I have to say that from an Italian point of view THE university city is Bologna. Milan still has many universities, Rome has many too (I can count at least 4 and I'm sure that there are many that I can't remember now) but if you want to go to university in Italy the place to go is Bologna (population of about 400000, students are about ¼). Beside this, I quite agree that Milan is pretty much underrated and i like it a lot.
+silvia pin vero, ma LA città univeristaria di tradizione è e rimarra bologna! che poi ci siano altri atenei più piccoli come Pavia o Padova ottimamente radicati nel contesto cittadino è ovvio, così come città come milano con tantissimi atenei (se non sbaglio tra accademie e università MI ne conta undici: statale, bicocca, cattolica, san Raffa, iulm, NABA, brera, conserbatorio, bocconi, PoliMI, Istituto ambrosiano e istituto di Design) però non possono competere con il clima di Bolo!
I immediately thought the same thing.Alma Mater Studiorum👍Not only a matter of student population,but the oldest in the world and verified tradition of quality courses.
Tya I'm Italian and when I moved to Milan months ago I was really upset because I really thought that this city was grey, sad and posh. But from the very first day I came I completely changed my mind and now I love it for all the reasons you said in the video. I wish I could live here forever! P.S. the university city in Italy is Bologna, no one thinks to Florence as THE university city.
So true! Thank you so much for supporting such a beautiful city! I'm Italian from Como but spent many years in Milan and I always love to go there for all the reasons you just said.. I don't know why it got that bad reputation of being sad and grey.. Cheers
Standing ovation! I especially appreciated the fact that you didn't make one of those "10 things that I love and 10 things that I hate" :D just pure love! Cheers - a fellow Milanese
Hei great channel! I am from Milan and I am an expat to the UK.. and of course I miss my city a lot for most of the reasons you mention in your videos (but, as you say, Milano is well connected with airports). Ah, I would add another one, Milano is quite close to the mountains.. and I miss my Alps! eheh. I think it got this stigma of "grey city" because in the past decades (let's say after WW2) many many people came there to work from the south, and of course they were missing the seaside, the sun, the olives etc.. Just as much as I miss Milano now.. But we natives have a way to say in Milanese dialect "Canten tücc 'luntan de Napuli se mör', ma pö i vegnen chì a Milan." which in English I think it would translate "They all are singing 'Away from Napoli we die', but then they are coming to Milan"
Great Tia! Finally an intelligent person making intelligent remarks on "my" beloved Milano! What can I say: thank you for saying aloud what I've always thought about the city. Personally I'm not much of a fascionista but I'm glad that Milan is so well known about and surely is the most cosmopolitan city in Italy. P.s. don't tell a roman!
+Carlo Defilippi ahah right! I mean of course there are so many amazing cities with differences among all of them! I just wish people could appreciate milan a bit more! Thanks for watching :D
+Tia Taylor Well I live in Rome but I like Milan and, as you said, Milan is certainly more "european" (Turin and Trieste feel pretty european too). Furthermore, talking about events, Milan has "La Scala" and other theatres which usually stage better productions than the theatres here in Rome. Anyway I actually prefer WILD cities like Rome and Naples ahahaha! Talking about diversity, have you ever been to Naples? You'd be surprised... Naples is one of the most diverse cities in Italy.
I come from Rome and I love Milan. Just don't give me shit like Rome isn't organized. The underground and trams actually work perfectly and it is also cool to live in Rome.
I love Milan! There are sooo many things to do and I totally agree with you, it's really underrated. Foreign people use to go to cities like Rome, Florence and Venice, while this is a very interesting city. Finally someone who said want I wanted to hear! You made me proud of my city. You're amazing:)
Hi Tia, I agree with you, I've been in Milan during the Expo and i found it a very beautiful City, even if I been there for only few days i tried to visit the most like the Sforza Castle, the navigli, the Milan Catedral and i really liked it !! I Would like to watch more videos in whic you speak about your impressions about Italian cities :).And of course i'd like watch a Video on my full of problems but still beautiful Naples .
Just found this video now, and I'm so glad we share the same opinion! I lived in Milan for half a year in my exchange period and got the exactly same vibe from other people that said Milan was ugly. And I think that the majority of people that like Milan are the ones who live or lived there, because we got to experience all the things Milan has to give... It is an unique city, and I never knew I could love a place so much as I do !
You said you don't know why Milan got its bad reputation. I think one reason might be that it really changed during the last years. I moved to Milan as a child in 2000, and I've seen that change: everything has improved a little bit, we have now more green and pedestrian areas, some neighbourhood have been rebuilt (think of Gae Aulenti, Navigli, le Tre Torri being built right now, the subway). It's as if the city suddenly woke up. I think it's a great moment to live here. Also, I believe many Italians still think of Milan as an industrial city, which it was in the past, but now the factories are closed or work in a different way. I've been wondering about some of your same questions because, despite being Italian, I'm not originally from Milan and my boyfriend and many friends are not from Milan and I feel like I have to constantly stand up for the city... and I've observed two things: 1, people apparently simply DON'T know about Milan's museums, churches, monuments. They don't consider La Scala such a big thing, they don't know there are dozens of theatres proposing an amazing number of plays each season (it took my boyfriend's passion for the stage to make me discover that). Milan has Romans ruins and Medieval rests (well, just the Castle itself...) but somehow, since they're not as imposing as i Fori in Rome, they don't count. 2. many people think that Milanese are rude and that they are all right-winged because Berlusconi was originally from here. This is a bit political but it needs to be said that Milan had actually a role in many popular movements since the unification and before because it was traditionally a leftist city. Though it's true that nowadays you will find a lot of people voting for the extremist party or just "figli di papà" (meaning, the children of rich people who made money with industry or television), it's a recent thing. But many people in Italy simply do not consider that?... (Ps: Sorry for the rant; compliments and thank you for your insightful videos!)
