Your experience is yours, not the whole experience. I' ve traveled a lot, and all big cities have some troubles. To say to not use the car if you want not to have it stolen is very very far from reality. When I don't take my motorbike, I take my car and never have any problem, unless I leave it open and with keys inserted in dashboard (in the past I' ve done it, and nothing happened).And that's EXACTLY what they told me when my company sent me to work there for a month (the company had offices in Milan, which is where I live, and in Rome, Naples, and other places I don't remember). I was excited about the new experience, I told myself everything was going to be fine despite all those bad rumors, and bad things may happen everywhere.
I talked to my Neapolin colleagues, and they were very friendly and open, just as every Neapolitan says about other Neapolitans. Then, before the departure, they told me what to say to the taxi driver to avoid being cheated, which parts of the city I had to avoid, and even which side of the road I had to walk on "or we'll never find you again! hahaha!" (what's so funny?). They also discouraged me from travelling with my car, unless I wanted it stolen. I'm pretty sure they weren't mocking me. That was the first alarming sign.
When I arrived, I was accomodated in a room of a coworker's house. We had no heating - the house was not connected to the methane supply network because the building was illegal. Actually almost every building on the same road was illegal. And he was an unregistered tenant.
In the office, almost everybody told me how nice it would have been to being transferred from Naples to Rome, or even better to Milan. I don't remember anybody from Milan, including Neapolitans, whishing of being transferred to Naples. I also found out that what they say about wages and unpaid stagists was not just a rumor.
Then, in my third week, while I was waiting for a bus for three hours (I learned that when there's an important soccer match, buses just don't work), I was robbed of my wallet.
I asked my boss if I actually had to get there for the fourth week - the job didn't actually required me to be there as I didn't have to talk with the clients, I could just as easily work from Milan and talk to my colleagues with Skype - but he discouraged me, because they were shrinking the offices in Milan. If I wanted to continue to work with the company, on the long term I had to move to Naples. I quit.
Fast forward a few years, and talking to some of my former colleagues I learned that the offices in Milan and Rome now have almost only business reps, and of those in Naples, very few were still with the company: they were let go after their contracts expired to be replaced by stagists or younger employees, or changed job to stay in Naples, or moved to another city or abroad if they wanted to stay in IT.
Hardly "one of the best of the world". Apple has partners in Italy, and they told Apple that Naples was the best choice so they have more programmers without having to pay them a course. Or their salaries, apparently.
I kind of expected such a reply from a Neapolitan
In all of the cities of the world I've taken Yellow cabs, I've been cheated: New York, London, Prague, Paris.... only to mention some of them.
Public transport is not always perfect .
You want to describe the city as something really different from reality. Free to do so, but Naples is a big city like many other.
Do you really think that people in this city lives in the way you describe ?? Come on!!!
are you kidding?
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