Iran, issues, Michael Jackson, news, newspapers, Sarney, Stock Market, TV, US Dollar on 30 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AF 447: The news month started off with the crash of Air France flight 447 about 1000 km of the coast of Brazil. This was a difficult operation for the Brazilian Navy and Air Force, but they seem to have done a good job under the circumstances.
The Senate: Big scandal in Brasilia. The President of [...]
Posted in CITIES: Goiânia, CITIES: São Paulo, DRIVING IN BRAZIL(DIB):, tagged Brazil, Drinking, Driving, DUI, DWI, goiania, goias, intoxicated, Laws on 14 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This information is taken from an article in the local Sunday newspaper ( O Popular) in Goiânia.
The number of driver’s licenses suspended due to driving while intoxicated was 150 in the year before the Lei Seca was implemented while only 38 drivers had their licenses suspended since the one year of the Lei Seca. Although [...]
Posted in CITIES: Belo Horizonte, CITIES: Brasília, CITIES: Manaus, CITIES: Natal, CITIES: Recife, CITIES: Rio, CITIES: Salvador, CITIES: São Paulo, WORLD CUP 2014:, tagged 2014, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Brazil, cities, Cuiaba, curitiba, football, Fortaleza, futebol, Manaus, Natal, Recife, rio de janeiro., Salvador, Sao Paulo, soccer, WORLD CUP 2014: on 29 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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O Globo:
The final will be played in Rio.
LINKS:
Brazilian National Team
FIFA – Brazil
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, WORKING IN BRAZIL(WIB):, tagged Brazil, government jobs, hours waiting, long lines, Maua, Sao Paulo on 16 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Approximately 9,200 people stood in line in Mauá, SP, greater São Paulo, for six hours to register to take the test for 120 part-time jobs with the Mauá’s county government. Salaries for the jobs range from R$835 to R$945 (US$385 to US$ 435) per month.
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, tagged a mess, Brazil, floods, rains, Sao Paulo, traffic gridlock on 17 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
São Paulo was hit today by heavy rains resulting in serious flooding. This happens every year….some years worse than others. This year is one of the “worse than others”.
201 km of backed-up traffic as of 7:00 p.m. Newspaper said this was a record!
Click here for flood photos
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, tagged Brazil, flowers and more, parks, places to visit, Sao Paulo on 10 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
São Paulo
GinverV who lives in the State of Rio de Janeiro took a trip with her husband to SP. Great photos of places to which I have never been. This is the “other” SP.
Go to GingerV’s São Paulo post
Posted in CITIES: Rio, CITIES: São Paulo, TRAVEL BRAZIL-Buses on 24 January, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I have been asked about traveling along the coast between São Paulo and Rio or vice-versa. I have never taken this trip; however, I have taken the bus from Rio to Paraty.
The normal bus route is inland, takes between five to six hours and via an express highway.
There is no one bus [...]
Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, TRAVEL BRAZIL-Buses on 24 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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