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I live in Veneto. Once I went to a friend's friend small, vertival apartment in Burano Island, door at ground level directly in front of a public square. He liv

I live in Veneto. Once I went to a friend's friend small, vertival apartment in Burano Island, door at ground level directly in front of a public square. He lives there few months of the year. He told us how tourists went into his house thinking it was an attraction, making photos of his stuff like crazy. Once he had to threat an asian tourist with a knife to get him out. This is long overdue, I hope they succeed. Tourists has lost all respect for an old, hard to live, beautiful city, and for the (shrinking number of) people that still live there. On weekends from april to october Venice is almost unbearable for normal people.

mattlondon 4y ago
Why don't they just lock the door? I get that there is the view of "but why should I have to?" but that seems like a fairly simple solution to people entering a door they shouldn't. Plus obviously if it reduces violent threats from your friend then the world is also a slightly better place as a result.
- albertopv 4y ago
  Would you go in a house without permission?
  - mattlondon 4y ago
    I would if I thought it was open to the public (e.g. a museum or gallery or exhibition or something). Locks have been a thing for a long time so this is not exactly a new problem.
    - albertopv 4y ago
      It clearly was NOT a museum or gallery. It was a place like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4857329,12.4147932,3a,75y,345.55h,85.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1ganTZTvZK-L-Ku2zS6OTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4857329,12.4147932,3a,75y,34... Does that seems a museum? That's the problem with Venice (stupid) tourists, they think it's a open air museum, it's not, it still is a city with people living there.
      - mattlondon 4y ago
        To be fair, that totally looks like a tourist attraction to me. Where I come from the only places painted in bright colours like that are theme parks or children's play grounds. No "real" housing would be painted like that, so the assumption may have been that these must be for tourists because why else would they look like that? Of course different cultures are different though (this is why we travel in the first place - to see and experience something different) and things will therefore be different than they are back home, so people should check their assumptions when traveling. I guess what I am getting at is that people's cultural upbringing is different, and so their expectations are different. This is unconscious bias but for houses I guess. That is not to excuse people for entering someone's home without permission, but that does look like an attraction to me. Personally I would not just walk in unless it was obvious, but then everyone is different.
        albertopv 4y ago
        People should learn something before visiting a foreign country, especially a unique city like real Venice, not a cheap copy in Las Vegas. Or Gran Canaria, or Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Norway, Singapore, Mexico, Brasil... World cultures ignorance is staggering in some Anglo-Saxon countries...

mattlondon 4y ago

Why don't they just lock the door? I get that there is the view of "but why should I have to?" but that seems like a fairly simple solution to people entering a door they shouldn't. Plus obviously if it reduces violent threats from your friend then the world is also a slightly better place as a result.

albertopv 4y ago
Would you go in a house without permission?
- mattlondon 4y ago
  I would if I thought it was open to the public (e.g. a museum or gallery or exhibition or something). Locks have been a thing for a long time so this is not exactly a new problem.
  - albertopv 4y ago
    It clearly was NOT a museum or gallery. It was a place like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4857329,12.4147932,3a,75y,345.55h,85.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1ganTZTvZK-L-Ku2zS6OTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4857329,12.4147932,3a,75y,34... Does that seems a museum? That's the problem with Venice (stupid) tourists, they think it's a open air museum, it's not, it still is a city with people living there.
    - mattlondon 4y ago
      To be fair, that totally looks like a tourist attraction to me. Where I come from the only places painted in bright colours like that are theme parks or children's play grounds. No "real" housing would be painted like that, so the assumption may have been that these must be for tourists because why else would they look like that? Of course different cultures are different though (this is why we travel in the first place - to see and experience something different) and things will therefore be different than they are back home, so people should check their assumptions when traveling. I guess what I am getting at is that people's cultural upbringing is different, and so their expectations are different. This is unconscious bias but for houses I guess. That is not to excuse people for entering someone's home without permission, but that does look like an attraction to me. Personally I would not just walk in unless it was obvious, but then everyone is different.
      - albertopv 4y ago
        People should learn something before visiting a foreign country, especially a unique city like real Venice, not a cheap copy in Las Vegas. Or Gran Canaria, or Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Norway, Singapore, Mexico, Brasil... World cultures ignorance is staggering in some Anglo-Saxon countries...