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As safe as Berlin
Numbeo Crime Index 44.8 — statistically equivalent to Berlin (44.6). Compare Rio 75.2, São Paulo 69.8. AI face-recognition cameras across the city.
Florianópolis · Santa Catarina · Brazil
54 km Atlantic island, 42 beaches — crime stats tied with Berlin. Nomad visa: $1,500/mo income or $18k in savings, whichever's easier to prove. Free public healthcare from your first residence card. A baby born here unlocks a Brazilian passport in ~3 years.
Numbeo crime — same as Berlin (44.6) & NYC (50.9). Not the São Paulo you've heard about.
More on safety →Why Florianópolis (and not Rio or São Paulo)
54 km long, two bridges, 42 named beaches, and ~50% of the area inside protected zones — Carijós mangroves, Serra do Tabuleiro, Lagoa do Peri, federal dune systems. Brazilians themselves vote with their feet: Santa Catarina is the #1 destination state for internal migration.
Numbeo Crime Index 44.8 — statistically equivalent to Berlin (44.6). Compare Rio 75.2, São Paulo 69.8. AI face-recognition cameras across the city.
Subtropical: hot summers (28–32 °C), mild winters (15–22 °C). No hurricanes. 42 beaches mean you always find shelter from the wind.
Hercílio Luz airport (FLN) with direct flights to Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Panama. 100 Mbps fiber under $25/mo.
A city actually being built
The question nobody asks before relocating: is the city actually improving? Floripa shipped ~$130M of new infrastructure in the last four years and has another ~$135M in motion right now. Dates, costs, and official sources for each below.
Marina & Urban Park Beira-Mar Norte
600+ berths · 140k m² public park · groundbreaking Mar 2026
Featured · marina
$65M project (R$350M) by Construtora JL — 600+ berth marina, 140,000 m² public park, 300,000 m² water mirror along Beira-Mar Norte. Final environmental license + city permit issued February 9, 2026; works begin March 2026, full buildout 4 years. 35-year operating concession. Ends 13+ years of waterfront-marina stalemate.
Delivered 2022–2026
7 projects · ~$130M+33,000 m² premium women's hospital + 100 specialty clinics + HubMed health-tech hub (24 startups).
$2.4M ground-side upgrade — covered intermodal bus terminal + premium parking with covered walkway to passenger terminal.
New admin HQ + R$55M ($10.5M) infrastructure expansion. Tenant count went from 60 → 128 firms (3,500+ direct jobs) since 2022.
R$9M architectural lighting on the 1926 landmark; bridge turns 100 in May 2026.
Storage capacity tripled. Drove 44% YoY cargo growth — Floripa = fastest-growing cargo airport in Brazil.
$5.7M project, capacity 1,500–2,000 patients/day. Same-day surgery + diagnostics, 300+ procedures.
14 ORs, 47 beds. First Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein managed-services partnership outside São Paulo.
Coming 2026 onward
4 projects · ~$135M+5.2 km exclusive corridor Trindade ↔ Centro via UFSC. ~$72M (R$389M) federal + IADB. 9 rapid stations + 20 shelters.
$94M binational PPP (Floripa + São José + FONPLATA). 8.25 km waterfront extension with new lanes, cycle paths, leisure zones.
35-yr concession + ~30% capacity expansion to 12,000-person events (covers 98% of Brazilian event sizes).
Twin-bore tunnel beneath Morro da Lagoa to relieve the chronic SC-404 east-side beaches bottleneck. Engineering project contracted 2025; construction not yet started.
⚠ Brazilian infra timelines slip. Treat dates as "officially announced" rather than "guaranteed delivered."
Sources: SC State government, City of Florianópolis, Floripa Airport, Sapiens Parque, and the city planning portal redeplanejamento.pmf.sc.gov.br. Verified May 2026.
Live like the locals
Floripa is the rare city where surf, kite, hike, paraglide, sandboard, dive, and play beach tennis all sit inside a 30-minute drive. The whole island is structured around outdoor life — the cafés open with the sunrise crowd at Lagoa, finish with the sunset crowd at Santo Antônio.
Water
Praia Mole and Joaquina are the surf classrooms; Lagoa da Conceição has the kite and SUP scene. Marina at Jurerê for sailing; Arvoredo Marine Reserve for diving.
