I was just in Italy and it seemed like all the restaurants were packed every night. They're not cheap. How are people able to eat out so much in EU on these salaries?
Maybe there's just a ton of people and not a lot of restaurants and people like to eat out occasionally.
The immediate conclusion doesn't have to be that the Italians have a bunch of money that they are being frivolous with. There are other options.
Not saying you're wrong.
I've just read that Europeans make objectively WAYYYY less than American's in tech jobs to a staggering depressing amount for the same amount of work...
So just rustles my jimmies to see unscientific hearsay rumours about them to make their situation worse.
Of course, were the other patrons tourists?
They are.
Pizza Margarita in Naples cost 4 Euro when I was there in 2019.