my family is moving from Recife to São Paulo

[gusl]

It's finally decided that my family is moving from Recife to São Paulo.

I was ambivalent about it before, since it can be quite a positive change for my brother, as far as opportunities and interesting people.

But to me, this sucks. While I didn't exactly have good friends in Recife, it was at least a good place to see family, extended family and acquaintances at the same time. It was boring, for sure, but any place is when you're somewhere between a tourist and a resident: there no novelty, but you also don't have enough involvement to make it interesting.

Still, I'm slightly disturbed by the news, even though my rational judgment about it was neutral and even though I've been expecting to hear this sooner or later.

So now, going "home" for family holidays will be weird... except that I imagine they'll go to the Recife home anyway, so I probably won't see them at their new home much.

Comments

perhaps the best of two places

[jozefpronek.livejournal.com]

I have never been to Brazil (although my country neighbors Brazil, it is more expensive to fly from here to Sao Paulo than flying to Paris or Madrid - that tells a lot about the supposed Latin American integration), but many people I know have fallen in love with São Paulo. Not because of the city itself (it seems to be polluted and ugly in many places), but because of the culture, the books, the city life, the cosmopolitanism of it. On the other hand, if your family keeps the Recife home, you can have the best of two worlds!