hi Tia, i saw that you like skyscrapers and modern architecture, if you have time you can go to "city life" (take the M5 and get off at "tre torri" station), it's still in construction but i think you will like it
Thanks for your kind comments :-) From a real original milanese my family is Milano native from at least 1856 (we didn't go back more than that), all from the Viale Romagna/piazza Piola area. Bella li !! :-)
I quite agree with what you're saying because I love Milan , I love its organization and I love the fact that in the same city you can find very old monuments and the most recent and highest buildings, very technological. I also like the fact that you can easily find a job, especially in financial stuff. On the other side I don't like the shape of Milan. It looks so flat in residential areas and there are no panoramic places or something. It also looks so dirty in some places. But there is no city in Italy in which you can't find some dirty places so... moreover it is very polluted because of the smog and its position isn't the best in order to make the pollution go away (usually there is no wind).
I really like you and this was a great video ! i don't know why but you look really good in this video :) i don't know if it's just you or the make up but could you please make a tutorial on this simple make up look ?❤
I nearly expected to see you singing "Oh Mia Bela Madunina" at the end of the video.^^ Foreign food is good in Milan; you should eat sushi at Zero Contemporary Food, if you haven't yet. Really good japanese restaurant. Oh, there is also Obei Obei faire in Milan! In 7th November.
I agree with everything you said! The only thing is that I believe you can find more traditional Italian food in other parts of Italy. Sure, Milan is great when you want to find very diverse types of cuisine and food from all over the world, but there are other places in Italy that just don't compare with Milan. Also, I would say my favorite Italian city must be Rome. I mean, yeah, Milan is probably more organized, but Rome is "caput mundi" if you know what I mean xD I hope you'll get the chance to live in other Italian cities too so you can tell the difference! Vieni anche al sud appena ne hai l'occasione, eh! Saluti da Bari :P
Hi beautiful!! I am also an expat living in Milan (since April) and I am incredibly excited about hearing you were able to go to fashion week? This is news to me! I thought it was closed to the public and only open to designers/people with connections. What aspects of fashion week are open to the public that I could attend? Love your channel!!
Hi Tia! I've been really enjoying your channel. Congrats and thanks for the amazing things you share with us in such a joyful way :D What do you know about Torino? Is it a nice city to study in? I may be going there next semestre with Erasmus but I'm insecure about it. Thanks!
Hey! I saw that you did not get a reply so I can maybe help you :) Torino is smaller than Milan and there's less to do, but still it is an enjoyable and walkable city. It is also well-connected to Milan( it takes one hour to get from a city to the other). I visited it( I am from Milan) and I though that I wouldn't dislike living there for a while. It is lively and pretty. Go there for your erasmus, you won't regret it! Genoa( and so sea, beaches) is not the far either. Same for Aosta( beautiful mountains). Turin so it is perfectly located to take amazing trips!
Oh thank you so much!! I was getting more and more anxious so seeing your message feels awesome right now. Thank you very much, it was really nice from you to take time and answer :)
You're welcome :) I was an erasmus student as well last semester so I had to help you and give you my advice/opinion :) Hope your choice will be easier now :) Happy to have been helpful ;)
In Europe we recognise a few cities within the design and fashion world not only Milan but Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Vienna, Brussel and Barcelona too .
Well, about the same problems a modern city has. Suburbs are not like the city core. They can be dangerous. There are also people living in poor circumstances. The worst thing? Maybe the pollution. Greating from Milan ;)
I love Milan. And it's getting better and better. Over the last 5-7 years Milan has had a huge urban renewal: porta nuova, la darsena e i Navigli and so on. It's maybe fair to say that during the 90' and the early 00' Milan has suffered a little cause the end of the so called "Milano da bere'' after the 80' and for this reason the city became a bit "grey" if you want to say so. But those Days are long gone. Just today Il Sole 24, which is the most important economic newspaper in Italy, released the annual survey about the "quality of living" among all the italian cities. the survey puts Milan in 2ND! Whereas Rome has fallen 16th. Lots of people hates Milan just because they are forced to move here to find a job (south Italians mostly) and they "link" their mood and frustration to Milan. and that even though Milan is the most welcoming city in Italy where nobody cares where you come from and offers an opportunity to everybody. Plus like you said there's always something to do. sadly haters will always be around talking shit...
ciao Tia, hai perfettamente ragione. sono le stesse cose che amo anche io di milano. Io abito in provincia ma sono sempre li per l'università (faccio il politecnico) e si, apparte i mezzi pubblici che a una certa chiudono o comunque ne passano pochissimi sono sempre ben organizzati (scioperi a parte). Per quanto siano belle un po' tutte le città italiane io non vorrei vivere da nessun'altra parte se non a Milano (mi riferisco solo alle città italiane). Comunque una domanda: che università frequenti? a che anno sei?
Vai a Roma o a Firenze o Torino o Venezia e poi ne riparliamo! Milano ha dei lati positivi perché è molto efficiente e ci sono tante cose da fare, ma un turista che viene in Italia e va solo a Milano non ha idea di cosa sia l'Italia.