Adventure
Joaquina dunes for sandboarding (one of the world's best). Morro do Lampião for paragliding. Lagoinha do Leste and Costa da Lagoa for trail-running classics.
Beach social
Floripa is the beach-tennis capital of Brazil — open courts on every beach, leagues year-round. Footvolley and volleyball pickup games run daily on Mole, Jurerê, Canasvieiras.
Wellness & fitness
Yoga & pilates studios cluster around Lagoa. Open-air gyms along the 7 km Beira Mar boardwalk. Two championship golf courses (Costão, Floripa Golf) and serious tennis clubs.
42 beaches · 1 island
Also commonly practised
A typical Saturday for a Floripa expat: surf at sunrise, work until lunch, beach-tennis league at 6 pm, dinner at the Mercado Público.
Cycling infrastructure
~90 km of bike lanes7 km Beira Mar Norte waterfront lane (separated from traffic), Avenida das Rendeiras Lagoa loop, Via Expressa Sul 5.2 km Phase-1 cycle path opened 2024, plus the long-distance Volta à Ilha recreational route circling the island. Floripa joined the Bike Itaú city-bike-share network in 2024.
Endurance calendar
7+ marquee races / yrHosted by the major series:
The surf alone is a reason
Mole and Joaquina for power, Praia da Galheta for hidden barrels, Praia do Santinho for long rides, Matadeiro for dawn glass-offs, Lagoinha do Leste for the hike-in reward. Whatever the swell direction, somewhere is firing. The Brazilian National Surf League runs Joaquina; Adriano de Souza's home break is Saquarema, but he trained here.
Beginners
Praia Mole north end, Praia da Daniela. Surf schools $15–25/lesson, board rental $8/day.
Intermediate
Joaquina, Campeche, Santinho. Reliable 1–2 m chest-to-head-high year-round, peakier in winter.
Advanced
Praia da Galheta (hike-in), Praia do Moçambique outer banks, Praia do Rosa (1h south, world-class).
What it actually costs to live here
We pulled these from actual expat spend reports — solo founder, partnered couple, family of four. Treat the numbers as indicative monthly outlay, not menu prices. You can spend more (Jurerê penthouses exist) or less (yes, $700/mo Lagoa hostel-style). USD, foreign-currency income assumed.
Studio in Lagoa, coworking, surf 4×/week
"Six months in Floripa with my family — extraordinarily safe, amazing food, $4.50 buffet lunches." — Mikkel Thorup, 🇨🇦
2BR with ocean view, eat out 5×/week, weekends in Praia do Rosa
"Sport-cars per square meter — off the charts. Jurerê listings sold out in 40 minutes." — Релокация Просто, 🇷🇺
3BR house, bilingual school, full health insurance, car
"Salvador felt like paradise. Then Floripa just felt like home — every Brazilian state is a different country." — Our Brazilian Life, 🇺🇸 family of 7
The legal path
Brazil's residency rules are surprisingly readable for Latin America. Two government websites do most of the work: Itamaraty (the foreign ministry — they handle the visa stamp before you fly) and the Portal de Imigração (the Justice ministry — they handle everything once you're on the ground).
We're not lawyers and this isn't legal advice — it's the plain-English summary we wish we'd had. Before you book a one-way flight, talk to a Brazilian immigration lawyer and double-check the current rules with the Federal Police's immigration desk (they're the ones who issue your residence card on arrival).
Brazil wants to see $1,500 a month in remote-work income coming from outside the country, or $18,000 sitting in a bank account — whichever proof is easier for you to produce. Good for 12 months on the first stamp, renewable once for another 12. Hard cap: 2 years on this particular visa.
In practice you'll send the consulate in your country: a passport scan, a criminal background check (≤90 days old, apostilled), a recent paystub or savings statement, proof of health insurance, and a Brazilian address (Airbnb confirmation works). If you're already inside Brazil on a tourist stamp, you can switch to this visa without leaving.
The digital-nomad visa doesn't roll over into permanent residency on its own — you have to switch tracks. The four common ways in:
The slow lane: 4 years of legal residency, basic Portuguese, clean record. That's it.
