I'm right now living in Manila, Philippines but would like to try South America for a while. Maybe a year. So I guess I could afford the nicer areas in whatever city I chose. I want to get as high standard as possible for as little money as possible, but at the same time not lose too many comforts in the process. What is important to me? I am looking for that kind of class - Great weather lots of sun and not too humid - Acceptable level of safety in Manila I go for hour-long walks in the middle of the night without any threat whatsoever But it seems to me that there are no safe neighbourhoods there?
For example, Manila has Fort Bonifacio which is a quite large area with higher standard and safety than most major European cities. Can you find something similar in Brazil? Anyways, what are you recommendations? Out of these, which would fit me the best?
I love the weather of Natal with its sunshine hours. But is it too rural and simple for my taste? And the murder rate there is about 3 times as high compared to Rio de Janeiro. I hear a lot of negatives about north-eastern Brazil. Tiger Beer. Originally Posted by svedski. Originally Posted by Tiger Beer. That's a high income. You could protect yourself easily where you were to live. Protect meaning have a place to live with high security. As far as walking around for long walks in the middle of the night, I'm surprised you do that in Manila, but Brazil would have its issues with this.
Rio is probably your best, as it seems you have some pretty high end shopping needs and requirements. I"m surprised someone with a high income would have this as a requirement, as it seems like you could buy this anywhere in the world, with that kind of income, and it wouldn't be a need. I haven't been to that Brazilian city, but I'm surprised you'd write it off based on the 'looks'.