Ma lei ci vive, non è una turista. Da torinese (trapiantato a Genova) ho sempre 'snobbato' Milano, più per campanilismo che altro. Nelle vacanze di Natale ho trascorso qualche giorno a Milano e devo dire che mi è piaciuta, nonostante Torino sia più bella urbanisticamente. Certo, non è un museo a cielo aperto come Venezia, Firenze o Roma, però ci sono tante cose da vedere, è efficiente e le persone sono tendenzialmente molto aperte e disponibili. Te lo dice uno che maledice ogni giorno su questa Terra in cui si sveglia a Genova, la capitale della gente presa male.
Hey Tia! Could you do a video about you experience in Bocconi and how did you pass the entry test? It would be so helpful. Have a good evening Federica XX
+Federica Rioja sure! I kind of wanted to do one after I've finished the bachelors...only a year and a half to go .-. In terms of the Bocconi test, I didn't take it. International students are given the option to submit SAT or ACT scores if they don't have the resources to fly to Italy and take it :P
ahhhh!!! There you go again Tia making me even more obsessed with Italy than I already am! In the future if I have the opportunity to study aboard can you please be my friend ahhah xoxo
Hello Tia, you're so gorgeous. I love your hair. I just love your videos, I've learned so much about Italy that I am going to save up my money and travel to Milan. Thank you so much for sharing with us😆😆!!!
I love your videos! I'm studying abroad this summer with my university in Milan! Can't wait we will be studying in the University of Milan! Your italian expressions video helped a lot! I thought I would be ok since I know french but thats not the case at all! haha Also I want to make videos while in Milan but I dont know if I should take my studio lights as I don't want it to be broken. Also I'm worried about taking my tripod as it broke when I took it with me to fly overseas but it may have just been a bad one. But I hope day in July when you have time we can collaborate on a video one day! Much love~ ciao love! I really want to make vlogs when I go!
Tia I adore you :) i am so glad to see a person who loves so much my hometown... you are more milanese than some milanese themselves ... great job tia :) always tuned and hope one day we can go for a coffee and be friends or even do a youtube collaboration together :)
hey tia💕 fiera dell artigianato 😂 sono contenta che Milano ti piaccia così tanto ehhh si, il cibo è buono, D E V E essere buono, la cucina italiana non è famosa per niente!?😂 ahah ti adoro!💕
Actually you can google the area of cities you have listed, if you compare Milan to Paris, it seems that Milan is almost twice bigger. Anyaway, try too google the area of Rome, Tokyo and New York, that will open your mind for sure. My english sucks i know.
poi abbiamo Lambrate,Viale Padova,Viale Ungheria,Quarto,Boifava,la Comasina,la Barona,un attimo fuori ci sono Cologno Monzese,Pioltello,San Donato...tutti posti fantastici e divertenti che dovresti visitare
Milan is little because it's a very old city, like almost all the cities in Italy, Milan didn't have the chance to increase its size during its history because of all the nearest little cities that were born close to Milan, cities like Sesto San Giovanni are, at the end, parts of Milan but are different cities.
Than you haven't been to the Netherlands, we have rules for rules how to organise anything and everything and you can see and feel it on any street in the Kingdom ( can get boring in our modern parts ) !
Grazie , Grazie per questo video, che rappresenta la Migliore città italiana!!! magari un po più freddina di altre, sotto tanti aspetti, ma è il top!!!
Una cosa che amo di Milano, io che sono milanese?? GLI APERITIVI Of course! Sei stra tenera,ho visto altri tuoi video e parli italiano molto bene,io personalmente adoro il tuo accento americano,adoro gli americani in generale 😉
+Tia Taylor lol the big citys are all pretty good in italy but beside that i dont really like it i went there for a class trip to viareggio which is the worst city ever. pisa and firenze where good but besides that ... it was just like burning cash ... in the big cities you can do thinks but the class trip was like 50% bus driving 20% sleeping and the rest eating and visiting sights it was so boring why did we go to viareggio you cant do anything there everytime we came back there where literally NO stores opend. italy is good but besides the great city you cant do anything there so out of 100 italy is maybe a 40. i dont recommend italy to young people if you dont go to a bigger city. i only like itally cause they are very good at desining sportcars(lamborghini/ferrari/pagani) + shoes and clothes (most manufactures are in italy like moschino versace(i think so) giuseppe zanotti. and ofc the food but you dont have to go to italy to eat italian food so we can exclude that . maybe the most beautiful thing is the nature in the ligurian(?) alps but enough hate its still very beautiful just sayin that there are so many citys and countrys i would rather go to than italy
+SHRUIKAN The fact that you didn't find much to do in one place doesn't mean there's nothing to do all over the country. There's plenty of stuff to do even outside the bigger cities. Just have to travel by yourself, not with school. And you can't say you dislike a whole country only after seeing a single place, come on...
From my point of view, there's no "better" city or "best" city in italy. We have many ( and with that word i mean A LOT) of beatiful cities. I think that you should take some time to travel around the country and find out the differences among them all. I know, maybe it's time that you don't have, but there's no hurry. Take your time and try to dig deeper in our coulture , which is not the one you see in Milan...or at least that's just a part of it. Have you ever been in Bologna or Trento, just to name a few with a lot of history . And there are so many more i can't mention here. Our colture it's not all about fashion . It's more about craftmanship and dedication, like the one you would see from a worker in Murano, creating extremely fine glass works ,or from a man in Modena who can recognize the state of maturation of a Parmesan cheese just by tapping it with a small hammer and listening the sound it makes. Nightlife is great in many cities and are even more "man-size" than Milan. Milan it's a very important city, no one can deny it, it's always been and will be, but it's not the best...simply because there's no "best city" . Every place has it's pros and cons . So i have to say that i disagree ..even if it's just a poit of view. Anyway, keep up the good job you're doing with this channel. Watching at your channel has given me back the confidence in my country: a confidence i've lost long ago, especially in the people.
