Not too difficult for all those foreigners you keep complaining about though, is it?
Sorry, but you might have to settle for something other than smoking cigarettes at a cafe all day. Which is what they all do there. I even you in Italian family in the neighborhood I was living in (Arthur Avenue, as seen in A Bronx Tale) that actually went to Italy with the notion of living there. They came back soon enough. They're older daughter told me that nobody works there, they just sit around smoking cigarettes at cafes all day. So the pictures are real I told her? Literally, all the scenes we see of Italy is that, people hanging out at cafes all day, smoking cigarettes like it was cool. France too. Apparently that's what they do in France too.
Granted, this is going a few years back, but I heard in the 1990s that 77% of the Italian population gets some degree of social security, which covers what we here call welfare. It doesn't mean that all those people are all unemployed and just collect welfare, but 77% collect it to some degree. Not only that, but if someone was born in Italy and moved abroad, if they go back every couple of years and maintain a residence, they're also eligible for that social security as well. I a couple of people that did this.
Now after joining the euro, I know there had to be cut backs, so I don't know how much of this stuff is still going on, but chances are, to some degree, it's still going on.
If you don't want to get a job, if you don't want to marry, if you don't want to have children, then that's your prerogative. But birthrates are in decline all over Europe, and Italy and Spain most of all, which is kind of funny because those two countries used to have the highest birth rates in Europe.
If you don't work and change it, somebody's got to make up the slack. Otherwise you will starve, nothing gets done, and Italy disappears.
So stop making excuses, pretend you're Syrian, and get a job.
