Ehm… the mafia??….. the economic boom in the north of Italy that completely fucked over the southern economy?…. Domestic abuse? Rampant homophobia? But mostly an atrocious economy— in Italy it’s called La fuga di cervelli which means “the flight of brains” where the people who get educated enough leave because of better economic opportunity elsewhere (I’m a full 1st gen Italian New Yorker btw)

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I used to live in Rome. Many parts of southern Italy are sad and ghetto af tbh

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Sometimes it’s not all about the view it’s about not having religious freedom or tyrannical government.

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GET ME OUT OF THIS FUCKASS STATE

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maybe because of what was going on politically… do you not understand what happened in italy. you would have left too

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The Italians who moved to NJ did not see that. That’s northern Italy, probably Piemonte or Alto Adige/Süd Tirol, close to Switzerland/Austria. Sicily, Naples, Puglia, Calabria do not look remotely close to that picture.

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I mean there was the Irish famine….

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This is New Jersey?

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I feel obligated to say NJ is a beautiful state. Those of you who think it’s “not that nice” probably think of Newark or Trenton. It’s be like saying Ohio is gross because of Toledo and Cleveland.

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how is this a confession

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That’s northern Italy. It was mostly southern Italians that moved here because life was harder

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