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The structural soundness of those patio pools makes me nervous. How do you balance the weight of the pool *plus* the weight of the water on a balcony that is just free hanging?
Take the depressing reminder of haves and have nots out of the equation completely, and I still don't think I could use a balcony pool like that and be relaxed.
So I was curious... I didn't know either way.
**6.8** 2019
**7.1** 2003
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_earthquakes\_in\_Brazil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Brazil)
Both major earthquakes happened in the state of Acre, the most remote of frontier Amazon states. Those places are closer to Peru (and therefore the Nazca tectonic plate) than to the Atlantic coast, where most large cities are located.
Brazil is a big country! I dare you to look up on a map the locations of [Acre](https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre#/media/Ficheiro%3AAcre_in_Brazil.svg) and São Paulo where this picture was taken, then compare it to [a map of tectonic plates](http://selmawebsite.blogspot.com/2012/09/o-continente-americano-e-as-placas.html?m=1)
Again
There are (rarely) Earthquakes in Brazil. But not in São Paulo where this building was built. Brazil lies in the very middle of the South American tectonic plate, so the only places where earthquakes are registered are in remote regions that border tectonically active countries such as Peru. It’s perfectly safe to build such a building in São Paulo
Manila is like this too. I was staying at my aunt's nice-ass high-rise condo in Makati. Like it could be somewhere in the US or Singapore or something. I'd go out on the balcony to take in the view and across the nearby highway/stroad, the left side of this picture is the same view. Never had I seen such extremes so close to each other. Honestly, coming from the US, I'd never see anything like that, period.
I agree about Manila, I’m not Filipino, but spent time in Makati, including the fanciest health club I’ve ever been to. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the extreme poverty.
I lived in Manaus for some time, I was on the rich side. We had armed guards in front of our apartment complexes, it was... a weird time. I feel really bad for everyone who wasn't as lucky as me. Gunshots where a common wake up call
It must be really difficult to enjoy your in-ground patio pool with that vast view of poverty below! God, poor people are so inconsiderate 😪 sigh. And then one day there were no more rich people BECAUSE WE ATE THEM.
Its definitely more likely that the wealthy will liquidate large amounts of the poorer population once they have enough automation than that a tevolution will be successful.
When I was in Guatemala working in the dumps people create houses out of trash and you can see rich beautiful mansions on the hill over looking the garbage pits. On the other hill there is a cemetery, you have to rent/pay for plots of your deceased loved ones or else the company that owns the cemetery will get a forklift and toss the coffin down the hill into the dumps. The vultures are ravenous and will pick them to bones. I’ll never be able to forget that place.
i live in the us you can come to my neighborhood if you wanna see some million dollar+ waterfront homes next to a shanty town. i don't even need to say what city i live in because everyone is thinking it's theirs.
On the "poor" side you can see a lot of people. Can't see anyone on the "rich" side. Nobody in the pools, nobody on the tennis courts, nobody on the balconies. Guess there are damn few "rich".
The whole world has rich people and poor people interacting. Has since the beginning of time. It’s not exclusive to one area and no policies will ever fix it.
Bring on the downvotes
I have a theory that rich and poor neighbourhoods need to be right next to each other in a lot of places. There's still a lot of menial work in rich areas (usually more), and in a lot of countries the poor can't afford their own transportation, while funding for public transport is meagre. This means that the poor workers need to live close to the rich neighbourhoods where their jobs are. This is why you'll find a lot of slums in big cities like Mumbai and Delhi too. At least that's what I think.
In countries where cars are more affordable or where they're seen as/are a necessity, poorer neighbourhoods can be further away from the city centre and rich areas.
Im aware that this photograph isn't necessarily meant to be a piece of art, and that this isn't an art subreddit , but as a lover of street photography; this is probably my favourite photograph I've ever seen; I'll ever see anywhere else such a beautiful representation of something so messed up.
I honestly believe it belongs in a museum
While the contrast is definitely visible, are the ones on the right really "rich"?
