I’ve been having a look at real estate. Bit of property porn, why not?
Well, the ads for real estate then follow you around the internet, that’s why not.
Still, having a look and all that. And I see that the little area just north of where I spent a couple of years of my childhood is very cheap. 20 km or so north of Pozzuoli/Arco Felice is Castel Volturno. On the Med, sandy beaches, in Italy, obviously. €30k for a perfectly fine 2 or 3 bedder seaside house. 200 metres say from the beach.
Umm, what? That 20 km south that’s 10x that and more. And Arco Felice, while nice enough, ain’t exactly Capri.
Had me about to check flights to see whether that was viable as a place (it ain’t, there’s a stunning lack of east west flights across the Med) but thought I’d better have a thought more. There’s got to be a reason for such a wild price differential. And why would a coastal resort just by Naples – and within easy enough reach of Rome – be so cheap?
Ah:
In 2010 Castel Volturno was inhabited by 25,000 locals and about 18,000 African refugees. Today (2019) there are still about 25,000 people, estimated two-thirds of them are immigrants.[3]
Due to a decision of the Regional Council (Consiglio Regionale della Campania) from 2010, the quarter Villaggio Coppola, which is also the third largest illegally built residential complex in the world, should actually be demolished.[4] Today (2019) it is inhabited by destitute Italian and African squatters.
An interesting datum point in the idea that diversity makes us rich, eh?
2/3 immigrants isn’t diversity, it’s the complete opposite.
It is really jgh. I mean a few thousand from Somalia, a few from Eritrea, some Ethiopians and Sudanese thrown in… er….
“Well, the ads for real estate then follow you around the internet, that’s why not. ”
And you couldn’t find adverts more factual, honest & unlikely to deceive than real estate ads could you?
Come to think of it, I copped one on the right of this very page, a few days ago. By the ad one would have thought it was a stunningly low price apartment in a very desirable apartment block. It was in fact to buy a parking space. Clicking on it didn’t even produce a photo of the space, just an exterior of the block. So one presumes it was constructed to accommodate a SEAT 500 & is entered by reversing around a concrete pillar from a narrow aisle.
Diversity is a weakness – not a strength.
Diversity makes us rich: government makes us poor. In Italy you need a work permit to be allowed to work, without which you will be destitute unless you have some other source of income. Illegal immigrants are not know for having large stock market portfolios or for being landlords of valuable property, so their poverty is caused by government.
If you think diversity is a weakness, presumably all your tables and chairs have only one leg each.
And if you want to research a topic without later being bombarded with ads, use a fresh profile. In Firefox, type “about:profiles” into the address bar and create a new one and use that. All cookies etc get stored there. It’s like you’re a different person. Similarly, in Chrome click the “you” icon (a bit like a person’s head), and “Add” another profile.
If you think diversity is a weakness, presumably all your tables and chairs have only one leg each.
. . . . the fuck?
Most tables (and chairs) will be supported by several legs of a very similar design, not two made from different woods, one from a stuffed antelope shin and the other an undercarriage strut from an ME109.