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Advantages: Many restaurants
Disadvantages: Pollution and traffic

Sao Paolo is the biggest city in Brazil, but it is not the capital, as many >people think. It is a metropolis with people from different origin, and there >are many Asian descendents too. This blend of origins and cultures makes it an >interesting place in terms of restaurants. Sao Paolo is also the largest >financial centre in South America, still, there are shantytowns and poor >people in the streets. In summer Sao Paolo is better avoided due ... Read review

Advantages: Good food
Disadvantages: Some assalts here and there

San Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and also South America. You may think that Brazilians like to stay in the sun and do nothing, but not in San Paolo. They work a lot there and the pollution is very bad. The best thing to do for me in Sampa (San Paulo) is to go out at the restaurant, you have restaurants for each kind of cuisine. My favourite is Porcao, which is actually a Brazilian one, but you can have different food, try in Bisciga the Italian ... Read review

Advantages: Variety of people
Disadvantages: Pollution

Sao Paolo is huge. I visited the Museum of Art of Sao Paolo, MASP, situated in Avenida paulista. I also spent a lot of time in the area of Libertade, where the Japanese and Chinese immigrants are based. We stayed at Hotel Isei and visited some of the local restaurants. It gives you a funny feeling to hear all these Japanese and Chinese-looking people talking in Portuguese. One of the shopkeepers told me that his family had gone back to Japan, where ... Read review