Baby Abroad - Expat life in Sampa

Sao Paulo has far less dog pooy pavements than Buenos Aires (and probably France ). Seriously, I don’t think I’ve lived in a place with so much dog poo on the pavements. It was estimated in 2014 that dogs left 70,000 kg of poo per day in the city of Buenos Aires . Some days I could block it out, but other days it would make my stomach churn. So, initially, the pavements in Sao Paulo ( although also in a terrible state ) were a dream. Until…   … the other day when I was pushing my daughter in her buggy and drove it straight into a load of turd. And fresh at that. To be fair, the owner was about to pick it up; however I didn’t see her and as everyone walks so slowly in Sampa , I was just trying to get past and get on with my day.  Although the owner was kind of taking responsibility, she still let her dog poo in the middle of the pavement. Buenos Aires has a lot of stray dogs, whereas I have yet to see a stray dog in Sao Paulo. So from what I’ve seen, if Sao Paulo has ver...

I’m a pretty fast walker, usually because I’m running late and have underestimated how long it will take me to get to places. I honed my pace in my childhood, from the age of about four, when I had to run to catch up with my 6ft-dad walking to school. Pace is good. It may not always be relaxing but it gets my heart rate up and my muscles working. It seems I’m not the only one who thinks so. The pace of life, measuring pedestrians’ walking pace, had gone up by 10% in 2007, compared with the 1990s . Admittedly this research, led by Professor Richard Wiseman , is 10 years old, but by this logic the pace of life should be even faster now. I think this speaks for itself Well, not in some cities it would appear. I thought that people walked slowly in Buenos Aires , where we moved to from London in 2015. I was wrong. Since moving to Sao Paulo in July I have realised that many people here walk even slower. Sao Paulo is a great city, don't get me wrong. It's international,...