Think about all the free or cheap things in your area, such as a picnic in the park, window shopping, people watching, taking photographs, making nature trails, going hiking, seeing movies on the cheap night, etc.
At the start of the area's alternate-side parking time window, another agent unsheathed her computerized ticketing device, then scanned the street.
Instead, Sao Paulo's charms are distinctly urban: restaurants, museums, concerts, nightclubs, parks and window shopping along Avenida Paulista, the main commercial boulevard.
Vast new shopping malls looked out over empty car parks; every window in the grandiose residential developments encircling them still bore a white-taped glazier's cross.
But, just a block away, opposite a surreal amusement park called Window of the World – complete with a replica Eiffel Tower bedecked in neon Chinese characters – I discovered the dark, intricate warren of the Baishizhou urban village.
Turns out I had to disable "core parking" in Windows, and now it's fine.
But as she pulled her car out of the parking lot, windows rolled down, she heard the woman's voice again. .
The place could be a small café, that one bench or outlook in the park, a window seat, or basically anywhere you feel comfortable sitting for hours at a time to think.
Microsoft hit it out of the park with Windows 7, though, and is going to have a hard time convincing enterprise customers to upgrade to Windows 8. Windows 7 was nearly an instant hit.
Mr. Green was eligible for the team because of a drunken night shooting out parked-car windows with a BB gun.
