I don’t think many Italians dream of having a German life as much as they want German wages. You’d have to pry the food, culture and climate out of their cold dead hands.
What do you mean? Wages are terrible and services too but it costs as much as Belgium and France, with a fraction of the salary. People often blame high taxes but in Belgium they are much higher and the country is as big as Sicily or Sardinia
Working in Italy is painful: you have to work for 9 hours a day since break is not counted in a workday, most companies are so small you have virtually no benefits and the family-like governance is terrible, and for a lot of companies you are expected to do overtime. If you work in restoration it’s even worse.
Italy is good/decent only for tourists and elders, but since most of the costs for younger people are paid by their parents it seems better than it actually is.
To add a fun fact: a friend of mine is very proud to earn 1.4k a month with lots of straordinaries and the liquidation pay (no thirtieth month)
I’m surprised life satisfaction is so high in Italy tbf
Yeah agreed. You always hear people complaining about literally everything, turns out we still are above the EU average though.
On the other hand over here everyone talks about Germany as if it was heaven on Earth, but apparently the Germans disagree with that statement.
I don’t think many Italians dream of having a German life as much as they want German wages. You’d have to pry the food, culture and climate out of their cold dead hands.
The one guy I know semi well who lives in Germany straddles this weird line of both hating it and loving it there
Here’s one theory: it’s because they live in Italy.
What do you mean? Wages are terrible and services too but it costs as much as Belgium and France, with a fraction of the salary. People often blame high taxes but in Belgium they are much higher and the country is as big as Sicily or Sardinia
Working in Italy is painful: you have to work for 9 hours a day since break is not counted in a workday, most companies are so small you have virtually no benefits and the family-like governance is terrible, and for a lot of companies you are expected to do overtime. If you work in restoration it’s even worse.
Italy is good/decent only for tourists and elders, but since most of the costs for younger people are paid by their parents it seems better than it actually is.
To add a fun fact: a friend of mine is very proud to earn 1.4k a month with lots of straordinaries and the liquidation pay (no thirtieth month)