Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. And some more here too:
   http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/07/25/the-venice-syndrome-reviewed-if-venice-is-sinking-will-the-tourists-want-to-swim/
   Is Vancouver the Venice of the Way-Way-West?

2. So what’s your point? I’d rather live in Venice than in SK. And it is probably better run, as well.

3. Judging from many of your past comments, I’m pretty sure most of us here would also favour your bon voyage!

4. I guess living on the water touched a nerve with me.

5. I hope you get to live there.

6. Heh, not only will he live there, he will rent a basement suite.

7. Yeah well, the main feature the clip reminded me of that Venetians consider themselves Venetians first, Italians second…if at all. Much like Spain, Germany, even France…..a century or centuries makes little difference….duchies/city states linger on…..
   And then some naïve twits think the ideal of nationalism can ever exist in the ME or Mahgreb….in practical terms. The only genuine Nation-state on the Mediterranean is Israel.
   They all loath tourists……….
   My dad thought it was wise to distrust anybody that hailed from a country touching the Med….but then he was a Brit…..
   I don’t discriminate….I hate everybody…….

8. I’ve actually been to Venice. It was the only city I’ve ever been to where a ticket-seller for public transit tried to short-change us. Even in Bucharest the much worse-paid staff never tried that.
   My wife, who has some Italian, had to remind him what change we were owed when he “forgot” to give us correct change for a 50 euro note, and we trying to buy passes for the waterbus. He handed it over but if looks could kill neither of us would have made it home.
   (The waterbus, by the way, gets most people everywhere they need to go, is much cheaper than a gondola, and you see everything just as well as the rich idiots on the gondolas do.)
   It isn’t news to anybody who’s ever seen the place or looked into it much that Venice is a crumbling port town and tourist trap that has seen half its population leave in the last generation—Detroit on the Adriatic—and attracts nobody to replace them but rich banksters wanting second apartments for their mistresses. That the banksters aren’t simply foreclosing and throwing out the holdouts (yet) isn’t reassuring to anybody with an interest in its future.
   My wife couldn’t help but love it, but I’m not going again if I have a choice. Theme parks aren’t worth visiting more than once. Go to any of a number of pretty Adriatic port towns in Croatia instead. You’ll save a small fortune and the Croatian ports look more like how people imagine Venice than Venice has in a very long time.