+Daniele Elaborati oh no! I'm sorry if you thought that I meant to say milan was the best city, I just think it's underrated! A lot of tourists especially think it's just duomo, galleria and fashion week but it's really so much more... I've been to venice, florence, bologna, rome and turin and I love each of those cities and find that they're all very different from one another. You're right, every city has it's pros and their cons but I never see too many videos praising Milan for what it has to offer so I just thought I'd put one out there. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you like my channel :)
Verissimo vivo fra Milano e Firenze e grazie a quest'ultima sono nato nell'arte e nella storia e tutti i keewend quando vado a Milano penso che sia veramente sottovalutata tra arte e storia ( non paragonabile a Firenze) come città offre tantissimo ma purtroppo non viene mai valorizzata
All right but...Milan is bigger than Paris! 182kmq (Milan) against 105kmq (Paris)...Paris has a very big metropolitan area (the second in europe) but milan is the third, there's no much difference between. but the "city" of milan is bigger than the "city" of Paris!
You know i actually checked that after And you're right! Weird! People were always telling me before the trip that paris was bigger and moving around did take longer for me... Guess milan metros are just better;)
+Tia Taylor People doesn't know things ahahah i'm from Milan and i know well Paris and i always knew this fact, naturally Paris doesn't end in the "city" but has many suburbs, but Milan also ;) i hope you don't have to remake the video now ahahah
Non sapevo che vivevi a Milano; io adoro quella città. Grazie per aver messo i sottotitoli, ma una cosa che ti consiglio è quella di non tradurre troppo letteralmente. :)
Grazie per la visione! se c'è qualche parte che non capisci credo ci sia un pulsante per consigliare delle correzioni. Non sono madrelingua italiana quindi non sarò mai al 100% corretta:)
Paris within its administrative limits is the same size as Milan. But in reality, Paris metro area is one of the largest in Europe. So, you are not wrong, Paris is huge and much bigger than Milan. It's just about administrative limits of Paris that make confusion.
Obviously Milan looks ''ancient'' to you cause you're comparing it to US cities which are all pretty new and with low to none historical background to them (talking bout thousands of years ago)...however (we) Italians get to ''compare'' Milan to other Italian cities and thats basically why we dont fancy it that much or as much as a foreigner would
thats not what I said dont get me wrong I've been living in Milan and I find it pretty cool (maybe even more than other cities) all Im stating is that theres a bunch of other Italian cities which may be considered a lot more interesting from a historical point of view
Milan is Italy as NY is New Jersey. I'm sure that Milan is the best city to live in, but it is also the less Italian city of all. If you want a taste of everything there is to love and hate about Italy you'll should be moving south... maybe just as a tourist for small medium periods. Anyway you are doing a great job with this channel... congrats!!!
it's not the best city to live in. overpriced as f***! i can never justify paying min. 1000 euro/month for a shitty apartment just because it's in Milan (not in the center = even shittier)...
BTW Milan got its boring reputation because the Milanese are stereotypically "colder" people than most Italians, but if you go anywhere in the northern part Italy people are like this..I live in Turin and I can confirm that :D
I love Italy in general, and you're right Milan is definitely a beautiful place. Great video :)
I have to say that from an Italian point of view THE university city is Bologna. Milan still has many universities, Rome has many too (I can count at least 4 and I'm sure that there are many that I can't remember now) but if you want to go to university in Italy the place to go is Bologna (population of about 400000, students are about ¼). Beside this, I quite agree that Milan is pretty much underrated and i like it a lot.
Hai dimenticato Padova!! È una grave mancanza visto che ha più facoltà sia di Milano che di Roma
+silvia pin vero, ma LA città univeristaria di tradizione è e rimarra bologna! che poi ci siano altri atenei più piccoli come Pavia o Padova ottimamente radicati nel contesto cittadino è ovvio, così come città come milano con tantissimi atenei (se non sbaglio tra accademie e università MI ne conta undici: statale, bicocca, cattolica, san Raffa, iulm, NABA, brera, conserbatorio, bocconi, PoliMI, Istituto ambrosiano e istituto di Design) però non possono competere con il clima di Bolo!
I immediately thought the same thing.Alma Mater Studiorum👍Not only a matter of student population,but the oldest in the world and verified tradition of quality courses.
Bologna has the oldest university in the world. It is a beautiful city. But Bolo is for artists. Milano is for economics.
Tya I'm Italian and when I moved to Milan months ago I was really upset because I really thought that this city was grey, sad and posh. But from the very first day I came I completely changed my mind and now I love it for all the reasons you said in the video. I wish I could live here forever!
P.S. the university city in Italy is Bologna, no one thinks to Florence as THE university city.
So true! Thank you so much for supporting such a beautiful city! I'm Italian from Como but spent many years in Milan and I always love to go there for all the reasons you just said.. I don't know why it got that bad reputation of being sad and grey.. Cheers
Standing ovation! I especially appreciated the fact that you didn't make one of those "10 things that I love and 10 things that I hate" :D just pure love! Cheers - a fellow Milanese
Hei great channel! I am from Milan and I am an expat to the UK.. and of course I miss my city a lot for most of the reasons you mention in your videos (but, as you say, Milano is well connected with airports). Ah, I would add another one, Milano is quite close to the mountains.. and I miss my Alps! eheh.
