Luca: [00:00:00] I have drawn inspiration for today’s podcast from a survey that just came out
It’s about life satisfaction in Italy.
Anna: Mm-hmm.
Luca: It’s a little bit more complicated than that. It covers satisfaction with living. It covers particular parts of people’s lives, how happy they are with their relationship, with friends and with family and local healthcare.
And then it starts to get into topics that are more interesting to us as the purveyors of information to expats and retirees looking at Italy. For instance, how satisfied people are with pollution with crime. And then there’s some, there’s a couple of funny things, like how much people trust others.
There’s a little experiment about what percentage of people expect to get the wallet back if it was, uh, taken from there in the. Yes.
Anna: Okay. Jeg så en video om det. Der er nogle mennesker, der tager af sted i forskellige byer. [00:01:00] Jeg så, at denne pige tog til Oristano. Sole 24 Ore said that it’s the safest. So she went there and she, she started running the wallet fell like three times and always sat there like, here’s your wallet. She did the same in Milan and there was like a disaster. So like that.
Luca: Okay, so in Sardinia people give you back your wallet, but in Milan they don’t.
Anna: Yeah, the crime is like, it’s the worst city all over Italy.
Luca: So this is very interesting data we got. It answers questions like, who’s got the biggest issue with pollution? Who complains the most about traffic? As it often happens, the most interesting part is that, uh, the real data destroys the stereotypes we have about Italy.
Så jeg spillede faktisk et lille spil med fællesskabet i gruppen Expats in Italy på Facebook, og jeg spurgte dem, i hvilken del af Italien folk klager mest over, at de har svært ved at finde parkering? Der var åbenbart nogle, der blev sure, fordi jeg [00:02:00] ikke skrev Rom som en af mulighederne.
Anna: That’s the answer that I gave you when you asked me what’s the worst city for parking. And I said, Rome, it’s not, you also
Luca: think it’s Rome?
Anna: Jeg tænkte, ja.
Luca: Okay. It isn’t. Actually, I’m not gonna tell you now, I’ll tell you at the end of the podcast, a reward for you to stay tuned. Why don’t we start with life satisfaction. Where do you think people are the happiest in Italy?
Anna: In Sardinia, I’d say, because I love Sardinia.
Luca: Some people said Tuscany, some people said Sicily. Yeah, but you are very wrong. The region where most people are highly satisfied with their lives is Trentino Alto Adige. With an average score of 7.1 out of 10. You know, it kind makes sense. It’s efficient, clean, wages are high. Apparently people don’t care too much about the sun and the beach when it comes to life satisfaction.
Anna: Yeah, they are organized. It’s beautiful. You [00:03:00] have nature, beautiful mountains.
Luca: Hvad med den laveste livstilfredshed?
Anna: Jeg ville sige i syd, men ikke på øerne. Campania
Luca: Yes. You got this right in Campania, the region whose capital is Naples. Life satisfaction is at its lowest. Only about half of the people are happy with their lives. So that’s a bit sad, but still, 50% is not nothing. 55%. Let’s actually look at that experiment that you mentioned before.
Anna: Okay. Den
Luca: Jeg shoppede mit pung-scenarie. Den region, hvor folk har mindst tillid til, at deres naboer vil aflevere deres pung, er igen Campania, Napoli-regionen. Kun 30% af befolkningen tror, at naboen vil aflevere deres pung tilbage.
Størst tillid. I hvilken region tror du, at folk tror på, at tegnebogen kommer tilbage?
Anna: Jeg ville sige Veneto
Luca: Ikke helt, selvom tilliden er ret høj i Veneto. Okay. [00:04:00]
Anna: Den
Luca: højeste tillid til naboer er igen i Trentino Alto Adige
Anna: Okay. It’s not surprising. Yeah. I don’t know why it’s
Luca: Næsten 60% af befolkningen stoler på, at deres naboer afleverer deres tegnebøger. Hvad med tillid til helt fremmede? Hvis de tror, at en helt fremmed ville aflevere deres pung tilbage
Anna: Jeg ville sige 20.
Luca: 20%. No. Yeah. Italians don’t trust strangers. Nationally, it is less than 3%. Oh my, less than 3% of people think that a stranger would return their wallet.
Anna: Dybest set ingenting. Ja, det er det.
Luca: That’s not what people think about Italy. Right?
Anna: Nej.
Luca: Jeg er et venligt og tillidsfuldt menneske. Niks.
Anna: Helt sikkert.
Luca: Let’s look at another one . ISTAT asked couples if they split housework evenly?
Anna: Mm.
Luca: Mellem mænd og kvinder?
Anna: Ja.
Luca: I hvilken region vil du sige, at de er mest lige med husarbejdet?
Anna: Lombardiet,
Luca: Du har [00:05:00] ret.
