Life´s not easy in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro - Page 2

city dweller · #21 Posted **Jun 7, 2007, 3:20 AM**

THE VIEW!

squeezied · #22 Posted **Jul 14, 2007, 7:51 AM**

The Spraw!!

westak · #23 Posted **Jul 14, 2007, 4:20 PM**

Where are the favelas where most of the folks live?

Gordo · #24 Posted **Jul 14, 2007, 4:33 PM**

Crazy freeway...

Trantor · #25 Posted **Jul 16, 2007, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by westak

Where are the favelas where most of the folks live?

they dont exist, thats propaganda the american government makes about other countries to make its own dumb citizens happy

look pal, why do you INSIST on seeing favelas pics on every fucking Rio thread????

when I see a NY thread, I dont insist to see pics of Bronx or poor neighborhoods. American cities all have poor areas, that are this close to becoming favelas. Ghettos. Etc. But people do not complain if threads about those cities dont show these areas. So stop doing that with Rio pics.

The city is HUGE, and there are MANY AREAS, not only favelas.

Trantor · #26 Posted **Jul 16, 2007, 1:57 PM**

btw, there is a big favela there in the background, on the side of the hill. Rocinha. Are you happy?

skylife · #27 Posted **Jul 19, 2007, 4:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trantor

they dont exist, thats propaganda the american government makes about other countries to make its own dumb citizens happy

look pal, why do you INSIST on seeing favelas pics on every fucking Rio thread????

when I see a NY thread, I dont insist to see pics of Bronx or poor neighborhoods. American cities all have poor areas, that are this close to becoming favelas. Ghettos. Etc. But people do not complain if threads about those cities dont show these areas. So stop doing that with Rio pics.

The city is HUGE, and there are MANY AREAS, not only favelas.

Oh, calm down. And sorry but favelas are much worse than US ghettos.

SouthParkGuy · #28 Posted **Jul 21, 2007, 4:12 PM**

I want to see the favelas also; perhaps a set of photos that focus on them a little more next time to apease me.

excel · #29 Posted **Jul 23, 2007, 2:50 AM**

Beautiful place.

Trantor · #30 Posted **Jul 23, 2007, 1:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by skylife

Oh, calm down. And sorry but favelas are much worse than US ghettos.

thats not reason to ask for favela pics all the time, if so few threads focus on US ghettos. It doesnt matter which one is worse, few people focus on the bad parts of their cities and FEW PEOPLE ASK FOR BAD AREAS OF US/CANADIAN CITIES, dont see why it should be different with Rio.

skylife · #31 Posted **Jul 23, 2007, 6:30 PM**

Well I don't see why you'd play the childish "US government propaganda" and "US Americans are stupid" card because some guy annoys you. Now THAT'S dumb.

Favelas have a lot of charcter and people are interested in seeing them. I think Brazilians have a far more negative impression of them (along with a severe complex about them) than foreigners do.

Trantor · #32 Posted **Jul 25, 2007, 11:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by skylife

Well I don't see why you'd play the childish "US government propaganda" and "US Americans are stupid" card because some guy annoys you. Now THAT'S dumb.

no, dumb is to say I am playing that card. The US government propaganda was obviously a JOKE. And have I said americans are stupid? Nope.

But I am really right when I say that people dont go around asking for pics of the bad parts of american/canadian/european (are you happy?) cities.

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Favelas have a lot of charcter and people are interested in seeing them.

buy a ticket to Brazil and visit them. Or wait a thread about them.

But DO NOT spam threads which are not about them, asking for pictures of favelas!

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I think Brazilians have a far more negative impression of them (along with a severe complex about them) than foreigners do.

they are ugly areas with poverty. Should we be proud about them?

are you proud about your ghettos?? HOW MANY americans are proud about their ghettos and show them here?? Not many. There are FEW threads here at SPP about american ghettos and bad areas.

As soon as I see lots of threads about american ghettos, I might think twice about taking pictures of brazilian favelas. Of course, as soon as I get permission from the local drug lord to take pictures inside his area.

skylife · #33 Posted **Jul 26, 2007, 6:08 PM**

Relax man. Nobody thinks favelas reflect the entire way of life for the diverse country of Brazil.

DetroitSky · #34 Posted **Jul 26, 2007, 7:42 PM**

Beautiful.

Phil McAvity · #35 Posted **Jul 28, 2007, 9:40 PM**

What's with all the red markings in the pictures?

Regarding the favelas, it probably didn't help that the title of this thread is sarcastic. The person that requested pictures of favelas probably thought that's what they were going to see, going by the title.

I certainly did.

How could we have known you were being sarcastic?

Trantor · #36 Posted **Jul 30, 2007, 7:04 PM**

^i think the pictures were "found" in some real state site. Maybe the red markings mark the properties.

as for the title of the thread and favelas, I had not seen from this angle before. You are right.