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About 100k people seem to live there, I assume many of them with kids. I lived for different periods of a few years in two cities of similar structure and size
by merraksh 10y ago
About 100k people seem to live there, I assume many of them with kids. I lived for different periods of a few years in two cities of similar structure and size of ancient Florence and Atlanta, and found the quality of life to be much higher in the Florence-like city.
- willvarfar 10y agoDoes the mafia have any impact on daily life? In Naples, with the waste situation, I understand they make it hell.
- merraksh 10y agoYes, and increasingly in northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe [1], although it is barely felt by any citizen. The impact of such organizations goes from rigging construction contracts, for instance by imposing their affiliates' construction materials under the threat of burning the construction site, to controlling legal and illegal activities, such as the transport of toxic waste (which they just bury somewhere around Naples) [2]. More recently, members of both major parties have been caught asking votes controlled by the various mafias in exchange for favors. [3] [1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-vendetta-of-san-luca-in-duisburg-a-deadly-mafia-export-from-italy-a-500016.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-vendetta-of-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy) [3] http://napoli.fanpage.it/napoli-perquisizione-al-comitato-elettorali-del-pd-2-indagati http://napoli.fanpage.it/napoli-perquisizione-al-comitato-el... (sorry, couldn't find it in English)