⚡ The accelerated path (Brazilian-born child)
After 1 uninterrupted year of residency as the parent of a Brazilian child, you become eligible to file the naturalization petition (Lei 13,445/2017, art. 67). Basic Portuguese + clean record.
Honest timeline: Filing ≠ passport. The Ministry of Justice typically takes another 12–24 months to process the petition, then you take the oath, receive the certificate, and only then apply for the passport at Polícia Federal (~30 days). Realistic total from arrival to Brazilian passport in hand: ~2.5–3.5 years on the accelerated track.
Your Brazilian passport opens visa-free travel to 170+ countries and full Mercosul mobility (work in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay).
Three doors into Brazil
Digital nomad (~6–7 yrs to passport, slowest but most flexible) · Birth / jus soli (~2.5–3.5 yrs, fastest, requires a baby) · Investor / real estate (~5–6 yrs, ~$95k–190k capital). Each path with every step, realistic timing, official source links.
Maternity & the citizenship shortcut
Two unrelated good things compound: Brazil grants unconditional jus soli (your baby is Brazilian Day 1) and Santa Catarina happens to have the lowest maternal mortality rate in Brazil with one of the densest concentrations of modern maternity hospitals in Latin America. Most expat-parents reach a Brazilian passport in ~2.5–3.5 years from arrival.
Your child
Day 1
Brazilian by birth (1988 Constitution)
Parents → permanent residency
Weeks
CRNM via Lei 13,445/2017 family-reunification
Eligible to file
+ 1 yr
of residency, then submit petition (vs standard 4 yrs)
Passport in hand
~2.5–3.5 yr
total. 170+ visa-free + Mercosul mobility
The medicine, plainly
Brand new · Jan 2026
Floripa's premium private maternity, opened January 2026. 19 neonatal-ICU beds, dedicated OB/GYN ER, private rooms, on-site genetics + fetal-medicine team. 64 births in opening weeks; ribbon-cutting Jan 28 2026. Part of the new MED-401 health complex.
Open the official site →
Imperial Hospital de Caridade →
Centro · 200+ years history. Private rooms, traditional standard-of-care option.
HU-UFSC →
Federal university hospital · research-grade SUS care. Used as the regional maternity teaching center.
Becare Hospital →
Albert-Einstein-managed day-hospital, opened 2024. Best for elective surgery + diagnostics, less for full birth-delivery.
Maternal mortality data: DataSUS / Ministério da Saúde. Brazilian-passport-by-birth: 1988 Constitution, art. 12. Family-reunification residency: Lei 13,445/2017, art. 37. Accelerated naturalization: same law, art. 67.
Built for trans-Atlantic life
Floripa sits on UTC−3 year-round (no DST shenanigans since 2019). For a US-team founder that means a 1–2-hour offset to New York — same business day, real-time Slack, no graveyard standups. For Europe it's a 3–5-hour offset with TAP's daily direct from Lisbon.
Working-hour overlap · each bar shows local 09:00–18:00, positioned in UTC
Ruler & first bar (London) = UTC anchor
~6 h
overlap with London
~5 h
overlap with Berlin
~7 h
overlap with NYC / Miami
~4 h
overlap with SF
DST shifts everything ±1h depending on season. Brazil dropped DST in 2019, so Floripa stays at UTC−3 year-round; the EU/US bars wobble.
From FLN airport
1-stop · USA
LATAM and GOL run frequent shuttles FLN ↔ GRU (~1h connecting flight). Total US East-coast door-to-door is comparable to a coast-to-coast US flight.
1-stop · Europe
TAP's Lisbon hub is the smartest connection for European travel — one stop, same continent.
Working for the world, from Brazil
Whether you're a salaried remote employee, a consultant, an agency, a content creator, or a one-person SaaS — the trick is the same. The personal-income path (worldwide income taxed up to 27.5%) is one option, but Brazil is the rare country where it's dramatically more advantageous to invoice through your own company than to be paid directly. You open a CNPJ (a Brazilian company), put it on Lucro Presumido, bill from abroad, and pay yourself the bulk as tax-free dividends. Effective rate falls to single digits.
Most other countries discourage this with anti-arbitrage rules (IR35 in the UK, AB5 in California, the EU's coming worker-status reforms). Brazil's tax code is built the other way around — and the gap pays for itself.
