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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it is a poor country. We take our air conditioning and otherluxuries for granted in the US..[/quote]
Italy a poor country? It’s part of the G7, meaning the 7 biggest economies in the world! [/quote]

So. It's slightly more complicated than that.

The North of Italy is one of most economically successful regions of Europe, and has industries that are extremely well run.
The South of Italy is a corrupt mafia preserve that even with its roaring tourism industry, is way behind in terms of infrastructure and services. 
The North helps the South survive. It's a HUGE point of regional contention, because who wants their clean, hard-working North Italian euros going towards barely legal or extralegal organizations in the South?

This is Italy's problem.

whatever- such nonsense- Liguria is in the north and its a crapshoot and over priced and just awful compared to Sicily (which has eu funded roads/infratsructure which is MUCH better run ) the above  is only really true in the formerly Austrian/German speaking part of Italy. the infrastructure is amazing (the municipal pools in the dolomites are a joy)  but all the people there speak Italian with difficulty and say their mother tongue is German.  so I guess yes, the former Austrian parts of northern Italy pay for everyone else but the northern Italian Italian parts are corrupt as hell as well and the infrastructire is awful - ugh when you walk into the main square in Milan its like walking into hell, can they not plant some trees and have shade= like in Palermo ??? try managing these "hardworking northern Italians" the only worse workers are the French.

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