I visited the vulcano few weeks ago, it doesn't look that dangerous when you are on the crater, but then if you visit Pompei and Ercolano, well it's scary. The

I visited the vulcano few weeks ago, it doesn't look that dangerous when you are on the crater, but then if you visit Pompei and Ercolano, well it's scary. The eruption of 79 AD pretty much destroyed the city, fossilized corpses are still visible in the archeological site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_... Naples is the urban area with the highest density in Europe. An eruption of Vesuvio would likely kill at least 1-2 million of people and bring Italy and Europe to total economic collapse. If we could for once think logically and stop all the culture/tradition crap, we would migrate people out of this area. The Balkans are huge and deserted, with lots of areas with similar climate. Spain comes to mind too. Or even Italy itself. Obviously, the problem here is always the same. You have lots of people living in the worst possible places, but then if something happens is the State (hence tax payers) that have to re-build houses, pay for the emergency and so on. This is a huge moral hazard.