empregada<\/em>.<\/p>\nUtility costs are relatively high. If they are not included in the rent, expect to pay at least another couple of hundred dollars per month for an average apartment with two or three bedrooms. Additionally, Brazil has a real estate tax which, depending on the contract, may have to be paid by the tenant.<\/p>\n
Rio\u2019s working class districts, the Favelas,<\/em> exist in almost all neighborhoods of the city. Some of them grow into giant communities with up to 500,000 residents or more living in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s poorer neighborhoods, such as Rocinha or S\u00e3o Conrado. Favelas<\/em> are home to exceptionally vibrant and diverse communities and the place of origin of most of Rio\u2019s Samba schools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the Favelas<\/em> are also rather problematic areas. The districts are constantly battling drug use, police brutality, and shootings. The latter are particularly dangerous as stray bullets tend to cause major damage. Recently the government has implemented a security project named UPP. The UPPs are Units of Peacekeeping Police, which remain inside the favelas.The favela\u2019s infrastructure has been improved, while progress in education and employment are positive signs of a better quality of life in Rio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until 1960 Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil when Brasilia became the capital. It is the second largest city in Brazil and one of the most popular tourist destinations in South America. And even though most people think of sun and beautiful beaches when Rio de Janeiro is mentioned you should be aware […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":16714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3298,1896,4039,5227,1721,4445,11439,31202,31193,31180,7277,31201,31200,1793,2100,7609,13689,8873,3622,3233],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/brazil-2910129_1280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38401,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions\/38401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38391"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}