Interesting and exciting to the visitors of the Brazilian portion of the Amazon Forest is the geographic position of the capital of the State of Amazonas. Manaus is exactly in the center of the amazon area. Its total area is 14.337 square kilometers. The city is plan, many Igarapés (flooding areas) are part of the scenery, an average twenty minutes drive leads you into the forest from downtown.
The urban expansion goes into the Município, or department in some countries, of Rio Preto da Eva. The State of Amazonas’s total area is 1.558.987 square kilometers. Manaus is an important tourist destiny to Brazilians and all people around the world. These tourists visit the city, use it as a base to other journeys, studies, business, anyway, anything concerning the convenience of a big city. Including its plants, animals and natural beauty.
Near Manaus you can appreciate the ” Encontro das Águas ” where Rio Negro meets Rio Solimões offering us an unforgettable view.Manaus’ project makes it grow to the interior, so, this movement should preserve many of the borders of Rio Negro. Consequently, we still can apprecite some Iguarapés, small channels that cross or conquer land when the rivers in the Amazon basin go up in rainy season.
If ever there is a city to work, study and live in it’s got to be Cape Town. It’s the most beautiful city in the whole of Africa and competes with the best in the world as shown by awards that the city has won in the past. I just love living and working here where you wake up to the most beautiful mountain surrounded by the ocean and in just about 30 minutes you can find yourself surrounded by beautiful game in the most spectacular game reserves. The 2010 legacy of upgrades on our roads infrastructure will even fuel the city to be the best in terms of public transport. There is no where in the world i would love to live in than Cape Town it’s simply the best.
Although I’m not from Viña del Mar (”Vineyard of the Sea,” a rough literal translation), I feel I have to highlight this beautiful city, or “Garden City” as it is known also.
The big difference I guess with other cities, is that you get two cities for the price of one. Yes, TWO cities side by side, Viña del Mar and Valparaiso, each with its own personality, and the latter declared as a World Heritage by the United Nations!!
It is very close to the capital city of Chile, Santiago de Chile, so you can come to do some business in the morning and enjoy the beach by afternoon. I can not tell you how vibrant this city becomes in summer, they say seeing is believing or one picture is better than a thousand words”, so you have to come to see it for yourself, and you can be confident that you will be VERY VERY WELCOME!!!
Choosing to live in a city that you love is an entirely different affair from visiting a city for the first time and falling in love with it. The difference lies in a knowing of the landscape, like the lines of a loved one’s face.
Cape Town is a cosmopolitan world city, offering first class business and leisure infrastructure. Look closer, feel more and you’ll see and hear a uniquely African rhythm from the marimba bands in the V&A Waterfront to the colourful houses and call to prayer in the Bo-Kaap. The term fusion speaks of our past by telling of a history of colonialism and our present as people who use these influences to innovate and celebrate our unique creativity. Experience South African cuisine with a French influence, Cape Dutch architecture or South African jazz music. Let street art or a classical masterpiece turn your head, the divide between rich and poor open your eyes and a melting pot of cultures steal your heart.
I was born in Barbastro, Huesca, studied architecture in Barcelona, worked as a student in Belgrade and since 1996 live in Bilbao so I really believe I am linked to the “B” cities. During this 13 years Bilbao has changed a lot, from an industrial, grey place in the North of Spain to the Guggenheim city. I love Bilbao, very quiet city, not so rainy in those days, close to the sea but also to the mountains, good food…
Easy city. Water on 3 sides. Who cares what you make? What you drive? What you wear? Nobody here. Unpretentious. Great neighborhoods with personality. Grassroots spirit. Easy to meet people. Sunshine every day.
I live in Oslo because it is the only city in world where you can be just as close to the forest as to the sea within a radius of 10 km and still be able to indulge yourself in a buzzy nightlife with restaurants and bars, combined with a clean and nice environment! It is the best city to live:)
Except for a couple of neighborhoods bordering downtown and three or four blocks near the beach (20 miles out from downtown), everything in Jacksonville is drab, ugly office-park suburban sprawl. Distances are such that more people drive more miles than even in other Sun Belt cities, let alone the rest of the world. Almost everyplace looks the same. Crime is not the worst in the United States, but not great either. The closest thing to a research university here is the University of North Florida, which is basically a local school. People are not at all well educated; generally very working-class and politically to the Right of Attilla the Hun (unless they are black). The only positives: 1) a few beautiful old neighborhoods near the St. Johns River near downtown2) cheap real estate (though not by Rust Belt standards- you can get a house in a decent inner-suburban area for under 0K, but just barely)- and of course the weather is a positive for some.
I live here because my work is very specialized and so its not easy to switch jobs.
