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He is 49 years old, has lived in Bairro Amarelo for ten years, with his wife and three children, ages 22, 14 and 3. “I had a coffee at Cova da Piedade. Then in 2008, I went bankrupt. I asked for insolvency and aid from the State, and the State helped me. I pay 30 and a few euros of rent, I work at Pingo Doce. People get used to everything and living here turns out not to be much different from living in a building. I even think there is more respect ”, he continues, there is time, it is not yet time to get in the car to pick up his son from school.
As always, he explains right away, here too respect goes hand in hand with fear: “If you have a problem with a neighbor who is making noise, call the police. Here things are resolved quickly, even if, if someone calls GNR, they show up four hours later and armed to the teeth, as if it were a poor neighborhood. Here the neighbors respect each other, I don’t know if my downstairs neighbor doesn’t have shotgun at home? I won’t make any noise ”.
After three years of absence, the same man who was still married, Pedro, 47, returned to Amarelo in 2017, to T3 where he grew up with his parents and two brothers, in the same building on Rua do Miradouro de Alfazina, in the The area where the neighborhood ends, the gardens begin and resist the ruins of a viewpoint over the river, with two steps less and without signs of tourist interest.
Loaded with bread for breakfast, on a day off as a bakery delivery man, he repeats the neighbor’s thesis, while one of the ground-floor apartments echoes one of the hits from Seu Jorge: “Here it is calmer, there in the middle of the neighborhood, there are arguments, beatings, it is better than going to the circus.” In addition, he guarantees, he does not find any problem in the social district, which has a basic school, cafeterias, grocery stores, butchers, greengrocers, hairdressers, a track where children play ball and the bus to the center of Almada, but laughs at the mention. the transfer of the Mayor of Almada to the neighborhood, also known as Pica Pau Amarelo.
