The book of Paraisópolis

FACTS AND
INFORMATION
• The number of people that live in
Paraisópolis is not too many, but
a lot. Somewhere between 11,743
and 1 million. There are 200,000
children and 7,149 to 300,000 or
more adults.
• There are 30,000 dogs and 800 cats.
There are 1,250 rats and 700,000
pigeons.
• The number of ghosts is hopefully
zero, but it might be a lot. If you
don’t believe in ghosts there are no
ghosts but if you do believe in them
then there are 300,000.
• The average adult in Paraisópolis
makes either 30 or 10,000€ per
week.
• The most common jobs in
Paraisópolis are barber, cook, food
delivery biker, doctor, babysitter,
caregiver and teacher. Many women
are cleaning ladies and many
men are bricklayers. There are
many sales clerks in candy shops,
clothes shops and other shops, and
also hawkers that sell all sorts of
things: snacks, candy, headphones,
chargers, cases, perfume.
• The average happiness of people in
Paraisópolis is 7 out of 10. Although
life conditions are not good, people
here are very happy.
• The people of Paraisópolis like
to eat food from all cultures;
feijoada, pizza, cuscuz (corn based
couscous), pastel (a thin, crispy
crust delicacy shaped as a rectangle
or a half circle which holds various
fillings inside before being deepfried
in vegetable oil), fish, pizza,
Malokero Burger, barbecue, rice,
beans, steak and fries, coxinha,
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