Ireland 🇮🇪 Italy 🇮🇹are the places I can get citizenship to, but no jobs planned or connections. Netherlands 🇳🇱 Is where I could get a work visa pretty soon and know some family. Which do you choose and why?

  • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Italy is amazing, I went once five years ago and it was one of my favorite places ever, so much so that im going back this summer. You just walk around pretty streets and eatta da pizza and other amazing food. There was also a very strong leftist/anti-fascist presence everywhere with tons of cool graffiti.

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Bologna and Reggio Emilia has been consistently leftist (as leftist as you can be with Gladio going around) since the fash went down. Turin has a cool DIY scene, so does Rome. Avoid Milan like the plague, as well as the more northern, historically reactionary bits of the country.

        • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Veneto

          Laughs in Friuli and Trentino-Alto Adige. Come for the spritz, leave because of the fash.

          Wrt to leftism in ER, my experience is that electoral politics are a fuck, as in the rest of the country, but the largest and strongest unions and farmer co-ops have a good presence in the region so I'd say that the average Emilian* or Romagnol* is more to the left of the rest of the country.

          • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Trentino-Alto Adige

            Weirdly/Interestingly enough, if you include Rizzo's Nazbols, it was actually the best region in all of Italy for the self-proclaimed radical left in the last election. 7% in Trento, of all places (4,75% for Rizzo's bozos and 2,29% for the Unione Popolare).

            Then again, red-brown-alliances are not the standard we should be looking up to.

            As for Friuli, I view them as an extension of Veneto. I mean, the full official name literally has Venezia in its name.

            the largest and strongest unions and farmer co-ops have a good presence in the region

            That's a neat thing indeed. I recently found out about a network of cooperative flower shops in RN lmao. Shame I didn't take much interest in the cooperatives when I lived there, as I was very much just a clueless baby leftist back then.

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Might depend where, but I'm pretty sure Italy is definitely the most conservative western European country. Gay marriage isn't even legal

    • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I agree. I enjoyed it the most between the 3 when I got to go to travel, but it all trips 5-10 years old.