Virginia Tech’s Grant Basile Forgoes Final Year To Play In Italy
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Heard this weekend it is $700k/year and gets to play on their national team
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Quality of life, affordability, transportation, housing stock, food quality, access to leisure activities, healthcare, and the list goes on
I can’t even imagine comparing Blacksburg to Liguria. That’s like comparing a Ford GT to a pinto. Even looking at Genoa which is not a nice town
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I wonder what hardships you must have endured here.
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you realize living in a shopping mall where you have to work until you're ten years from death is a tad overrated.
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better. You don't get ripped off by the phone companies or get *****d and nickle-and-dimed by IT companies that have the government in their pocket. Unless you're getting some very complicated medical procedure, most common treatments are much cheaper overseas and you don't have to wait forever like in the US. America got sold down the river a long time ago. The places that are nice are getting so overcrowded because people from the crappier parts that are moving there that they are declining. Lockdowns, debt, needless tyrannical surveillance state, failed schools, crowded roads and crime. A lot of people that come here, do so to make money and then become passport bros, to go spend that money elsewhere. Some of this is simply that the dollar is still somewhat strong and the rest of world hasn't rebounded as much since 2008 and that makes our prices seem higher. America in 2023 seems like a slice of hell compared to the quality of life in 2003, 1993 or especially 1984. I spend a lot of time overseas and also speak to a lot of people that go abroad, or have one foot out the door and there is a lot of agreement on this view. America is a pretty bad deal in a lot of ways. If you work for a large corporation or bought real estate a long time ago before it appreciated then you might be in a decent position. A lot of people aren't in that cohort and can't really pay the bills.
Just in case this perspective catches you by surprise.
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Not all over the world, just the countries that have it way worse than us.
There are countries who have put out travel advisories that the U.S. is not a safe destination. We are not what we once thought we were.
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A city between Milan and Genoa. Under three hours to Monaco and four hours to France and Switzerland. This is a home run signing for Basille. Sounds like
he’s walking into a great opportunity as a pro player in Italy.
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Depends on your definition of better looking
To each his own.
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Some of the women have better facial hair than the men!!
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transfer portal to Italy
This hurts. Dude scored 30 opening night and per your article double digits in 29/34 games. Baller.
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