Here in Ticino (Italian Switzerland) we hate anyone around us, even ourselves (thereās a bit of rivalry between northern / southern Ticino, divided by the Ceneri mount).
Luganesi think they are better and the center of the world, despite being a very average looking and boring Monaco-wannabe town (especially Paradiso, awful place).
The general motto in Ticino: COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN.
But after all we love our other Swiss brothers (German/French), even if we often complain about them (especially the German or āzucchiniā how we call them lol). In fact, Ticino is the most patriotic Swiss region, voting results are always overwhelmingly anti-EU, anti-migration, pro-right wing (Lega dei Ticinesi / UDC-SVP) etc.
We have a bit of a more complicated relationship with our Italian cousins (many of them donāt even know that Italian is spoken in Switzerland but thatās a matter of Italian education, I guessā¦), but after all we like them too.
Venice is wonderful before Christmas (first half of December) and right after Carnival, itās very quiet and even San Marco square will be half empty. I went there every winter since 2019 and itās pretty much always like this. Plus the decorations are lovely!
Iām living in a metro area so I know what that implies. From what Iāve heard, Naples is as filthy as any tourist attraction, āsee Naples and dieā while seeing the same filth as in most of Parisā streets.
My father is really into nature sightseeing, but frankly, Iām more about culture and architecture than trees.
Advice taken. What aboot wine though ?
I wanted to visit that city but I gotta find a good out of season opportunity, dunno if September would be good (ie visiting the city without the crowd)
Yea. Thereās a lot of Milanesi that have second houses here.
No offense but in my experience people from Milan that come here for vacation are often rude so maybe thatās why.
This is true. Most of the places in Genova are really old, even in Tigullio everything is old
Well, its the same for ppl from capital here like me originally who are not so liked in around other areas of Finland if I slip few words of slang that are normal to me but not for them or let it hear otherwise. I think its universal for all major cityes aswell in the world
Ive given this thought in times why people would be stereotyped rude from major cityes and I believe it could be affected by how larger cityes have so many ppl everywhere that one would overwhelm themselves if tried register everyone around them so it would become sensical to try ignore others to a degree to not get overwhelmed of the sheer amount of people everywhere and also because everything sorta become as competition for best rent and jobs and anything we want etc we get cold and calloused to this constant state of fight and competition for everything. Someone from this backround could be seen as rude in smaller town if it isnt needed there and he behave similarly like is used to in larger cityes where its normal to go elbows first figuratively speaking. On other hand smaller towns also have their own ways of toughen people and them becoming closer community more closed to outsiders which could also be seen as cold or rude.
Swears in some languages just roll out from tongue so naturally like it was part of communication. Our spoken language is half fighting words like old sailors.
Itās not a cliche, itās the truth. We often donāt like each other from one town to another, for some old rivalry rooted in generations before, let alone north and south
Thatās until we start talking about Turin and Milan our cities are rival in many ways. But we all know that the truth is Turin is better in any way
Itās true for Svizzera italiana as well. The Cantonal government is pushing for municipal fusions but especially in my region they are usually rejected because āwe donāt want to be toghether with those others!!!ā even if towns are so close together that the āmainā town in my area is actually composed of 10 municipalities attached together, but refuse to be one bigger town.
The town should have around 50k inhabitants but only has 16k because all the surrounding municipalities (that are in fact part of the town) refuse to get together (Iām part of the problem since I voted ānoā twice XD).
our cities are rival in many ways. But we all know that the truth is Turin is better in any way 