Naples vs Sofia

~ Veselin

I spent a week in Naples for a team meetup with my team. I kept comparing the city with Sofia for reasons that may not be immediately obvious. At least not obvious to me. Don’t take this post seriously.

Here’s this spreadsheet with an honest and unbiased comparison between Sofia and Naples.

Sofia 🇧🇬Naples 🇮🇹
Volcanic activity🚫✅
Nearby mountain✅✅
Mountain tries to kill you🚫✅
Lots of pizza✅✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Lots of trash✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🍌 💩
Dog poop💩💩 💩 💩 🤦
Frequent dealers🚫✅
Sidewalks blocked✅,✅,
Pineapple pizza✅🚫
Roman ruins✅✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Has skyscrapers✅✅
Has skyscrapers everywhere✅ 🚫
Has a giant brutalist trash can🚫 in progress ⏳✅
Restaurant food prices💰 💰 💰
Restaurants offer salads✅ 🚫
4-course meals for tourists🚫✅
Food is usually great🚫✅
Yogurt is usually great✅ 🚫 🤦
Coca Cola Zero bottle size500 ml ✅450 ml 🤦
Number of cats🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
Crowds of tourists🚫✅
Drivers sometimes stop for you✅🚫
Taxi prices💰💰 💰 💰 💰
Taxis may attempt to scam you✅✅
Walkable🤦🤦

Naples for me was a place with a long history, old buildings, too much pizza, and lots of cars.

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13 thoughts on “Naples vs Sofia”

    1. My current understanding of the world is that we should all walk, ride bicycles or use electric scooters/scateboards. Cars don’t belong to the cities with the exception of people with mobility issues, public transport, and delivery.

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      2. Remove all cars from the cities and it will also help many other things:
        – Fewer victims of accidents
        – More space for everyone
        – Cities safer for children
        – More prosperous local shops, restaurants, SMBs
        – People will improve their average health and will move more

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      4. I think this is an area in which we should and will progress. I would love to see it in Lake Tahoe, where they claim to espouse clarity of the water over all else. There’s a huge tourist population and local workers are on the way out, displaced by millionaires who only use their properties for a few weeks a year. You could stop all vehicular traffic outside town with the exception of construction and maintenance vehicles and then move everyone around by way of bikes and electric buses. I think people would bitch a lot, but it would be safer for everyone, easier to evacuate in the case of a catastrophic fire (which will happen) and much better for the environment. The locals who are left would complain so much though-violation of their rights to be individual battering rams.

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