Will the olympics be a disaster?

[DonFerrari]

outlawauron said:

DonFerrari said:

Well, I guess the guy is just showing that the other one being hostile to brazil was pretending to live in a place without issues and that brazil is the end of the world.

And sure Brazil criminality, violence and corruption is over the top. My point is that the numbers are a lot inflated by internal killing between drug gangs. Sure USA numbers can also be inflated. But only looking at numbers can be deceiving.

Last year I have been to New Orleans (and before to Portland) and there were a whole bunch of drug addicts defecating in the streets, criminals walking the streets and a whole bunch of homeless (saw a lot of that in Las Vegas too) so USA isn't a lot better in all region (as much as Brazil isn't a lot worse than most USA regions) but if we compare Rio de Janeiro to Dallas it sure will be very bad. But if you compare São José dos Campos to New Orleans we are a lot better.

One colleague came from USA to audit us, and he received 10 pages of caution advisory (including crime, zika, etc) and were completely scared. After being here for the week he were totally fine with the place and said he feared New Orleans a lot more.

 

The plural of anecdote is not data. To claim New Orleans as a whole as very dangerous and unsafe place is just mindblowing. It has its ghettos, but the tourist sections are trashy and inebriated, not dangerous.

And Brazil as a whole or even Rio as a whole isn't the place you are making it out to be. So why don't you use your own conclusion in there...

And sorry about NOLA... but it isn't just a ghetto, very near the river on the french part, close to the hotel for several blocks it was almost a dumpster.