Worked example
≈ R$35,000/mo revenue. Service export = ISS & PIS/COFINS exempt.
| Annual revenue | $80,000 |
| – IRPJ + CSLL (corporate tax on 32% presumed profit) | −$6,100 |
| – PIS / COFINS (0% — service export exemption) | $0 |
| – ISS municipal tax (0% on exports per Lei Comp. 116/2003) | $0 |
| – Pro-labore INSS (social security on $380/mo salary) | −$1,400 |
| – Tax on dividends to you (0% — below R$600k/yr threshold) | $0 |
| Take-home | $72,500 |
| Effective tax rate | ~9.4% |
The setup
Open a CNPJ as a single-member company (SLU or LTDA). A local accountant ("contador") does it in 2–4 weeks for ~$300. Monthly accounting runs ~$80–150/mo.
The regime
Lucro Presumido ("presumed profit"). Receita assumes 32% of your service revenue is profit and taxes you on that. Combined IRPJ + CSLL ≈ 7.68% of revenue. Available up to R$78M ($14.8M) annual revenue.
The export bonus
Services billed to foreign clients are exempt from PIS, COFINS, and ISS. That's the difference between ~14% effective and ~8%.
The dividend gift
After the company pays its tax, anything you distribute as dividends to yourself is tax-free at the personal level. (Reform proposals to tax dividends were debated in 2024–25 but didn't pass — confirm current status with your accountant.)
This is general info. Real numbers depend on your service code (CNAE), your municipality, and edge cases. Hire a Brazilian accountant before you optimize anything.
Bringing kids?
The whole rhythm of the city assumes kids — beaches without rip currents, surf schools starting at age 5, bike lanes along Beira Mar, free public maker-spaces, and 12+ bilingual K-12 schools serving an international parent community that's tripled in five years. Brazilian culture is unusually warm to children in public — restaurants put out toys, strangers say hi, and "trazendo a criança" (bringing the kid) is just assumed.
Kids 4–10 reach playground-fluent Portuguese in 3–6 months in any local school. The bilingual schools speed it up further with structured Portuguese-as-second-language tracks for international arrivals.
EIF (full IB), Escola Dinâmica (5 island units), Colégio Energia, Colégio Catarinense (Jesuit, 120+ yrs). Tuition $570–1,240/mo per child.
Surf school from age 5 (beach-day kids' programs $15–25/lesson). Free Beto Carrero-grade theme park 90 min north. Sailing & SUP at Lagoa. Praças (neighborhood plazas) packed with kids until 9 pm — Brazilian kid-culture is genuinely public.
The vibe
Restaurants stock high chairs and free coloring sheets. Cafés have play corners. Beach rentals throw in kid-sized boards. Strangers wave at strollers. After Northern-European or US restraint, Brazilian warmth toward children can feel jarring at first — and then becomes the thing your kids miss most when you visit family back home.
Healthcare
Brazil is unusual: it offers universal public healthcare via SUS to any resident regardless of citizenship — including you, the moment you have a CRNM and a CPF — and a sophisticated private insurance market that runs at a fraction of US costs.
Floripa is well-served by Hospital Baía Sul, HU-UFSC, Imperial Hospital de Caridade, and the Unimed network. Most expat families combine SUS as a safety net with a Unimed or SulAmérica plan for fast specialist access.
Free at point of care, no enrollment limits. Covers GP visits, vaccinations, emergency care, surgeries, oncology, organ transplants. Famous for excellent emergency response and maternity care; weak point is wait times for elective procedures and specialists.
Indicative monthly costs in Floripa: $85–135 for a healthy 30-year-old, $345–460 for a couple with one child, $535–670 for a family of four. Unlimited specialist access, private rooms, no networks-from-hell.
Floripa has international-grade maternity wards: Hospital Baía Sul Mulher (newest premium private maternity, opened January 2026 with 19 neonatal-ICU beds), Imperial, and SUS via HU-UFSC. Out-of-pocket private birth ranges $2,860–6,670. SUS births are free, including prenatal care, with strong outcomes — Santa Catarina has the lowest maternal mortality in Brazil. Combined with the citizenship-by-birth path, this is why Russian, Argentinian and US families increasingly time their children's birth here.
