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Originally Posted by UrbanImpact
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That's from the largest one, Paraisópolis, that grew right in the middle of the wealthy, city-garden style, Morumbi district.
Morumbi, however, has became an undesirable address for many reasons over the past 20 years. Very car dependent, a high crime rate (precisely because the presence of Paraisópolis), very strict zoning (no upzoning there). It still has plenty of rich people, but prices, relatively speaking, have plunged and are now below of more central, ordinary middle class neighbourhoods.
Even República district (Downtown),
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.544...7i16384!8i8192, with all the homeless problem, just surpassed Morumbi in sq meter prices.
In terms of such juxtapositions, I'd say Rio de Janeiro is even more marked. You are right in the middle of touristic and upmarket districts of Zona Sul and you can see slums covering the hills and the mountains around. In São Paulo it's basically Morumbi/Paraisópolis, but as it's far from Downtown, in a middle of an autocentric nightmare, no ones see it.