[....] An ethnographer I know who worked among peasant communities in the Amazon found that many of the people he met were obsessed by the idea of moving to the cities. In view of the hellish nature of many Brazilian favelas – especially in the booming Amazonian towns – he wanted to know why. "You have a wonderful life here: the rivers are teeming with fish, your gardens are crammed with food, you work an hour or two a day to meet your needs. You can't read or write: if you move to the city, you'll have to beg or steal or sell your body to survive," he pointed out. "What you say is probably true," they answered, "but in the city you can dream." [....]
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