I think it got this stigma of "grey city" because in the past decades (let's say after WW2) many many people came there to work from the south, and of course they were missing the seaside, the sun, the olives etc.. Just as much as I miss Milano now.. But we natives have a way to say in Milanese dialect "Canten tücc 'luntan de Napuli se mör', ma pö i vegnen chì a Milan." which in English I think it would translate "They all are singing 'Away from Napoli we die', but then they are coming to Milan"
Great Tia! Finally an intelligent person making intelligent remarks on "my" beloved Milano! What can I say: thank you for saying aloud what I've always thought about the city. Personally I'm not much of a fascionista but I'm glad that Milan is so well known about and surely is the most cosmopolitan city in Italy. P.s. don't tell a roman!
+Carlo Defilippi ahah right! I mean of course there are so many amazing cities with differences among all of them! I just wish people could appreciate milan a bit more! Thanks for watching :D
+Tia Taylor Well I live in Rome but I like Milan and, as you said, Milan is certainly more "european" (Turin and Trieste feel pretty european too). Furthermore, talking about events, Milan has "La Scala" and other theatres which usually stage better productions than the theatres here in Rome. Anyway I actually prefer WILD cities like Rome and Naples ahahaha! Talking about diversity, have you ever been to Naples? You'd be surprised... Naples is one of the most diverse cities in Italy.
Carlo Defilippi
😄 Haha "dont tell a roman" is such a classic sentence! I like that!!
I come from Rome and I love Milan. Just don't give me shit like Rome isn't organized. The underground and trams actually work perfectly and it is also cool to live in Rome.
I love Milan! There are sooo many things to do and I totally agree with you, it's really underrated.
Foreign people use to go to cities like Rome, Florence and Venice, while this is a very interesting city. Finally someone who said want I wanted to hear! You made me proud of my city. You're amazing:)
Visit Turin also. It's another understimate big Italian city and it is AMAZING
+Giovanni Modica I've been:) Torino is beautiful
I'm happy to know it!
Now visit Bologna someday. It's my city
It really is😍😍😍
mi piace il fatto che utenti palesemente italiani conversino tra loro in inglese
hahahha già😂
vero xD
True 😂
Così magari capiscono terzi che non parlano italiano, la butto lì.
It's awesome to hear my track!!! Would love to visit Milan in the future! Keep up the good work.
Hi Tia, I agree with you, I've been in Milan during the Expo and i found it a very beautiful City, even if I been there for only few days i tried to visit the most like the Sforza Castle, the navigli, the Milan Catedral and i really liked it !! I Would like to watch more videos in whic you speak about your impressions about Italian cities :).And of course i'd like watch a Video on my full of problems but still beautiful Naples .
Just found this video now, and I'm so glad we share the same opinion! I lived in Milan for half a year in my exchange period and got the exactly same vibe from other people that said Milan was ugly. And I think that the majority of people that like Milan are the ones who live or lived there, because we got to experience all the things Milan has to give... It is an unique city, and I never knew I could love a place so much as I do !
grazie della pubblicità!! Nessuno che spenda mai una buona parola per la nostra povera e bistrattata Milano
Tia I think that you're right. I'm an Italian girl and I follow you since maybe January. You are such a BEAUTIFUL person inside too of course 💕
You said you don't know why Milan got its bad reputation. I think one reason might be that it really changed during the last years. I moved to Milan as a child in 2000, and I've seen that change: everything has improved a little bit, we have now more green and pedestrian areas, some neighbourhood have been rebuilt (think of Gae Aulenti, Navigli, le Tre Torri being built right now, the subway). It's as if the city suddenly woke up. I think it's a great moment to live here. Also, I believe many Italians still think of Milan as an industrial city, which it was in the past, but now the factories are closed or work in a different way.
I've been wondering about some of your same questions because, despite being Italian, I'm not originally from Milan and my boyfriend and many friends are not from Milan and I feel like I have to constantly stand up for the city... and I've observed two things:
1, people apparently simply DON'T know about Milan's museums, churches, monuments. They don't consider La Scala such a big thing, they don't know there are dozens of theatres proposing an amazing number of plays each season (it took my boyfriend's passion for the stage to make me discover that). Milan has Romans ruins and Medieval rests (well, just the Castle itself...) but somehow, since they're not as imposing as i Fori in Rome, they don't count.
2. many people think that Milanese are rude and that they are all right-winged because Berlusconi was originally from here. This is a bit political but it needs to be said that Milan had actually a role in many popular movements since the unification and before because it was traditionally a leftist city. Though it's true that nowadays you will find a lot of people voting for the extremist party or just "figli di papà" (meaning, the children of rich people who made money with industry or television), it's a recent thing. But many people in Italy simply do not consider that?...
(Ps: Sorry for the rant; compliments and thank you for your insightful videos!)
hi Tia, i saw that you like skyscrapers and modern architecture, if you have time you can go to "city life" (take the M5 and get off at "tre torri" station), it's still in construction but i think you will like it
You're really making me miss my country!
Continua così Tia, spero che il tuo canale continuerà a crescere!
I'm from Essen, Germany.:)Did you visit the city?
+TheUrbanEve yea! I loved it!!
Ciao Tia! Vivo a Milano e ho davvero apprezzato ciò che hai detto! Your videos are really well made, love them!:)
Thanks for your kind comments :-) From a real original milanese my family is Milano native from at least 1856 (we didn't go back more than that), all from the Viale Romagna/piazza Piola area. Bella li !! :-)
Hi Tia :) Amazing videos :) I am currently planning to move from Malta to Italy to study there so I find your videos very helpful :)
+Michela Cutajar yay!! good luck!
I quite agree with what you're saying because I love Milan , I love its organization and I love the fact that in the same city you can find very old monuments and the most recent and highest buildings, very technological. I also like the fact that you can easily find a job, especially in financial stuff. On the other side I don't like the shape of Milan. It looks so flat in residential areas and there are no panoramic places or something. It also looks so dirty in some places. But there is no city in Italy in which you can't find some dirty places so... moreover it is very polluted because of the smog and its position isn't the best in order to make the pollution go away (usually there is no wind).
