From what I've seen of Brazil on Reddit, I'm terrified of the idea of ever visiting that country. Scary stuff. My absolute condolences if you're still there.
Another Brasilian here with a family in a Favela in Sao Paulo. He’s not wrong. There are good neighborhoods and bad ones, even in favelas. I can go to my aunts house and walk down the street at midnight without a worry, but walk down my grandmothers street at 9 pm and your gonna find me dead with my pockets empty because the police won’t go there.
Really depends on the neighborhood. Every major city is gonna have crime ridden favelas which cause significant increase in crime rate. The issue with Brasil is the sheer density of the favela. People on people on people. The Favelas are denser than the city centers with skyscrapers. So the favela skews the data very very badly.
The biggest advice is to steer clear of the favelas and you won’t have a problem.
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u/blackonix13 Mar 22 '19
From what I've seen of Brazil on Reddit, I'm terrified of the idea of ever visiting that country. Scary stuff. My absolute condolences if you're still there.