Original sentence: Approximately 1,500,000 people live in favelas in São Paulo and surrounding areas.Close to 1 million people visited the 26th Bienal in 2004.Floods are common in São Paulo, as a consequence of rare green areas and relative impermeability of the ground.Migrants, especially from the Northeastern region of the country, often move to São Paulo with hopes of a better life, but more often than not are unable to find work on the city's saturated market and end up living in sub-human conditions or returning to the regions from which they originally came.São Paulo's latest mayors were:.The Bienal is a cultural event hosted every two years.There crime ratio is high, and kidnappings and robbery are considered relatively common in the city
Edited sentence: A very common scene (that can still be seen today) is of 'nordestinos' (Brazilians from the Northeastern part of the country) arriving in packed buses, in the Bus Terminal of the city, in the search for a better life (ironically, it is also common nowadays to see these same buses to carry 'nordestinos' back to their homeland).Almost 1 million people visited the 26th Bienal in 2004.Approximately 1,500,000 people now live in favelas (Slums) in Sao Paulo and surrounding areas.Crime has suddenly increased, and kidnappings and robbery are relatively common in the city.Floods are common nowadays in São Paulo, as a consequence of rare green areas and relative impermeability of the ground.More to come in 2006.Some of São Paulo's last mayors were:.São Paulo was founded on 25 January 1554 by Bandeirante João Ramalho