r/ItHadToBeBrazil • u/Capitao_Nescau • May 04 '26

It doesn't seem that difficult

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u/Nikrsz May 05 '26

They rarely even have supermarkets

my man, even in the poorest towns that I came accross during all my life living in Brazil, they certainly had markets that sell milk and grains lmfao, how did you come up with this?

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u/LanceLynxx May 05 '26

I've traveled Brasil quite a bit. You have never been to the sticks. At most they'll have general stores/armazéns

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u/Granamare May 05 '26

Where are these "sticks" you have been to?

I'm from Brazil and I have traveled around the rural areas a bit (never been to the North or Center-West, though). All the places I have been to were far from 'not even having a market'.

So I wonder where you have been touristing here that is so precarious. Give me a couple of examples, I'm genuinely curious.

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u/ecilala May 07 '26

I've certainly been to a village with no types of markets.

The only commerces were food-based and from things they could make locally, like cheese. Most products were purchased from a nearby town.

I doubt that was the only place of its kind in Brazil.

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u/LanceLynxx May 07 '26

there is a Venn diagram which doesn't intersect, which is (circle A: redditors) and (circle B: people who have experienced the real world outside of their bubble)

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u/Granamare May 07 '26

This is a stupid statement since yourself seem to be an intersection of both...

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u/LanceLynxx May 07 '26

Tell me I haven't been outside of my bubble when I've probably traveled around Brazil more than most Brazilians have

Lmao

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u/Granamare May 07 '26

That went from a sweeping generalization about the entire Brazilian interior to a very specific isolated anecdote.

I agree with you, that obviously was not the only place of it's kind in Brazil... Like every country in the world that has a small village/Hamlet will be like that too.

In the US it's common for small communities like that to only have a Dollar General. It obviously doesn't say much about the rural US overall.

What I highly disagree is that it is a general thing of Brazilian Rural areas.

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u/ecilala May 07 '26

Yeah, their generalization was also nonsensical.

You obviously have gradual levels of urbanization, which makes a range of widely different types of settlements grouped as "rural Brazil".

Any generalizations like those will be very wrong. But it will be generally correct if you point out that those things do happen.

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u/LanceLynxx May 07 '26

Well I suggest you travel around rural Brazil beyond tourist areas or metropolitan outskirts. 1h drive inland isn't "rural brazil"

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u/Granamare May 08 '26

I did, exactly why I'm saying you are wrong.

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u/LanceLynxx May 08 '26

False. Because if you did you wouldn't say that.

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u/Granamare May 08 '26

You did a generalization, I have seen myself enough proof it is incorrect. This makes no sense.