> because the local economy doesn't offer sufficient opportunities.
no, it's because the culture is so 50 years behind the rest of the world that I don;t want to sit in a bar were people are still discussing about gay rights or gay marriage or abortion or adapting to an ever changing world or the "euro's faults", like there's really something to argue about it.
I don;t want to live in a country of trained monkeys trying to set the clock 100 years back and talking about how better fascism was.
Yes, it is.
Many will tell you that it is because there's more work outside Italy, but in reality works ethic is a direct consequence of the cultural heritage, not of the country laws or the abundance of job posts.
I don't see myself as a "typical Italian" anymore, quite the opposite, I find it rather offensive.
The common principles that had brought the citizen of this country together after the fascism and the war and made us opponents and not enemies, have collapsed.
If my job and my taxes (quite a lot higher than the average) are paying for the education or the health care of those people that want to ban vaccines or that protect castes and guild of all kinds, when not directly working for the mob, I'm outa here.
> Many will tell you that it is because there's more work outside Italy, but in reality works ethic is a direct consequence of the cultural heritage, not of the country laws or the abundance of job posts.
Interesting. I know quite a few Italian expats (non-software, mostly phds in sciences, mechanical engineers and the like), and they say there's literally nothing in their home regions (Sicily, Puglia) - but that otherwise they'd like to live there despite social issues.
no, it's because the culture is so 50 years behind the rest of the world that I don;t want to sit in a bar were people are still discussing about gay rights or gay marriage or abortion or adapting to an ever changing world or the "euro's faults", like there's really something to argue about it.
I don;t want to live in a country of trained monkeys trying to set the clock 100 years back and talking about how better fascism was.
That's why I left.