[grokys]

I went to visit a friend's parents a few years ago in Calabria. They don't have running water after 8pm, houses have home-made water tanks that they fill during the day that they use to supply water after that time. Bear in mind that this wasn't the countryside, it was in a reasonably sized city.

Walking around the neighborhood I noticed that there were no wifi networks at all.

The roads hadn't been resurfaced since the 1970s according to the locals and I totally believe them.

There's a reason Italians call it Calafrica. It definitely doesn't feel like western Europe.