my in-laws live in a pretty cool surf town called Saquarema, about 2 hours north of Rio. pretty rural, beautiful little town that occasionally gets epic surf, the kind of place that you would think you could relax a little....but no: they have kind of a walled compound on the edge of this big lagoon and at night, after dark, everything gets locked up and they release two big German Shepherds to patrol the grounds. nobody goes near the dogs except my BIL, so no one goes out at after dark at all. no way to spend retirement, imho.