Honest: Ingleses, the island's most populous neighborhood, still lacks a full hospital despite recent population growth. Locals rely on health posts and a 20-minute drive to Centro or Hospital Baía Sul. If you have small kids and pick the north of the island, this matters. New hospital under construction, no firm completion date.
Year-one health upgrade
Brazil is the world's #2 country for plastic surgery (per capita, after South Korea) and one of the global capitals of aesthetic dentistry and orthodontics. Floripa specifically has a dense cluster of clinics serving São Paulo's medical-tourism crowd at locals' prices. Most expats end year 1 having quietly knocked out the LASIK, the veneers, the crooked tooth, the thing they'd been postponing because it would've been $8,000 back home.
Veneers · 1 tooth
$250–$800
vs $900–$2,500 in the US
≈ 50–70% less
Invisalign · full
$1,500–$4,000
vs $3,000–$8,000 in the US
≈ 30–50% less
LASIK · both eyes
$1,000–$3,400
vs $2,000–$8,000 in the US
≈ 40–60% less
Rhinoplasty
$3,000–$6,000
vs $5,500–$17,500 in the US
≈ 40–70% less
Hair transplant · 3k
$6,000–$8,200
vs $13,000–$20,000 in the US
≈ 50–70% less
Smile
Veneers, Invisalign, lingual braces, implants. Floripa is dense with Align-certified Invisalign Faculty doctors.
Eyes
Refractive laser surgery, PRK, ICL implants, post-op care. Two surgical centers on the island, one regional gold-standard 2 hr north (Joinville).
Body
SBCP-certified plastic surgery (the gold standard credential), aesthetic dermatology, lasers, fillers. Verify membership at SBCP.
Cost of living & safety
The "Brazil is expensive now" story you read on Reddit is mostly São Paulo and Rio. Floripa specifically still clears as one of the cheapest livable Atlantic cities — Numbeo puts its overall cost-of-living index at roughly a third of New York's and just over half of Madrid's. All figures below in USD (BRL→USD at R$5.25, current as of May 2026).
Rent range · monthly USD
| 🇧🇷 Florianópolis | baseline | |
| 🇵🇹 Lisbon | ||
| 🇪🇸 Madrid | ||
| 🇩🇪 Berlin | ||
| 🇺🇸 Miami | ||
| 🇺🇸 SF | ||
| 🇺🇸 New York |
Numbeo crime index · lower = safer
May 2026 →| 🇧🇷 Florianópolis | 44.8 | baseline |
| 🇩🇪 Berlin | 44.6 | ≈ Floripa |
| 🇺🇸 New York | 50.9 | ≈ Floripa |
| 🇬🇧 London | 55.3 | ≈ Floripa |
| 🇺🇸 Los Angeles | 53.9 | ≈ Floripa |
| 🇧🇷 São Paulo | 69.8 | very high |
| 🇧🇷 Rio | 75.2 | very high |
Floripa is statistically tied with Berlin on crime (44.8 vs 44.6) — and significantly safer than NYC, London, and LA. The "Brazil isn't safe" reflex is correct about Rio and São Paulo. It's wrong about Floripa. A Floripa renter spending $1,500/mo lives like an NYC renter spending $10,500/mo.
Numbeo Crime Index — lower is safer
May 2026 →Florianópolis
44.8
Moderate · 151 voters
Berlin 🇩🇪
44.6
≈ Floripa · 973 voters
New York 🇺🇸
50.9
Moderate
São Paulo 🇧🇷
69.8
Very high
Rio 🇧🇷
75.2
Very high
Floripa is statistically tied with Berlin (44.8 vs 44.6) — and significantly safer than NYC, London (55.3), and Los Angeles (53.9). The "Brazil isn't safe" reflex is correct about Rio and São Paulo. It's wrong about Floripa.
A few groceries (a fuller list on the prices page)
Inexpensive meal
$7.60
Cappuccino
$2.20
Beer 0.5L
$2.85
Internet
$21
Chicken 1kg
$3.90
Bread 500g
$1.50
What real expats say
Quotes drawn from 19 YouTube transcripts of foreign-born creators. We grouped by source nationality — what an American notices first is rarely what a German or a Russian notices.
"I've been to 106 countries in my life — Brazil is super special. The people will go out of their way to make friends with you. We had dinner for six adults and a kid: $103 with wine and dessert."
