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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
Salzburg, by the way, doesn't get talked about here a lot but it's a gem.
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It doesn't come up much on SSP, but it's very much on the tourist circuit. Obnoxiously so, these days.
In no small coincidence it's probably my least favourite European city amongst those I've visited. In spite of its obvious prettiness.
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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
When will Napoli happen?!?! This Covid thing and all transformations indicate we'll have rough times ahead, but Napoli will be discovered one day.
We should be the first, let's get apartments there, enjoy it while it's fun and not spoiled by mass tourism and when gentrification arrives, we'll become rich!
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Naples seems like an obvious candidate to become a "next Berlin" type of city; but I think the main barrier it has is that northern European cities are just
easier to live in for the largely-expat artist crowd that drives those sorts of trends. They're more English friendly and have less of the local cultural "particularities" that can be hard for outsiders to navigate.
Meanwhile, it has too enduring of an image of roughness and crime to attract the mainstream tourist hordes.
Good call on Palermo above as well. Some of those southern Italian cities can almost feel more like the tattered ancient cities of the Middle East or North Africa than they do anywhere in first-world Europe.