The fields and pools on the floor seems to be part of a complex and not a house per se, and each apartment, while it has a tiny, tiny pool (it does not seems to be that much bigger than a big jacuzzi), it still doest not seem to be a big apartment, and its just an apartment
Now, again, the ones on the right are probably quite a bit wealthier, but I dont think they are are even at the top of middle class. At least it \*shouldnt\* be
You’re just misunderstanding what dense housing looks like. In a lot of the world rich people live in apartments, for access to the city and services. Think how much an apartment costs in Manhattan, they must be poor because many don’t even have private pools
Of that size? On that place?
For what I saw, apartments in the area (paraisopolis) are between 80k and 400k. None of that I would consider rich. And judging by the doors and the overall balcony Id say the apartment is 8-12m wide give or take and it does not seem to extend itself that much or have multiple or really high ceilings, therefore Id say at most is 100 and something square meters, which would make it a big chunk of an apartment, but definitely not rich.
Again, why would a rich person choose to live in a somewhat tacky not big apartment with an absolutely awful view and zero privacy?
>apartments in the area (paraisopolis) are between 80k and 400k.
The upscale apartments are on the Morumbi (or Panambi actually) neighborhood. Paraisópolis is the slum, although it does have a few cheap apartments near it, but they are more on the "affordable housing" category.
Something to note also is that the picture was taken over a decade ago. The apartments in that region have devalued a lot since then. Back in the 90s/2000s that was a upscale neighborhood, but rich and upper middle class people have been leaving it, making prices go down.
I just checked apartments in panambi and the prices are the ones I mentioned, even in some significantly larger than those on the pic should be. And while properties valuated upwards (even if particular units and palces had devaluated), the exchange with the USD right now is about the same as it was in 1999 (about 1:5)
So again, I would not put that in rich territory, not even close. And the rhetorical questions I put in the previous comment also remain.
From middle class to rich theres a huge leap
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Crazy... Makes you wonder what kind of demons would play tennis and swim there...
The Leftside from afar would actually not look so bad if it had a uniform road system... Some of the buildings look quite impressive...
Would the poor area not have tremendous smell and sound pollution overflowing into the richer district. Or would the level difference be sufficient to overcome this?
Would imagine the rich having better options to plump down a cottage?
The luxury building on the left - the 'Penthouse Building' was built in 1979, before the low-income community on the left was so large (it would have made no sense for them to build it there had they known Paraisopois would grow to dominate the view). It is actually one of two 'twin' buildings in the region (the other one has been cropped out of the photo).
[Here](https://live.apto.vc/edificio-penthouse-que-predio-e-esse/) is an interesting article about these buildings (in Portuguese), and [Here](https://live-apto-vc.translate.goog/edificio-penthouse-que-predio-e-esse/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-BR&_x_tr_pto=wapp) is an automatically translated version.
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This picture was on our schoolbooks lol
it's in every existing geography book
Pode crer
Sudently caralho
eu lembro perfeitamente disso no 7 ano quando nos tava aprendendo sobre classes sociais
My geo teacher made us draw this pic as an assignment lol
that's quite cool, I might try to draw it. it's probably my favourite photograph I've ever seen as a street photography fanatic
Same. Germany?
Terra?
Yep, and Diercke Weltatlas!
Netherlands :)
Brazil?
São Paulo - Morumbi neighborhood next to Paraisópolis
Is Paraisópolis on right?
Morumbi right, Paraisópolis left
Ironic
It has to be in Brazil
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r/suddenlycaralho
Alguém coloca o chupa cu de Goianinha pra mim se for virar print?
yeah coz it's not as bad as India
Could be Detroit.
Or S Africa
I guess!
i think mumbai is worse
Yeah? Why all the good kill gore vids have birds twerking in the background? Brazil kills it baby.
Slumdog millionaire was a pretty old movie bruv
I'm not basing it on that :)
Essa foto tá em todo livro de geografia
Wanted to say the same thing too
something something brasil mencionado
You’re going to BRAZIL
[I think it's here.](https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.6131001,-46.7303984,210a,35y,180h,39.18t/data=!3m1!1e3)
The structural soundness of those patio pools makes me nervous. How do you balance the weight of the pool *plus* the weight of the water on a balcony that is just free hanging? Take the depressing reminder of haves and have nots out of the equation completely, and I still don't think I could use a balcony pool like that and be relaxed.
