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If media reports are to be believed, Canadians look to be a particularly unhappy lot right now. The recent bout of inflation and interest rate rises appear to have precipitated a specific phase of economic suffering that has spilled over into personal lives, and that misery appears to be uniform across demographic and socioeconomic categories. According to one survey, financial troubles, inflation, and high interest rates are having an impact on Canadians' mental health, driving concern about housing and food.  Millennials, particularly those who own a home, appear to be the most vulnerable to economic downturns as interest rates rise on tight debt burdens and economic damage wreaks havoc on the economy and expectations. Burdened by debt and rising housing expenses, three-in-ten Canadians are "struggling" to make ends meet, with mortgage holders reporting trouble meeting housing bills up 11% from last June. If you have a place to live, you struggle to pay your bills, and

Which State in the U.S. Attracts the Most Brazilians?

 More people from Brazil are moving to the United States, which has made Brazilian American communities more noticeable and easier to understand. In 2017, statistics showed that Brazilian immigrants are younger than other immigrants and a little older than people who were born in the United States. Individually, this group has a high level of education, works more often than normal, and is more likely than other immigrant groups to be fluent in English. Fourteen percent of Brazilian Americans aged 25 and up have at least a bachelor's degree, compared to thirty-one percent of all foreigners and thirty-two percent of Americans born in the United States. They are also more likely than the average person to be working and have better household incomes than both foreign-born and native-born people. A little over three quarters of Brazilian Americans work in service jobs, while the other quarter work in management, business, science, or the arts.

According to a study from Brown University, most Brazilians come to the U.S. with the plan to work for three to five years


Most of them wanted to save money so that when they got back to Brazil, they could buy homes or start businesses. This is what a "yo-yo migration" pattern looks like. Brazilians who live in the U.S. still have strong ties to their home country and often move back and forth between the two. The World Bank says that over $3.5 billion was sent to Brazil from around the world in 2020. Some well-known Brazilian Americans are the late singer and actress Carmen Miranda, the model and businesswoman Gisele Bundchen, and Fabrizio Moretti, who was born in Rio de Janeiro and plays guitar in the rock band The Strokes. The father of JetBlue, businessman David Neeleman, was born in Sao Paulo and grew up in Utah. Statistics show that not many Brazilians moved to the US before 1980. The first waves of movement happened in the 1980s and 1990s, when Brazil's economy was bad and prices were way too high. From the 2000s to the early 2010s, the numbers stayed the same. However, between 2014 and 2017, they went up because of a slowdown in Brazil in 2013. Along the way, they've brought their language, food, music, and other customs from Brazil.
Brazilians are one of the foreign groups in the US that has grown the fastest in recent years. From 2010 to 2017, the number of people coming from Brazil rose by 32.8%. From 2010 to 2017, the number of immigrants from Brazil rose from 340,000 to 451,000. During that time, this made Brazil the 12th fastest-growing place of origin for people coming to the United States.

In 1980, there were about 40,000 people living in the United States who were born in Brazil


This number had doubled by the 1990s and hit over 200,000 by 2000. By 2010, it had reached 340,000 and by 2017, it had reached 451,000. In line with the idea that movement is mostly driven by money, most Brazilians who come to the US are from the middle and lower classes in Brazil. Brazilians with the least and most money are much less likely to leave the country. Beginning in the 1980s, the differences in economic situations between Brazil and the US made middle- and lower-class Brazilians want to move to the US. Brazil had hyperinflation, which made it hard for people to save money for the future because the cost of living was very high compared to pay. In general, wages in the U.S. were four times better than in Brazil for the same jobs, and the economy was also more stable. As of 2017, about two-thirds of people who came to the U.S. from Brazil were related to U.S. citizens. The second-largest group came for work. Restaurants, festivals, and groups that celebrate Brazilian immigrant culture can be found in areas with lots of people, like Greater Boston, Greater Miami, and Manhattan's Little Brazil neighborhood. 80,000 people born in Brazil live in Florida, 65,000 people live in Massachusetts (mostly Greater Boston), and 39,000 people live in California (mostly Los Angeles County). Over 50,000 Brazilians live in New Jersey and New York together.
Here are the biggest cities in the U.S. where a lot of people were born in Brazil:
51,000 in Boston-Cambridge-Newton
48,000 in New York, Newark, and Jersey City
47,000 from Miami to Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach
15,000 in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford
14,000 from Los Angeles to Long Beach to Anaheim
People from Brazil live in smaller groups of 8,000 to 11,000 in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta, and Philadelphia.
Northeast Miami-Dade County, which includes Miami Beach, Key Biscayne, and Bay Harbor Islands, is where most of the people who were born in Brazil live in Florida. Pompano Beach has a big Brazilian community, which can be seen in the many Brazilian restaurants there.

As a way to help Brazilian Americans find business chances, the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida was created in 1981


The Brazilian community in South Florida likes to grow strange fruits like cupuaçu, açaí, and jaboticaba, as reported in Edible South Florida magazine. People from Brazil who want a taste of home can buy this kind of food at local farmers markets. Brazil has always seen itself as a place where people from all over the world can come to live. During the 20th century, people from Portugal, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Japan, and many other countries came to live there. The movement of people out of Brazil is a fairly new trend. The military coup of 1964 sent thousands of Brazilians into exile, which helped start the process. Many of them came back after the pardon of 1979. More and more Brazilians have left their home country in search of better job chances over the last few decades. Five of Brazil's twenty-six states—Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Santa Catarina, and Paraná—have the most people moving there, but most of the other states are also affected. It is thought that the number of Brazilians leaving the country has grown by about 20% per year since 1987, when about 300,000 lived outside of Brazil. As many as 2.5 million Brazilians already lived outside of Brazil in 19951. Over the past few years, more people have left Brazil than have come to live there. Drawing on information from the U.S. Census of 2000, this paper looks at the social and economic lives of Brazilian newcomers in the U.S. and Massachusetts. The U.S. Census consistently undercounts people with low incomes and immigrants, especially those who are not legally present in the country. The number of people living in Brazil is definitely higher than what the Census Bureau says. The 2000 Census, on the other hand, was used for statistical breaks down because it had a big enough sample of Brazilians to allow meaningful comparisons.

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