I really like you and this was a great video ! i don't know why but you look really good in this video :) i don't know if it's just you or the make up but could you please make a tutorial on this simple make up look ?❤
+Vanessa Amaniampong ahah why thank you! Alright, I'll try to film a tutorial once I get some free time :)
I nearly expected to see you singing "Oh Mia Bela Madunina" at the end of the video.^^
Foreign food is good in Milan; you should eat sushi at Zero Contemporary Food, if you haven't yet. Really good japanese restaurant.
Oh, there is also Obei Obei faire in Milan! In 7th November.
obej obej is the 7th of december! :)
+lakinella My mistake. Obviously it's 7th December, Saint Ambrose's day.
I agree with everything you said! The only thing is that I believe you can find more traditional Italian food in other parts of Italy. Sure, Milan is great when you want to find very diverse types of cuisine and food from all over the world, but there are other places in Italy that just don't compare with Milan.
Also, I would say my favorite Italian city must be Rome. I mean, yeah, Milan is probably more organized, but Rome is "caput mundi" if you know what I mean xD I hope you'll get the chance to live in other Italian cities too so you can tell the difference!
Vieni anche al sud appena ne hai l'occasione, eh! Saluti da Bari :P
Hi beautiful!! I am also an expat living in Milan (since April) and I am incredibly excited about hearing you were able to go to fashion week? This is news to me! I thought it was closed to the public and only open to designers/people with connections. What aspects of fashion week are open to the public that I could attend? Love your channel!!
Hi Tia! I've been really enjoying your channel. Congrats and thanks for the amazing things you share with us in such a joyful way :D
What do you know about Torino? Is it a nice city to study in? I may be going there next semestre with Erasmus but I'm insecure about it. Thanks!
Hey! I saw that you did not get a reply so I can maybe help you :) Torino is smaller than Milan and there's less to do, but still it is an enjoyable and walkable city. It is also well-connected to Milan( it takes one hour to get from a city to the other). I visited it( I am from Milan) and I though that I wouldn't dislike living there for a while. It is lively and pretty. Go there for your erasmus, you won't regret it! Genoa( and so sea, beaches) is not the far either. Same for Aosta( beautiful mountains). Turin so it is perfectly located to take amazing trips!
Oh thank you so much!!
I was getting more and more anxious so seeing your message feels awesome right now.
Thank you very much, it was really nice from you to take time and answer :)
You're welcome :) I was an erasmus student as well last semester so I had to help you and give you my advice/opinion :) Hope your choice will be easier now :) Happy to have been helpful ;)
In Europe we recognise a few cities within the design and fashion world not only Milan but Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Vienna, Brussel and Barcelona too .
ciao tia! volevo chiederti cosa pensi della sicurezza a milano (polizia)
Paris is huge? I wonder what would you say about Rome, if you think that: Super-huge, Maxi-huge... ?
+Skerdy Paris is way bigger than Rome
+Gianluca B
Bullshit.
Roma 2,627 millions
Paris 2,224 millions
*****
So what?
Have you checked?
Davide A. Visconti Apparently yes and it wasn't the answer she thought she'd get...
Skerdy
Exactly.
I'm thinking to transfer my job in milan.. can you make a video about the bad things of milan?
Well, about the same problems a modern city has. Suburbs are not like the city core. They can be dangerous. There are also people living in poor circumstances. The worst thing? Maybe the pollution. Greating from Milan ;)
I love Milan. And it's getting better and better. Over the last 5-7 years Milan has had a huge urban renewal: porta nuova, la darsena e i Navigli and so on. It's maybe fair to say that during the 90' and the early 00' Milan has suffered a little cause the end of the so called "Milano da bere'' after the 80' and for this reason the city became a bit "grey" if you want to say so. But those Days are long gone. Just today Il Sole 24, which is the most important economic newspaper in Italy, released the annual survey about the "quality of living" among all the italian cities. the survey puts Milan in 2ND! Whereas Rome has fallen 16th. Lots of people hates Milan just because they are forced to move here to find a job (south Italians mostly) and they "link" their mood and frustration to Milan. and that even though Milan is the most welcoming city in Italy where nobody cares where you come from and offers an opportunity to everybody. Plus like you said there's always something to do. sadly haters will always be around talking shit...
Have you ever been in Genoa??
I live in Milan and I appreciated what you said. You speak italian very well and you are beautiful😍
If you like parks, you can see Trenno in Milan or Bosco in città!
ciao Tia, hai perfettamente ragione. sono le stesse cose che amo anche io di milano. Io abito in provincia ma sono sempre li per l'università (faccio il politecnico) e si, apparte i mezzi pubblici che a una certa chiudono o comunque ne passano pochissimi sono sempre ben organizzati (scioperi a parte). Per quanto siano belle un po' tutte le città italiane io non vorrei vivere da nessun'altra parte se non a Milano (mi riferisco solo alle città italiane). Comunque una domanda: che università frequenti? a che anno sei?
+koykuro sono d'accordo 100%! e io faccio la bocconi e sono nel secondo anno :D
i'm so excited!! haha
Vai a Roma o a Firenze o Torino o Venezia e poi ne riparliamo!
Milano ha dei lati positivi perché è molto efficiente e ci sono tante cose da fare, ma un turista che viene in Italia e va solo a Milano non ha idea di cosa sia l'Italia.
