Went to Italy in 09. Fucking loved it, but even back then, the immigrants were everywhere, especially in Florence and Rome. In Florence, my wife and I cut down an alley off of the main square by the duomo and two Muslim looking men followed us and were were fast walking, really trying to catch up to us. When I realized that we were about to be robbed and there was no one around, I told my wife to start running and she thought I was insane until they also broke into a run. We made it out into public again and they were just staring us down. The next day, we were at a market and a Muslim shopkeeper was trying to rip us off on what was obviously a fake leather jacket. When we called him on it, and backed out of the sale, they got very angry and aggressive and suddenly, we were getting surrounded. When you have a beautiful country that starts getting overrun with immigrants from the third world, it doesn’t take long for the dynamics to quickly change and these places become unsafe.
Last month, my wife springs it on me for our 20th wedding anniversary, instead of going to the beach and our second vacation, usually ti Tennessee, she wants to go back ti Italy, and as much as I want to go, I am afraid that it might not be a safe trip with the kids.