Anna: Eller generelt, Norden? Jeg vil sige, at du
Luca: har fuldstændig ret. I nord er der meget mindre asymmetri i kønsforskellene, når det gælder fordelingen af husarbejdet, hvor Milano er bedst med en score på 66 ud af 100. Kan du gætte, i hvilken region det er mest ulige mellem mænd og kvinder?
Anna: Syden, altså Sicilien, Puglia...
Luca: Puglia ligger på 78,9 ud af 100 og er den region, hvor arbejdsbyrden mellem mænd og kvinder er mest asymmetrisk i husholdningen.
This one is an easy one I’m gonna ask you next. Friendships, which region? Do people meet their friends at least once a week?
Anna: Sicilien,
Luca: No. Campania again, Naples. The place where people don’t trust their neighbor, but the place where people hang out with their friends the most.
Anna: Okay.
Luca: Skal vi tage en til?
Anna: Ja.
Luca: I hvilken region klager folk mest over [00:06:00] luftforurening?
Anna: Selvfølgelig i nord, så jeg ville sige Lombardiet, ville jeg sige
Luca: nej. Nej, du tager fejl igen. Den region, hvor folk klager mest over forurening, er Lazio, regionen omkring Rom, efterfulgt af Napoli igen og Lombardiet. Milano ligger på tredjepladsen.
Så omkring 19% af de mennesker, der bor i regionen Rom, finder forurening et problem efterfulgt af 18,5 Napoli.
Anna: Because there’s always traffic.
Luca: There is pollution, but you know, that’s the people don’t complain about it. Where do people complain the least about pollution?
Anna: Den lykkeligste region?
Luca: I nærheden af syd
. Den sydlige del
Anna: . Okay.
Basilicata
Luca: Almost that second best. It’s Molise and Basilicata, where only about 4% of people complain about pollution. Yeah, because there’re almost there.
Anna: Jeg tænkte på Sicilien, men så tænkte jeg [00:07:00] på Catania og Siracusa are those places. So I, I said no, it’s not the, like, the right answer.
Luca: Where do people complain the most about noise? Like noise in their daily lives? It’s very noisy.
Anna: Ah,
Luca: Nej.
Anna: Ah.
Luca: Selv om det næsten var Lazio, der blev nummer to.
Anna: Okay. Første gang
Luca: Det første, du skal gøre, er at gætte ledsageren.
Anna: Campania
Luca: Yeah. Naples. So Naples people don’t trust each other.
Folk, venner, folk klager meget over støj. Det kan være støjende.
Anna: Trafikstøj eller generelt? Generelt,
Luca: Spørgsmålet er, om du er bekymret for støj.
Ja, det er det. Nå, men det er Rom og Napoli, folk klager mest over, og det er klart.
The quietest regions are the ones near the Alps, right? Trentino actually. Valle d’Aosta, yeah. Well, Valle d’Aosta, [00:08:00] very few people complain about noise in the Veneto. So again, north versus south, the answer to every question. And here’s another one, if we look at life satisfaction. On an age basis.
Anna: Mm-hmm.
Luca: Hvem er mindst tilfredse med deres liv efter alder?
Anna: Jeg vil sige i midten. Altså mellem 35 og 45.
Luca: You’ve got a almost to a T. It is people aged 35 to 44, only 59.6% are happy. And why is this? Well, actually ISTAT that looked into this. They are the so-called sandwich generation. They’re working, raising kids. Some of them have to look after elderly parents. All at once. They have the least amount of economic stability. So yeah, carefree. Italian life ends at 35 apparently. [00:09:00]
Anna: That’s pretty sad.
Luca: Ja, det er trist. Hvad er det, der gør, at vi altid ender med en trist podcast, ikke?
Så for at runde det af med svaret på det spørgsmål, vi havde fra begyndelsen.
Hvor er det sværest at parkere sin bil? Svaret var ja,
Anna: hmm.
Luca: Regionen Genova. Ja, det er måske ikke umiddelbart forståeligt, men faktisk er Ligurien et lille stykke land, meget kuperet ved havet, smalle veje, gamle byer. Så jeg kan faktisk godt forstå, at det er dem, der har sværest ved at finde parkering, men det kan være en udfordring at finde parkering i alle italienske byer.
Anna: I think all over the world, it’s not just Italy.
Højttaler 4: Hvis folk gerne vil have flere oplysninger om livskvalitetsmålingerne og alle de andre målinger, vi har om 1500 byer i Italien, kan de gå ind på magictowns.it og [00:10:00] bruge byudforskeren eller læse nogle af de vidunderlige artikler, som Anna har skrevet om disse emner og mange andre. Til sidst har vi en lille servicemeddelelse.
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Anna: Tak skal I have. Tak skal I have
Luca: Alle sammen. Vi tales ved i næste uge.
Luca: Farvel.
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