A young woman from Naples travels almost 20 hours a day. On the way to her place of work in Milan, the 29-year-old covers several hundred kilometers every day.
Naples – Hours of traffic jams during rush hour and overcrowded trains – thousands of commuters in Munich fight their way through rush hour traffic every day. For a young Italian woman, however, long journeys to work are not a problem: she travels almost 800 kilometers to work every day.
Pendulum madness: Italian travels 1600 kilometers a day
Giuseppina Giuliano (29) has to be at work at 10 a.m. But for the young Italian, her day begins at 3:30 a.m. – she still has almost 800 kilometers to go. The 29-year-old commutes from Naples to Milan and back every day. She has her daily routine from the Italian local newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno portrayed.
Giuliano currently lives in her parents’ house in Naples, from where the pendulum odyssey begins. The Italian takes the bus from the family home to the main train station. Shortly after 5 a.m. she changes to the high-speed train to Milan. Less than five hours later, the school administrator is in time for the start of work at the Boccioni art school on Piazzale Arduino.
Renting in Milan priceless – 20 hour commute
In the evening the journey starts all over again: Giuliano finishes work at 5 p.m., takes the train at 6.20 p.m. and is back home in Naples just before 11 p.m. Since September, the Italian has been spending more time on the train than at home. In Italy, the story made headlines.
The reason for the commuting madness: the rental prices in the Italian fashion metropolis are too high. A two-room apartment in Milan costs up to 1,800 euros a month, but Giuliano’s monthly salary is only 1,165 euros. The 29-year-old only pays 400 euros a month for the commute – and can thus save at least part of her salary.
Munich is according to data from the transport service provider Inrix continues to be “the most congested city in Germany”. The average commuter lost 74 hours there last year due to congested roads during rush hours.
“Commuting doesn’t bother me at all” – but it’s not a permanent solution
“I am determined to continue like this,” the Italian told the other side Il Giorno. “I have to say that my work doesn’t bother me at all, nor does traveling by train” – even though she says she has had a lung disease since she was a child.
For the Italian, staying with her parents in Naples was the right choice. “Everyone is free to choose how they want to live their life, and I’ve made my choice,” said Giuliano. However, the commuting madness is not a permanent solution: “Now I’m still young and can stand the tiredness, but over the years I don’t think so,” admits the 29-year-old.
Italian woman looking for an apartment: Call for landlords in Milan
To put an end to the daily commute, Giuliano appealed to landlords in Milan: “Perhaps among all the people who have heard my story, there is someone with a good heart who wants a room or a small apartment in near Milan and would like to rent it out to me.”
New figures show the daily commuter flows to and from Munich. One thing becomes clear: the Achilles heel of the whole thing is local public transport. (mlh)
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