Mikkel Thorup · Expat Money Show · "Six Months in Florianópolis"
"Florianópolis ist sauber, sicher, modern und in vielen Teilen fast europäisch geprägt. Hier leben immer mehr Rückkehrer aus Europa, digitale Nomaden und Auswanderer..."
"...clean, safe, modern, and in many parts almost European in character. More and more returnees from Europe, digital nomads, and emigrants live here."
Nicolas Kreutter · Einfach Aussteigen · Mirja-in-Floripa episode
"Santa Catarina was the most-chosen state in all of Brazil for internal migration this year. Brazilians from São Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul are moving here. We chose well."
Giu Lopez · "Is it harder for foreigners now?"
"I came to Brazil in 2019 to give birth to my daughter and we just stayed. Floripa has changed massively in 5 years — new airport with direct flights to Lisbon and Santiago, hospitals being built, our own little Silicon Valley at Sapiens Parque."
Ivan · Релокация Просто · Floripa real-estate guide
"Walking into a Brazilian supermarket is one of the biggest shocks a Cuban can have. We didn't even bring the ration book. There are condiments, there is fruit, there are persimmons we'd never seen."
Cubanos Viviendo en Brasil · Father's first supermarket visit
"Every state in Brazil feels like a different country. Salvador was paradise — slow, warm. Rio is electric. Floripa is the place where you actually settle."
Our Brazilian Life · "Are they INSANE?? Americans Moving To Brazil"
Quotes lightly edited for clarity. Translations our own. Full transcripts and exact timestamps are in the project research folder — every claim on this page is sourceable.
The honest section
We pulled this from the same transcripts. If a landing page only lists pros, you should close it.
Rents up ~60% in 3 years
Floripa got discovered. Studio apartments that were ~$170/mo in 2022 are ~$380+ now. Energy +13% this year alone. Lock in a 30-month contract early. — Giu Lopez, 🇦🇷
High season is brutal
3M tourists expected this summer (vs 2M last). Beaches crowd, traffic jams, prices spike. Locals leave the island for January. — Giu Lopez, 🇦🇷
Public transit lags
Curitiba and São Paulo do buses better. Floripa's road network can't absorb summer traffic. Most expats end up renting or buying a car after month 3. — Giu Lopez, 🇦🇷
Portuguese, not Spanish
English coverage is thin outside hotels. Spanish gets you ~70% there. Plan for 6 months of Portuguese before you arrive — your life gets dramatically easier. — Mikkel Thorup, 🇨🇦
Limited local job market
If you arrive without remote income, the local salary scale is brutal. Floripa works because you're paid in dollars, euros, or your own equity. Local salaries for senior tech (R$15–25k/mo, ~$2.8–4.8k) won't fund the lifestyle this page describes. Show up with a portable income or a fundable startup, not a Brazilian-CV job hunt.
Some leave
A 14-year French expat with 100M video views recently published "Why we are leaving Brazil." Common reasons: career ceiling without fluent Portuguese, distance from European family. Worth watching before you commit. — Olá Brasil!, 🇫🇷
Sources
Where the messy day-to-day questions actually get answered. Lurk these for a week before you commit.
Tightly curated. We dropped the channels that just visited Brazil once or are based in Rio / São Paulo / Salvador — every name below either lives in Floripa or has produced multiple Floripa-specific videos. Pick the one matching your language and life stage.
Mikkel Thorup · Expat Money Show
Tax / asset-protection lens. Spent 6 months on the island with his family. Best for high-earner founders.
Giu Lopez
Lives in Ingleses, runs a relocation consultancy. Most honest creator on the cons. Spanish-language.
Релокация Просто
5+ years on the island. Real estate, neighborhood deep-dives, citizenship-by-childbirth playbook. Russian-language.
The Wanderlover · Danielle Hu
Surfer, solopreneur, mom raising her newborn here while pursuing citizenship. Best for solo-female-founder profile.
Einfach Aussteigen · Nicolas Kreutter
Largest German-language emigration podcast. Floripa-specific episode with a German woman who emigrated to the island. Best for the DACH audience.
The Gringo in Brazil · Regan Zanes
Multiple Floripa vlogs from an American visiting and shooting on the island. Lighter / lifestyle angle.
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