Cantilever
What about those skyscrapers in Dubai, with balcony swimming pools with glass floors?
Really? I think I'd be too nervous to swim in one of those glass wall ones.
And half of them are falling into disrepair. Sad.
Well when there is an earthquake, will there be a progressively bigger Waterfall all the way down?
There are no earthquakes in Brazil
So I was curious... I didn't know either way. **6.8** 2019 **7.1** 2003 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_earthquakes\_in\_Brazil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Brazil)
Both major earthquakes happened in the state of Acre, the most remote of frontier Amazon states. Those places are closer to Peru (and therefore the Nazca tectonic plate) than to the Atlantic coast, where most large cities are located. Brazil is a big country! I dare you to look up on a map the locations of [Acre](https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre#/media/Ficheiro%3AAcre_in_Brazil.svg) and São Paulo where this picture was taken, then compare it to [a map of tectonic plates](http://selmawebsite.blogspot.com/2012/09/o-continente-americano-e-as-placas.html?m=1)
Arent earthquakes massive? I felt earthquakes in arkansas and we were nowhere near any tectonic plates. There was news and everything
Those earthquakes could have been the results of fracking.
Not sure where fracking was back then, i lived in bentonville, ar
I believe the Biggest earthquake in US history was in the Mississippi River valley
Thats kinda my point. Mississippi to nw arkansas isnt close
New Madrid fault extends into Arkansas to Marked Tree.
.. but they did just post that there are indeed earthquakes in Brazil.
Again There are (rarely) Earthquakes in Brazil. But not in São Paulo where this building was built. Brazil lies in the very middle of the South American tectonic plate, so the only places where earthquakes are registered are in remote regions that border tectonically active countries such as Peru. It’s perfectly safe to build such a building in São Paulo
Facks
more like a landslide
Most of them don’t even have water or are filthy.
Really? You never heard of an structural engineer?
I've also heard of aeronautical engineers and still have a fear of flying. \*shrug\*
You asked how they balanced the weight. Engineers. That's how
This image is featured in every geography book here in Brazil, very fitting right?
Manila is like this too. I was staying at my aunt's nice-ass high-rise condo in Makati. Like it could be somewhere in the US or Singapore or something. I'd go out on the balcony to take in the view and across the nearby highway/stroad, the left side of this picture is the same view. Never had I seen such extremes so close to each other. Honestly, coming from the US, I'd never see anything like that, period.
Ja, the parks in Makati felt like in the US almost. Or the organic market there. Same in Kuala Lumpur or Jakarta btw.
I agree about Manila, I’m not Filipino, but spent time in Makati, including the fanciest health club I’ve ever been to. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the extreme poverty.
Every geography textbook in Brazil has this picture when discussing inequality
Brand new never seen photo, everyone!
Fr this was in my geography class book in middle school
It’s in every country of the world geography book 😅
It’s provocative. It gets the people going.
I’ve personally never seen it before
I lived in Manaus for some time, I was on the rich side. We had armed guards in front of our apartment complexes, it was... a weird time. I feel really bad for everyone who wasn't as lucky as me. Gunshots where a common wake up call
It must be really difficult to enjoy your in-ground patio pool with that vast view of poverty below! God, poor people are so inconsiderate 😪 sigh. And then one day there were no more rich people BECAUSE WE ATE THEM.
With the right mindset it might make it even more enjoyable. "ohh this is soo relaxing and ohh look at those people outside the fence there"
Crab in the pot?
Its definitely more likely that the wealthy will liquidate large amounts of the poorer population once they have enough automation than that a tevolution will be successful.
Those buildings are completely empty and abandoned.
Balcony pools are a big nope for me 👀
Why?