+el pibe de piombo abbastanza d'accordo dai,e te lo dico da estimatore di Milano
***** prendo atto del tuo sfogo amaro e vado a dormire,saluti
Ma lei ci vive, non è una turista. Da torinese (trapiantato a Genova) ho sempre 'snobbato' Milano, più per campanilismo che altro. Nelle vacanze di Natale ho trascorso qualche giorno a Milano e devo dire che mi è piaciuta, nonostante Torino sia più bella urbanisticamente. Certo, non è un museo a cielo aperto come Venezia, Firenze o Roma, però ci sono tante cose da vedere, è efficiente e le persone sono tendenzialmente molto aperte e disponibili. Te lo dice uno che maledice ogni giorno su questa Terra in cui si sveglia a Genova, la capitale della gente presa male.
Anche Bologna si impegna con gli edifici storici
+el pibe de piombo Sì è vero purtroppo
Your voice when you say "What are you talking about?!" is amazing haha
You must go to London! I lived there for 2 years, it’s Europe’s New York! Always something to do, very expensive but worth it!
I love your videos!!!!
+Hayley Babyxo thank you
Hey Tia! Could you do a video about you experience in Bocconi and how did you pass the entry test? It would be so helpful.
Have a good evening
Federica XX
+Federica Rioja sure! I kind of wanted to do one after I've finished the bachelors...only a year and a half to go .-. In terms of the Bocconi test, I didn't take it. International students are given the option to submit SAT or ACT scores if they don't have the resources to fly to Italy and take it :P
My favorite Italian city is Trieste!! so historical and beautiful city by the coast...
i love Milan too but i wonder how it compares to NYC
girrrrrllllll your eye makeup good lord its amazing
If you like parks, go to the Royal Park of Monza, it's the biggest closed park of Europe and it's simply outstanding!
thanks for your video, milano is really one a most beautifull city of italy but many people of other italian city don't like this true.
Do a meet up in Milan please❤️🙏
ahhhh!!! There you go again Tia making me even more obsessed with Italy than I already am! In the future if I have the opportunity to study aboard can you please be my friend ahhah xoxo
+kaylove1xoxo aha of course!
Hello Tia, you're so gorgeous. I love your hair. I just love your videos, I've learned so much about Italy that I am going to save up my money and travel to Milan. Thank you so much for sharing with us😆😆!!!
I love your videos! I'm studying abroad this summer with my university in Milan! Can't wait we will be studying in the University of Milan! Your italian expressions video helped a lot! I thought I would be ok since I know french but thats not the case at all! haha Also I want to make videos while in Milan but I dont know if I should take my studio lights as I don't want it to be broken. Also I'm worried about taking my tripod as it broke when I took it with me to fly overseas but it may have just been a bad one. But I hope day in July when you have time we can collaborate on a video one day! Much love~ ciao love! I really want to make vlogs when I go!
Love your videos !
Tia I adore you :) i am so glad to see a person who loves so much my hometown... you are more milanese than some milanese themselves ... great job tia :) always tuned and hope one day we can go for a coffee and be friends or even do a youtube collaboration together :)
Sei stata solo a Milano in Italia?
will you come to Rome sometime? :)
I absolutely agree
i love you as a youtuber because you talk in italian too i'm italian but i know and love english too
Totally random but... I like the way you did your eye/eyebrow makeup in this video better than how you do it in your recent videos.
hey tia💕 fiera dell artigianato 😂 sono contenta che Milano ti piaccia così tanto ehhh si, il cibo è buono, D E V E essere buono, la cucina italiana non è famosa per niente!?😂 ahah ti adoro!💕
Actually you can google the area of cities you have listed, if you compare Milan to Paris, it seems that Milan is almost twice bigger. Anyaway, try too google the area of Rome, Tokyo and New York, that will open your mind for sure. My english sucks i know.
poi abbiamo Lambrate,Viale Padova,Viale Ungheria,Quarto,Boifava,la Comasina,la Barona,un attimo fuori ci sono Cologno Monzese,Pioltello,San Donato...tutti posti fantastici e divertenti che dovresti visitare
AHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
tia, come to Torino and make a video on 10 reasons for love Torino :-)
(sorry for my english)
OMG I love this idea I think I am going to do 10 reason why I love London . :) Great Video
+KarlySmiles you should!! Thanks for watching girl!
Milan is little because it's a very old city, like almost all the cities in Italy, Milan didn't have the chance to increase its size during its history because of all the nearest little cities that were born close to Milan, cities like Sesto San Giovanni are, at the end, parts of Milan but are different cities.
Ciao cara, adoro i tuoi video!! Sei anche bellissima. Baci buona serata.
+Emy a aha grazie
Than you haven't been to the Netherlands, we have rules for rules how to organise anything and everything and you can see and feel it on any street in the Kingdom ( can get boring in our modern parts ) !
Tia you're very beautiful! What do you do for your white teeth?
Her make up is always on fleek
i love ur videos. i'm living in Milan
I'm a Roman, but I always wanted to move to Milan, I love that city *-*
ma perche uno vorrebbe andare a dusseldorf o colonia? lol
Grazie , Grazie per questo video, che rappresenta la Migliore città italiana!!! magari un po più freddina di altre, sotto tanti aspetti, ma è il top!!!
You should visit Munich!
Where have you been in Italy? I mean which cities have you visited? :)
e' bello vedere come ti piace la nostra città!
Una cosa che amo di Milano, io che sono milanese?? GLI APERITIVI Of course!
Sei stra tenera,ho visto altri tuoi video e parli italiano molto bene,io personalmente adoro il tuo accento americano,adoro gli americani in generale 😉
Are u still with enrico?
