Hello there.
I'm living in Brazil, but I can't handle living here any longer. At the moment I'm moving to Germany, but I don't want to live there out of respect for my grandfather, who had to move by himself to US in a hurry when he was 9 because of the war, his entire family died, the men fighting for Germany and the women in a bombing.
I'm looking for a country where people respect each other, some things that are habitual here in Brazil drive me nuts, the majority of people here have no respect at all, and I do not identify myself with the culture. I believe that "my right to swing my fist ends just where the other's nose begins", and I would like to live where people think the same.
I have absolutely no friend here, and my husband was killed because of a stupid traffic fight, our car crashed into another coming in the wrong hand and the driver just shoot him. He paid a small bail and is free.
My husband (he was american) left me a reasonable amount of money plus pension and insurance, and I'm going to sell our apartment and car. I'm young (22) and I plan to start a business. I want to live in Europe, North America or Oceania. Citizenship isn't a problem. Language, climate and economic situation are not important at all. Infrastructure is very important (good hospitals, security, internet, etc.).
We were planning to move to OR-Portland, but I don't know if it's a good option for a single woman. Also, my husband said there is a significant amount of disrespectful people in US, proportionally more than in western Europe countries.
I would like to hear what you have to say about your country. Not as a tourist, because the impression tourists have of countries has nothing to do with reality, but as an inhabitant, preferably long-term.
I already though about Japan and South Korea, but their culture is very different. Not that I dislike the eastern culture, but I think I will never get used to it.
Thank you in advance.
It's not necessary to read the text below, it explains some things that I dislike about Brazil:
Most days I can't even park my car in my condo because the owner of the lot alongside mine just parks his car diagonally, occupying two lots. There's no quietness, because there's always someone playing very loud music. I get mad when I see people doing wrong things, and some things that I think are very wrong are just normal here, they park in reserved lots (for elder/disabled) deliberately, drive on the roadside, drive unlicensed vehicles (like tractors) on regular roads, drive bikes without exhausts and cars with very loud sound that even my car shakes. They jump queues, they constantly interrupt a conversation, extramarital affairs are common, they tolerate unbelievable levels of corruption in government and business as well as stupidly high taxes, the entire country revolves around things that I'm not interested (soccer and carnival), law is almost not enforced at all (the police is very corrupt, and so the judges and pretty much the entire public sector). Brazilians are almost entirely apoliticals and are obliged to vote (according to a recent research only 36,5% remember the candidate they voted last election, and only 10% knows what they do), and doesn't have any basic notion of politics (e.g.: hundreds of people dies every day on queue of public hospitals, and the government is cutting off 55bi of social infrastructure, including health, while the government is spending several billions constructing roads and bridges in various countries in latin america and even a big port in Cuba - "investments" that will not generate financial return.). The people are just happy all the time, without apparent reason, it's morbid in my opinion. One of my neighbors was with a huge smile on his face only some days after losing his father. Outlaws here are celebrated and national heroes. "Malandragem" is the popular lifestyle here. (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malandragem)
I'm living in Brazil, but I can't handle living here any longer. At the moment I'm moving to Germany, but I don't want to live there out of respect for my grandfather, who had to move by himself to US in a hurry when he was 9 because of the war, his entire family died, the men fighting for Germany and the women in a bombing.
I'm looking for a country where people respect each other, some things that are habitual here in Brazil drive me nuts, the majority of people here have no respect at all, and I do not identify myself with the culture. I believe that "my right to swing my fist ends just where the other's nose begins", and I would like to live where people think the same.
I have absolutely no friend here, and my husband was killed because of a stupid traffic fight, our car crashed into another coming in the wrong hand and the driver just shoot him. He paid a small bail and is free.
My husband (he was american) left me a reasonable amount of money plus pension and insurance, and I'm going to sell our apartment and car. I'm young (22) and I plan to start a business. I want to live in Europe, North America or Oceania. Citizenship isn't a problem. Language, climate and economic situation are not important at all. Infrastructure is very important (good hospitals, security, internet, etc.).
We were planning to move to OR-Portland, but I don't know if it's a good option for a single woman. Also, my husband said there is a significant amount of disrespectful people in US, proportionally more than in western Europe countries.
I would like to hear what you have to say about your country. Not as a tourist, because the impression tourists have of countries has nothing to do with reality, but as an inhabitant, preferably long-term.
I already though about Japan and South Korea, but their culture is very different. Not that I dislike the eastern culture, but I think I will never get used to it.
Thank you in advance.
It's not necessary to read the text below, it explains some things that I dislike about Brazil:
Most days I can't even park my car in my condo because the owner of the lot alongside mine just parks his car diagonally, occupying two lots. There's no quietness, because there's always someone playing very loud music. I get mad when I see people doing wrong things, and some things that I think are very wrong are just normal here, they park in reserved lots (for elder/disabled) deliberately, drive on the roadside, drive unlicensed vehicles (like tractors) on regular roads, drive bikes without exhausts and cars with very loud sound that even my car shakes. They jump queues, they constantly interrupt a conversation, extramarital affairs are common, they tolerate unbelievable levels of corruption in government and business as well as stupidly high taxes, the entire country revolves around things that I'm not interested (soccer and carnival), law is almost not enforced at all (the police is very corrupt, and so the judges and pretty much the entire public sector). Brazilians are almost entirely apoliticals and are obliged to vote (according to a recent research only 36,5% remember the candidate they voted last election, and only 10% knows what they do), and doesn't have any basic notion of politics (e.g.: hundreds of people dies every day on queue of public hospitals, and the government is cutting off 55bi of social infrastructure, including health, while the government is spending several billions constructing roads and bridges in various countries in latin america and even a big port in Cuba - "investments" that will not generate financial return.). The people are just happy all the time, without apparent reason, it's morbid in my opinion. One of my neighbors was with a huge smile on his face only some days after losing his father. Outlaws here are celebrated and national heroes. "Malandragem" is the popular lifestyle here. (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malandragem)
). Downside is, they do have danish language out here and even tho you will be understood 90% of the time while speaking English, in order to fully integrate you would need to learn danish. But hey even that is taken care for you - if you do get into Denmark and you work or study in here, you will have 2 years of FREE Danish language course in any bigger town/city so if you any good in languages you will definitely have a chance to adapt. 