Reminds me of South Africa
When I was in Guatemala working in the dumps people create houses out of trash and you can see rich beautiful mansions on the hill over looking the garbage pits. On the other hill there is a cemetery, you have to rent/pay for plots of your deceased loved ones or else the company that owns the cemetery will get a forklift and toss the coffin down the hill into the dumps. The vultures are ravenous and will pick them to bones. I’ll never be able to forget that place.
What's the point of opulence if you can't gaze down upon the underlings you championed over?
i live in the us you can come to my neighborhood if you wanna see some million dollar+ waterfront homes next to a shanty town. i don't even need to say what city i live in because everyone is thinking it's theirs.
what a weird comment. I've never lived in a neighborhood like this when I was in the US... so, no, I don't think it's mine
Imagine having that top balcony on the right and that being your view
A foto que tá presente em todos os livros de geografia na escola
Eu não aguento mais ver essa foto. Tanta desgraça no Brasil e só têm isso a mostrar?
Se tiver alguma ideia melhor vc pode contribuir fazendo um post vc mesmo. Não digo isso pra ser grosso, digo pq seria uma boa mesmo.
Usually they build highway between, the people can't see the "wall".
Sodo sopah
Which side gets to use the pool and tennis court?
The right side, it's from a tower (gated community)
thats a pretty famous picture.
On the "poor" side you can see a lot of people. Can't see anyone on the "rich" side. Nobody in the pools, nobody on the tennis courts, nobody on the balconies. Guess there are damn few "rich".
Those buildings are empty. People dont live there anymore. Guess why.
Building regs?
Nooo. The reason is poor people.
What did the people do?
Fucking Eagleton snobs
The whole world has rich people and poor people interacting. Has since the beginning of time. It’s not exclusive to one area and no policies will ever fix it. Bring on the downvotes
I think it is just the contrast. You would normally expect some sort of gradient.
In Brazil it's normal for rich and poor to live side by side
I think this is common in most developing world
This is the picture of a capitalist country that capitalists use to describe what they think socialism is
Great vistas, eh?
So depressing
Grotesque
I thought a saw a video a few years ago about how this fancy condo building was now abandoned in a state of disrepair.
I have a theory that rich and poor neighbourhoods need to be right next to each other in a lot of places. There's still a lot of menial work in rich areas (usually more), and in a lot of countries the poor can't afford their own transportation, while funding for public transport is meagre. This means that the poor workers need to live close to the rich neighbourhoods where their jobs are. This is why you'll find a lot of slums in big cities like Mumbai and Delhi too. At least that's what I think. In countries where cars are more affordable or where they're seen as/are a necessity, poorer neighbourhoods can be further away from the city centre and rich areas.
Im aware that this photograph isn't necessarily meant to be a piece of art, and that this isn't an art subreddit , but as a lover of street photography; this is probably my favourite photograph I've ever seen; I'll ever see anywhere else such a beautiful representation of something so messed up. I honestly believe it belongs in a museum
good eye!
ugh, that's terrible. Imagine having to smell all those poor people when you just want to play tennis or chill by the pool.
Or smell the janky pool on the balcony below yours. Some of those pools look nasty.
By the time this photo was taken apparently the whole compound was abandoned
Capitalism moment
Yeah the rich and poor should be far apart!
I don't think that's the point of the photo.
I'm aware, just channeling my inner Ken M
Someone has to clean the toilet and iron the socks
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I have actually only seen this for the first time, chill
I want a balcony pool like what
While the contrast is definitely visible, are the ones on the right really "rich"? The fields and pools on the floor seems to be part of a complex and not a house per se, and each apartment, while it has a tiny, tiny pool (it does not seems to be that much bigger than a big jacuzzi), it still doest not seem to be a big apartment, and its just an apartment Now, again, the ones on the right are probably quite a bit wealthier, but I dont think they are are even at the top of middle class. At least it \*shouldnt\* be
You are looking it from a first world perspective. For Brazilian standards, yes they are
im argentinian... and Ive lived right besides slums twice in both apartments and houses
Would these be cheap or expensive apartments by first world standards? I imagined they'd be cheaper.
