São Paulo is the financial capital of Brazil, and also of Latin America. You will find in São Paulo everything you might expect in a big metropolis. Including pollution, of course. We recommend investment in real estate outside São Paulo. For the development of residential condominiums, and small farms, for Agro-tourism, and eventually for retirement purposes.

Security is not very good, compared to Salvador (Bahia), or to the southern cities of Porto Alegre, Florianopolis and Curitiba, but that is the price to pay to be in the most cosmopolitan city in South America.