I live in Manaus, where the Solimões meets the Rio Negro to form the Amazon proper. It's a water world with a city of over 2 million in the middle of it, and no land connections to most of the rest of the country. A wonderful, fascinating, sometimes frustrating place.
Salvador's a lovely city. My husband is about to get his law degree …
I live in Manaus, where the Solimões meets the Rio Negro to form the Amazon proper. It's a water world with a city of over 2 million in the middle of it, and no land connections to most of the rest of the country. A wonderful, fascinating, sometimes frustrating place.
Salvador's a lovely city. My husband is about to get his law degree and is jobhunting; the Northeast coast is a definite possibility for us.
Bolsonaro is worse than he's portrayed, hard as that may be to believe. This is the first election in which I get to vote, and I'm looking forward to voting against him. Manaus has been full of smoke for the past month, and I think it's because deforestation has picked up because the environmental criminals are afraid that he WILL lose, and are trying to destroy as much as they can, while they can. A second term for him would be an environmental, political, and moral disaster.
I don't mean to suggest that Australia, Canada, and Brazil have immigration solved: they still have problems (in Brazil, mainly resource-based), and there's the issue of scale. None of those countries are anything like the magnet for immigration that the US is. The US not only has to find the will to reform, it has to come up with the money. It won't be cheap, and the tendency ever since Bill Clinton left the Presidency for both parties has been to just issue debt for public services and let future generations worry about it rather than to ask people to pay their fair share. But that's a different discussion!
Thanks for the good conversation. Enjoy your weekend. 🤝
I live in Manaus, where the Solimões meets the Rio Negro to form the Amazon proper. It's a water world with a city of over 2 million in the middle of it, and no land connections to most of the rest of the country. A wonderful, fascinating, sometimes frustrating place.
Salvador's a lovely city. My husband is about to get his law degree and is jobhunting; the Northeast coast is a definite possibility for us.
Bolsonaro is worse than he's portrayed, hard as that may be to believe. This is the first election in which I get to vote, and I'm looking forward to voting against him. Manaus has been full of smoke for the past month, and I think it's because deforestation has picked up because the environmental criminals are afraid that he WILL lose, and are trying to destroy as much as they can, while they can. A second term for him would be an environmental, political, and moral disaster.
I don't mean to suggest that Australia, Canada, and Brazil have immigration solved: they still have problems (in Brazil, mainly resource-based), and there's the issue of scale. None of those countries are anything like the magnet for immigration that the US is. The US not only has to find the will to reform, it has to come up with the money. It won't be cheap, and the tendency ever since Bill Clinton left the Presidency for both parties has been to just issue debt for public services and let future generations worry about it rather than to ask people to pay their fair share. But that's a different discussion!
Thanks for the good conversation. Enjoy your weekend. 🤝