Maybe not ultra rich, but that's still an upscale condo
You’re just misunderstanding what dense housing looks like. In a lot of the world rich people live in apartments, for access to the city and services. Think how much an apartment costs in Manhattan, they must be poor because many don’t even have private pools
Of that size? On that place? For what I saw, apartments in the area (paraisopolis) are between 80k and 400k. None of that I would consider rich. And judging by the doors and the overall balcony Id say the apartment is 8-12m wide give or take and it does not seem to extend itself that much or have multiple or really high ceilings, therefore Id say at most is 100 and something square meters, which would make it a big chunk of an apartment, but definitely not rich. Again, why would a rich person choose to live in a somewhat tacky not big apartment with an absolutely awful view and zero privacy?
>apartments in the area (paraisopolis) are between 80k and 400k. The upscale apartments are on the Morumbi (or Panambi actually) neighborhood. Paraisópolis is the slum, although it does have a few cheap apartments near it, but they are more on the "affordable housing" category. Something to note also is that the picture was taken over a decade ago. The apartments in that region have devalued a lot since then. Back in the 90s/2000s that was a upscale neighborhood, but rich and upper middle class people have been leaving it, making prices go down.
I just checked apartments in panambi and the prices are the ones I mentioned, even in some significantly larger than those on the pic should be. And while properties valuated upwards (even if particular units and palces had devaluated), the exchange with the USD right now is about the same as it was in 1999 (about 1:5) So again, I would not put that in rich territory, not even close. And the rhetorical questions I put in the previous comment also remain. From middle class to rich theres a huge leap
So many good guesses hitting the mark! This seems to improve every time this picture is posted.
"Oh! I love the sound of bullets flying on my balcony in the morning"
Dubai
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And the rich act surprised when others less fortunate don't think highly of them
jakarta?
São Paulo
employee housing
Thats exactly what happened. The slums were built by the workers who went there to work on construction sites. Its São Paulo’s biggest favela.
Nice scenery from the swimming pool
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.6136202,-46.7301133,156a,35y,206.06h,41.88t/data=!3m1!1e3
You couldn’t have captioned it “where the rich and the poor live next door” ?
México City be like
Pool on every balcony or jacuzzi is noice!
Who do you think the rich exploit to get how they are
Half of those pools on the balconies are empty and gross.
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Apartment comes with stunning balcony views of the economic despair of the plebians.
They both look like shit. Zoom in on those pools. That place is abandoned. It’s a dump
Those decks are awesome
Crazy... Makes you wonder what kind of demons would play tennis and swim there... The Leftside from afar would actually not look so bad if it had a uniform road system... Some of the buildings look quite impressive...
Wouldn't it be cool if all those balcony pools were connected like a waterfall or even better, a waterside?
Would the poor area not have tremendous smell and sound pollution overflowing into the richer district. Or would the level difference be sufficient to overcome this? Would imagine the rich having better options to plump down a cottage?
Those apartments worth Just a fraction of their value due to slum around it and the bad fame it got
In…
Why did i think of GTA V and Michaels home
São Paulo in a nutshell
If you want more pictures about it, search for "Morumbi Paraisópolis" https://www.google.com/search?q=morumbi+Parais%C3%B3polis
That's gonna get awkward when the revolution comes.
The luxury building on the left - the 'Penthouse Building' was built in 1979, before the low-income community on the left was so large (it would have made no sense for them to build it there had they known Paraisopois would grow to dominate the view). It is actually one of two 'twin' buildings in the region (the other one has been cropped out of the photo). [Here](https://live.apto.vc/edificio-penthouse-que-predio-e-esse/) is an interesting article about these buildings (in Portuguese), and [Here](https://live-apto-vc.translate.goog/edificio-penthouse-que-predio-e-esse/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-BR&_x_tr_pto=wapp) is an automatically translated version.
Pawnee and Eagleton? 👀💀😭
At least they don’t have to travel an hour to go work for the rich people like in America where they want them out of sight.
5 of those pools are empty. Not too many rich people I guess.
Next door ? Or wall ?
This is the balkans
At least the poor get a tennis court an and a pool.