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I am from Naples, and we do have a bit of a thing for death, but I doubt the average Neapolitan knows any more than any other average citizen anywhere else.

I think people in Naples might, if anything, care and think less about death than your average person.

Neapolitan people, for better or for worse, tend to have a "day to day" attitude to life (which contributes to what makes the city a mess)

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Doesn’t a mess come from mafia controlling dumpster companies or something like that? By the way, I love this place called pizzeria da Michele. Best pizza in the world.

There was a crisis in garbage collection a few years ago, but that seems to have been mostly resolved by political change (effectively, a socialist, progressive, anti-corruption mayor).

The problem that the previous poster is referring to is more that people just don't care a lot about things like dirty streets, pollution, noise, chaos, crowds, etc. They are actually super relaxed about things that would cause people in other places to throw fits. But this also contributes to a kind of decadence.

I meant more on an 'essential' level. We have the problems we have, including IMHO the corruption you mention, because (among other things) we tend not to think very much to the future.

Oh and Michele makes hands down the most representative pizza of the Neapolitan style. It happens to be my personal favorite too :D

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