In which 3 countries of Latin America would you prefer to live? (POLL)

[Costas]

None, as Great Britain is my home, and where I was born and raised, and so I relate more to the Anglosphere cultured nations and also to other Western European cultured nations. I can't relate to Latin American cultures, nor understand their languages in a variety of South American accents, nor culturally relate to their food and climate, etc, and so I would feel like a foreign alien living outside of my home country, and also I wouldn't like to live far away from the European cultures in Europe.

You've got every right to feel that way. Just two small things:

1.- If your answer to "which three" is "none" then why even bother replying.

2.- You say you can't relate to "Latin American food", but I've lived in Britain and there's no such thing as "British food". You guys eat A LOT of Indian food, Thai food, Chinese food and Middle Eastern food. Everyone eats curry in Britain. So to say "I can't live there because of the food" is rather laughable.

[Costas]

Also lower crime rates.

Chile's homicide rate is lower than even the U.S., if it were for those rates... your argument is badly elaborated.

[curupira]

So if you have no dangerous types of mosquitoes in Brazil, then why has there been so many international news reports over the last year about the Zika Virus in Brazil and the alarming number of babies being born in Brazil with suspected microcephaly or abnormally small heads since October, which has now reached nearly 4,000?!

The Zika problem is recent, it has one or two years only, it is believed it arrived here during our World Cup. It is under control. The only change I did is to avoid the most problematic areas, there are many others where it is not a problem here. You have to remember Brazil is bigger than the whole of Europe, so conditions can change from one place to the other. As for spiders, yes there are some. But I have never heard of anyone seriously hurt by them, and I am in my 30's already. My family on both areas grew up and most still live in rural areas, they have never had any problems with spiders or snakes.

[♥ Lily ♥]

There are poisonous skanes and spiders but not much (when compared to places such as Australia or Southeast Asia, f.e). My father and his 9 brothers grew up in a farm in rural Brazil and they were never hit by anything. Brazil does not have tornadoes, nor earthquakes. We are earthquakes free.

That's good because it must be terrifying to ever have the misfortune to ever experience being near a tornado, or a hurricane, or an earthquake. Don't you ever get scared if one of those dangerous types of spiders you have over there (such the Brazilian Wandering Spider) crept into your home at night and crawled near your pillow? I couldn't handle that. That's why I couldn't live in Australia either with all the deadly snakes and spiders over there and the burning sun, etc. Not my cup of tea.

[meninodeengenho]

Yes, but the snakes and massive spiders there are highly venomous types that can harm or even kill people. They're not like the totally harmless grass snakes and harmless tiny spiders we have here.

So why has there been so many international news reports about the Zika Virus in Brazil and about the alarming number of babies being born in Brazil with suspected microcephaly or abnormally small heads since October, which has now reached nearly 4,000?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35368401




Pregnant females are still being warned not to travel to Brazil by health experts due to the Zika Virus in Brazil causing loads of babies to be born with small heads?!



http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/...a-virus-brazil

Zica affects mostly Northeast Brazil (sadly, because it is the poorest region). For example, in my city (Mid-West Brazil) it is source of almost no concern.

[Costas]

Also an overwhelmingly amount of Brits hate British weather They complain all day about it

[curupira]

As for crime rates, I am still in my 30's, and I have lived all my life both large cities and smaller ones. Neither I nor my family, which is pretty large, have never had any problems. I have been lurking on these forums for years, and nothing ever happens. People forget crime is not uniformly distributed, even in major cities, it tends to be concentrated in certain areas. No one ever imagines the US is uniformly a dangerous place, even though people know some places there are actually very violent.

[curupira]

That's good because it must be terrifying to ever have the misfortune to ever experience being near a tornado, or a hurricane, or an earthquake.

Sure it is free of them, we even boast about it. We do not have any vulcanoes either!

[meninodeengenho]

That's good because it must be terrifying to ever have the misfortune to ever experience being near a tornado, or a hurricane, or an earthquake. Don't you ever get scared if one of those dangerous types of spiders you have over there (such the Brazilian Wandering Spider) crept into your home at night and crawled near your pillow? I couldn't handle that. That's why I couldn't live in Australia either with all the deadly snakes and spiders over there and the burning sun, etc. Not my cup of tea.

Well, if you sleep in the middle of forest this may happen to you.

[Spyy]

The Zika problem is recent, it has one or two years only, it is believed it arrived here during our World Cup. It is under control. The only change I did is to avoid the most problematic areas, there are many others where it is not a problem here. You have to remember Brazil is bigger than the whole of Europe, so conditions can change from one place to the other. As for spiders, yes there are some. But I have never heard of anyone seriously hurt by them, and I am in my 30's already. My family on both areas grew up and most still live in rural areas, they had never had any problems with spiders or snakes.

I think it was brought during Confederations Cup in 2013 by some oceanian country - tahitians probably - i dont know, Zika Virus arose in Africa and arrived firstly in some chilean island in S. America (but before Zika passed in Africa, Asia and Oceania) but the international media seems to blame only Brazil for that