Foreigners have a really distorted idea of Venice. The whole city suffers from high tides to the point where they have a different electrical system compared t

Foreigners have a really distorted idea of Venice. The whole city suffers from high tides to the point where they have a different electrical system compared to the rest of Italy. San Marco square is usually under knee-high water; a problem to which solution they spent €6B, but that didn't work out almost at all. Add the fact that the whole place smells like a sewer most of the time, and you have a better picture of what it is like. It might be a cool place for a 1 or 2 day visit, but definitely not a nice place to live.