Fuck you, Italy
Nov. 22nd, 2005 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gothikmausI wanted to write about my weekend. I wanted to post pictures. I wanted to rave about how scorchinlgy HOT Bela looks in the "Mein Teddy" video.
But I won't. I won't because I'm just so angry right now. I really shouldn't watch the news while I'm having breakfast, it always ruins my day. Dear foreign people on my flist (that is, 90% of my flist), if you're thinking of coming to Italy on holiday, go ahead and do it, we've got beautiful towns, the weather's usually nice (the stress being on usually, so don't expect eternal summer or something), the food is good. But if you're thinking of moving to Italy to live here, let me tell you just one little thing: don't. Please. For your own good.
Italy is fine for a holiday, but it's hell to live here. We've always been behind compared to the rest of Europe, it was a common condition among Southern European countries, but while countries like Spain have evolved in the last decade, we stayed where we were. And the current government only made it worse. I've never been so ashamed of being Italian. Sure, I've never been particularly proud of my country, but things are ridiculous now.
We're the joke of Europe. And not a funny one. Our Prime Minister is a corrupted thief who collaborates with the mafia, owns 3 private TV channels, dozens on magazines and "indirectly" controls public TV. Cardinals and bishops have more power than politicians. Rents in cities like Milan are ridiculously high. When my friend A. from Berlin came to visit us last month he went to greet the guys with whom he shared a flat when he lived in Milan and told us that now they pay 490€ each for the rent. I don't remember if 3 or 4 people live there, but even if there were only 3, that would make a total of 1470€ a month.
What. The. Fuck. And it's even close to the Politecnico (technical university), so there are a lot of students in the area, students who have to pay almost 500€ a month for a room. My friend told us that he pays less than 490€ a month for a whole flat in Berlin. Sure, it may not be in the centre, but it's 10 minutes from the S-Bahn in the B-zone, just like his flat in Milan wasn't in the centre but was 10 minutes from the underground. And people wonder why so few students go to university.
I know that every country has its problems, but we're a desperate case. We're going to end up like Argentina, we'll wake up one day and have nothing left. I've always said that I want to go away, but recently my parents said they're scared of living in Italy too. I just hope that with the elections next year something will change. But Italians are so stupid that they may even vote Berlusconi again. If that happens, I'll seriously start thinking of leaving the country.
*sigh*
There. I needed to vent. See you tomorrow for the usual carefree, fangirly post.
But I won't. I won't because I'm just so angry right now. I really shouldn't watch the news while I'm having breakfast, it always ruins my day. Dear foreign people on my flist (that is, 90% of my flist), if you're thinking of coming to Italy on holiday, go ahead and do it, we've got beautiful towns, the weather's usually nice (the stress being on usually, so don't expect eternal summer or something), the food is good. But if you're thinking of moving to Italy to live here, let me tell you just one little thing: don't. Please. For your own good.
Italy is fine for a holiday, but it's hell to live here. We've always been behind compared to the rest of Europe, it was a common condition among Southern European countries, but while countries like Spain have evolved in the last decade, we stayed where we were. And the current government only made it worse. I've never been so ashamed of being Italian. Sure, I've never been particularly proud of my country, but things are ridiculous now.
We're the joke of Europe. And not a funny one. Our Prime Minister is a corrupted thief who collaborates with the mafia, owns 3 private TV channels, dozens on magazines and "indirectly" controls public TV. Cardinals and bishops have more power than politicians. Rents in cities like Milan are ridiculously high. When my friend A. from Berlin came to visit us last month he went to greet the guys with whom he shared a flat when he lived in Milan and told us that now they pay 490€ each for the rent. I don't remember if 3 or 4 people live there, but even if there were only 3, that would make a total of 1470€ a month.
What. The. Fuck. And it's even close to the Politecnico (technical university), so there are a lot of students in the area, students who have to pay almost 500€ a month for a room. My friend told us that he pays less than 490€ a month for a whole flat in Berlin. Sure, it may not be in the centre, but it's 10 minutes from the S-Bahn in the B-zone, just like his flat in Milan wasn't in the centre but was 10 minutes from the underground. And people wonder why so few students go to university.
I know that every country has its problems, but we're a desperate case. We're going to end up like Argentina, we'll wake up one day and have nothing left. I've always said that I want to go away, but recently my parents said they're scared of living in Italy too. I just hope that with the elections next year something will change. But Italians are so stupid that they may even vote Berlusconi again. If that happens, I'll seriously start thinking of leaving the country.
*sigh*
There. I needed to vent. See you tomorrow for the usual carefree, fangirly post.
