I am from Venice and I have traveled quite a lot and I think Milanese people are a special breed of humans: they are amazing.
Milan is Italy’s business pivotal center so you will find a huge community of Italians coming from every region (North, Center and South): so much so that real 100% Milanese people are actually not that common!
It is difficult to generalize, but Milanese people tend to be:
a. Very focused on their job and career prospects.
b. They all want to make good money (i.e. better money compared to their peers, at least).
c. They “never” stay in Milan over the weekends as they always take the car and go either to the beaches in Liguria (during Summer-time) or to the Alps (during Winter-time). Milan (particularly the city center and during summertime) is beautiful over the weekends as it is basically empty, I’m not kidding. Continue reading “Are people in Milan nice?”