Sorry about that 400.000 issue.
Here in Brazil we use "."as you guys use ",". This usually leads to lots of confusion. We would type 4.000,00, instead of 4,000.00. You see?
I was saying that it would cost around U$400,000.00 dollars for a small apartment in the city here. Very expensive. Even for american standards. There is a funny website here called "Is there something wrong or are we rich", which they compare prices of awful Brazilian houses with incredible houses in other places, such as in America and Europe.
www.estamosricos.com.br/2014/0…Quite funny actually.
Yeah! I don't understand why you keep tolerating this kind of violence there. You live in a incredibly safe country. You guys should keep that way. Crime is never an alternative to poverty as liberals says. Crime is an opportunity that degenerate people see when there is no punishment or painful consequences. Even really poor and uneducated societies have low crime rate when the police and justice do their jobs. Simple as that!
Of course, there are other factors, such as the decay of morality, family and religious values. A society without moral constrains is sick society, where youngsters are more likely to pursuit the "easy life", specially without proper punishment.
Call me conservative, traditionalist or any other supposedly derogatory title. I take it as a compliment.
I am a very pragmatic person, and I respond only to facts.
Mexico has to deal with their own decision, such as the whole Latin America. After having US as a role model, most countries down here decided to follow a path of corruption and indolence. I am not being racist here. Again, there is no race issues involved. On several of these countries there are Europeans, Indians and Black people, just as America. I fight this "Latin" people concept. There is no "Latin" people. It is the same as saying that there is Europeans, including Spanish, Germans and Russians, or Asians, including Japanese, Chinese and Polynesians. I was born in Brazil, but I don't wear the Latin stereotype. I speak a language that comes from Latin, Portuguese, but I don't speak, nor understand Spanish. I don't like guacamole, salsa or tequila, neither anyone in Brazil. Well, I like tequila, but it is a foreign drink, such it is sake for Americans. hehe
The only common point I see in South America is the passion for poverty. People are so attached to the victim complex they can't be rich. I don't understand why. Neither Simon Bolivar, one of the most important figures in south America. He fought for the independence of several countries in Central and South America from Spain. He was following America role model (not some silly socialist bullshit as Hugo Chavez said). After succeeding and seeing that the independent countries were becoming even poorer than they were back the time they were colonies, Bolivar asked to himself: "Why?!" He couldn't figure it why. We still don't understand.
(No Bolivar, nor other freedom fighter in Brazil. We had the king of Portugal deciding to become Emperor of Brazil. We had a short lived monarchy, and later a bloodless, natural independence with no fight whatsoever).
America doesn't need immigrants. But again your generosity is an interesting thing to see. There is no country in the world that are so open for letting people in than America. You are just repelling the good immigrants. But it is beautiful to see the risks and the costs you guys accept in order to help people around the world. You guys see as natural, and you guys even let others see as natural. So much that people complain when it is not treated as natural, which is a complete nonsense!!!!
Brazil and several south american countries are overwhelmed by socialist mentality. The leftists overtook Brazilian educational system and the media in order to put in motion the implementation of a Gramscian plan to re-write history and facts upholding a Marxist agenda. Everybody here was brainwashed to believe in absurdities in order to allow government control from Socialists. What guys like Glen Beck and Michael Savage say it will happen in America, long ago is well established here. It is funny when I see Americans saying that they are crazy fundamentalists, when everything I see here is exactly what they say America will become. We are just a little further ahead of you guys. Mostly for having a more fragile institutions to fight for more traditional values. The funny thing is that I can say that without sounding like a right wing radical, since I am not an American and nor a republican and I have seen all those things actually happening in my country. No American can say that. Yet.