abandoned luxury hotels and hippy communities: what' s going on in Sardinia
- panemet
- 13 nov 2014
- Tempo di lettura: 2 min
If you were a man or woman coming from Sardinia what could you complain for?
You' d have the best way of life near at hand: sunny weather, cheap and healthy lifestyle, fine-sandy beaches.
But what would be your mood if you lived in permanent unemployment, begging for your tax money to come back home after umpteen political scandals?
It is often weird to see that Sardinia hosts the most depressed areas in Europe (according to the Italian Senate report provided on May 2014, the province of Carbonia-Iglesias reached an unemployment rate of 48% this year), while its inhabitants are used to own up to three smartphones.
It's hard to admit that despite broad unemployment rates and poor production of goods and services Sardinians persevere in a high standard of living.
With its ancestral roots and ruins witnessing a proud biography, Sardinia was discovered only recently by the rich and famous who punctually became occupants of the brightest side of the island.
Glamour turned out to be the only possible way of living. Working three months a year and affording a second property for renting out, your house valuation tripled in few months and Peter Gabriel having breakfast round the corner: all beautiful things.
But, as usual, the love story came to an end. Elite tourism moved to even more elitist places while Sardinian economy had to raise prices for vacations and transports.
It's the same old story: tourism can improve local economy till the point of no return represented by its sustainability index.
Too close to the caviar coast to be ignored, a small hippy community occupies the quiet Valle della Luna (Moon Valley) since 1960: the date in which Costa Smeralda was launched. A group of people that made the choice to get away from the stereotype of frantic pace of modern life.
But a Valley which attracts hundreds of visitors a year often cannot preserve its allure.
They call them “poseurs”, due to the many intrusions such tiny landslide had to face through the years. Carl Gustav Jung would agree, it's difficult to interact and accept others' behavior, above all when they are strangers, or conventional, or bourgeois.
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