Traveling day to Florence

The taxes are at least 10 percent higher here but there are some benefits. The middle class class workers are well paid. Our bus driver has a late model Audi Q5. They do tax the rich higher than us. There is an extra month pay got most at Christmas. College is dirt cheap in fact supplement student housing, free healthcare with reasonable supplemental. There is an issue with the birth rate so in Germany they give each parent 2 years off.

Gas is 7 to 8 dollars per gallon 

Highways high tolls

Bathroom 1.00

Just went through a tollbooth next to a castleā€¦ nothing has changed.