🇬🇧 Advantages and disadvantages of living in the countryside in Brazil

My father was a farmer and my second home, therefore, was in the countryside. For a few years there was no electric light on the farm, but then the only thing that really changed was that we had a TV at home, with a satellite dish to get the signal from some channels.

Advantages of living in the countryside in Brazil, from my experience:

• Horses! 😍 I love riding horses. During part of my childhood I was very scared, but it is an animal that I always liked a lot. On my 18th birthday it was the glory when my maternal grandfather gave me an Mangalarga breed almost black, beautiful!
• Little traffic. Low noise. Fresh air.
• We consumed a lot of fresh chicken meat and something that I haven't discovered in the city yet: chicken blood in the sauce. As the kitchen killed the animal in the backyard, that was it. No, I will not buy the live chicken and kill!!! And I never found chicken blood to sell on the market.  😁
• The landscape. The last time I went there, in 2010, my grandmother's cowboy, who saw me grow up, asked if Curitiba was more beautiful than Barreiras. It is not.  I was lucky to grow up on a farm surrounded by mountains on all sides. Hence the name Barreiras. It was not easy to get there, the mountain road has some very tense stretches, but it was good and the place has that simple and unique beauty of the cerrado, with its twisted trees scattered here and there amid a half-height grass or parched vegetation.  .
• People are kind and welcome. Not all are kind, but if you go to someone's house in the countryside, be it a pawn or a farmer, they always serve coffees worthy of colonial coffee and it's rude to refuse. On these visits, prose runs naturally.
• Have parties! 😁 And it is better to know how to dance forró. And don't look at married women, if you're a man, as there is a risk of getting shot for it. Drunk red necks are not civilized.
• You can grow almost everything you need to eat in the yard. At home there were fruits, pigs and chickens, cattle, and in some stages we also had goats. We bought the rest. But you could have vegetables there. We didn't have it because we weren't raised eating it.
• It has internet and telephone. When I lived there I didn't have internet, but nowadays they have this benefit.
• If you think about buying land, rural tourism is still little explored in Brazil and is an activity that I recommend as an investment. The mentality of many farmers is still focused on agribusiness and most do not have the vision of how to generate other sources of income with that space.)
• Owls. (If you like the Harry Potter story, like me, seeing real owls at night near your home is an incredible experience. In the city you will hardly have such an opportunity).
• For those who have money to invest and do not have children of school age, it seems to me a more interesting option than living in a country town. Understand this by reading the disadvantages below.

Disadvantages of living in rural Brazil:

• The rural school (in the village near my father's farm) went only up to the 4th grade. Usually students from different grades attended the class together, because the school was small and there were few children studying.  Still, the cook's daughter studied at that school and continued her school life in the city, including college. And she returned to teach at that same school.
• There is no hospital, health post, bank, supermarket or bank card sales (credit or debit) or ATM. There are small markets in the villages, as well as in the cities, with the product options that local people normally use.
• The "culture" in the countryside is limited to television and radio.
• If you don't have a car, transportation options to the city are limited.

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Nycka, the Nomad