I`m so angry about Brazil and life

[LipeJJ]

BraLoD said:

LipeJJ said:

That's the thing. I agree that a lot of places in Brazil are dangerous, but not all of them. Not even close. If you say that, you must live in a somewhat dangerous area. Plus, most countries have dangerous cities/neighbourhoods/etc. It's not an excuse... it must be terrible to lose a friend that way indeed, but all I'm saying it that given the place he lived it's not really surprising and that it doesn't mean that ALL places here are dangerous like that. That's where I think people are overreating (let's face it: we, brazilians, are drama queens when it comes to our country... we like to criticize everything, even the parts that are good).

Basically every place aside of the South states are dangerous places, I live in a "cidade do interior" from SP, which are considered more calm, and shit is real around here, I don't dare putting up earphones to walk on the street at the middle of the day, and there is a police station pretty close my house (which was once attacked), we had organized crime issuing "toques de recolher" several times here and I had to take the buss almost midnight, during it, to get back from the university, and walk a kilometer home wishing nothing happened to me, my house was attempted for invasion at least a dozen times, the time I mentioned on a post above, in 2012, was right after they invaded a small marketplace near here, some of my neighbours had their house invaded, my grandma that lives two quarters from here had her house invaded but was gladly not there at the time, one of my friends was also held at gun point, tied, on his house right near here, twice, an armed guy robbed me and my friend while we were playing with kites when we were kids, a gun robbery for a fucking kite, we also had two guys steal another friend bicycle at the same spot two years before, I saw another friend being chased by an armed guy right in front of here as well, the guy passed right through me with the gun (gladly my friend escaped), then last year we had the shoutout right in front of my workplace that looked like a warzone...

And on Northeast and Rio there is way, way, way more shit happening, now even on ES just because the police wants a raise, shit is real there, like it was on Bahia/Pernambuco, some of this past years as well.

The South states are basically the only non-dangerous places around here, sure, not every city is a criminal chaos, but it's pretty damn dangerous all over this country, and we have insane death counts backing it up, so it's not really much of an exaggerarion.

Eh... I guess I'm the luckiest person in the world then. I live in Rio and was never robbed, and neither were my friends. Sure, I live in a great neighborhood, but still... I really don't fear going out there with my earphones on like you, and I see tons of people doing it daily (without getting robbed). I'll attribute that to my neighborhood then. .-.

Btw, I agree with you regarding the 3 south states... most places are pretty safe down there.