+donald del lol yup
+Tia Taylor lol the big citys are all pretty good in italy but beside that i dont really like it i went there for a class trip to viareggio which is the worst city ever. pisa and firenze where good but besides that ...
it was just like burning cash ... in the big cities you can do thinks but the class trip was like 50% bus driving 20% sleeping and the rest eating and visiting sights it was so boring why did we go to viareggio you cant do anything there everytime we came back there where literally NO stores opend. italy is good but besides the great city you cant do anything there so out of 100 italy is maybe a 40. i dont recommend italy to young people if you dont go to a bigger city. i only like itally cause they are very good at desining sportcars(lamborghini/ferrari/pagani) + shoes and clothes (most manufactures are in italy like moschino versace(i think so) giuseppe zanotti. and ofc the food but you dont have to go to italy to eat italian food so we can exclude that . maybe the most beautiful thing is the nature in the ligurian(?) alps but enough hate its still very beautiful just sayin that there are so many citys and countrys i would rather go to than italy
+SHRUIKAN Italy is full of beautiful places, you need a better guide, also for the real italian food.
+SHRUIKAN The fact that you didn't find much to do in one place doesn't mean there's nothing to do all over the country. There's plenty of stuff to do even outside the bigger cities. Just have to travel by yourself, not with school. And you can't say you dislike a whole country only after seeing a single place, come on...
From my point of view, there's no "better" city or "best" city in italy. We have many ( and with that word i mean A LOT) of beatiful cities. I think that you should take some time to travel around the country and find out the differences among them all. I know, maybe it's time that you don't have, but there's no hurry. Take your time and try to dig deeper in our coulture , which is not the one you see in Milan...or at least that's just a part of it. Have you ever been in Bologna or Trento, just to name a few with a lot of history . And there are so many more i can't mention here. Our colture it's not all about fashion . It's more about craftmanship and dedication, like the one you would see from a worker in Murano, creating extremely fine glass works ,or from a man in Modena who can recognize the state of maturation of a Parmesan cheese just by tapping it with a small hammer and listening the sound it makes. Nightlife is great in many cities and are even more "man-size" than Milan. Milan it's a very important city, no one can deny it, it's always been and will be, but it's not the best...simply because there's no "best city" . Every place has it's pros and cons . So i have to say that i disagree ..even if it's just a poit of view. Anyway, keep up the good job you're doing with this channel. Watching at your channel has given me back the confidence in my country: a confidence i've lost long ago, especially in the people.
+Daniele Elaborati oh no! I'm sorry if you thought that I meant to say milan was the best city, I just think it's underrated! A lot of tourists especially think it's just duomo, galleria and fashion week but it's really so much more... I've been to venice, florence, bologna, rome and turin and I love each of those cities and find that they're all very different from one another. You're right, every city has it's pros and their cons but I never see too many videos praising Milan for what it has to offer so I just thought I'd put one out there. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you like my channel :)
1:44 Square kilometres: Milan 181.8, Paris 105.4. So yes, Milan isn't very big, but Paris Is smaller, wrong example!
great video ,milan is the fashion capital of the world,no where comes close
Verissimo vivo fra Milano e Firenze e grazie a quest'ultima sono nato nell'arte e nella storia e tutti i keewend quando vado a Milano penso che sia veramente sottovalutata tra arte e storia ( non paragonabile a Firenze) come città offre tantissimo ma purtroppo non viene mai valorizzata
All right but...Milan is bigger than Paris! 182kmq (Milan) against 105kmq (Paris)...Paris has a very big metropolitan area (the second in europe) but milan is the third, there's no much difference between. but the "city" of milan is bigger than the "city" of Paris!
You know i actually checked that after And you're right! Weird! People were always telling me before the trip that paris was bigger and moving around did take longer for me... Guess milan metros are just better;)
+Tia Taylor People doesn't know things ahahah i'm from Milan and i know well Paris and i always knew this fact, naturally Paris doesn't end in the "city" but has many suburbs, but Milan also ;) i hope you don't have to remake the video now ahahah
Tommaso Lombardi
That's a good information to know :)
love you tia
+deepika podukone podukone aw, thanks
You need to see Rome!!
But yeah, Milan isn't bad (for me).
Milan si fanstastic! It's unique!
I hope one day you will visit Napoli... And have a real Neapolitan pizza and babà!
You are Right my dear ,I 'm in love with my Italy :) Hai ragione cara ,Amo la mia Italia! (New Sub)
Non sapevo che vivevi a Milano; io adoro quella città.
Grazie per aver messo i sottotitoli, ma una cosa che ti consiglio è quella di non tradurre troppo letteralmente. :)
Grazie per la visione! se c'è qualche parte che non capisci credo ci sia un pulsante per consigliare delle correzioni. Non sono madrelingua italiana quindi non sarò mai al 100% corretta:)
that lipstick is lit!!!!
I really appreciate what did you say about my city Tia :) In which area of Milan do you live? :D You are so beautiful!
Paris within its administrative limits is the same size as Milan. But in reality, Paris metro area is one of the largest in Europe. So, you are not wrong, Paris is huge and much bigger than Milan. It's just about administrative limits of Paris that make confusion.
Grazie per amare il nostro paese😘
Bologna is the university city! you should visit Bologna ;)
Obviously Milan looks ''ancient'' to you cause you're comparing it to US cities which are all pretty new and with low to none historical background to them (talking bout thousands of years ago)...however (we) Italians get to ''compare'' Milan to other Italian cities and thats basically why we dont fancy it that much or as much as a foreigner would
You think there are no roman structures in Milan? lol ok.
thats not what I said dont get me wrong I've been living in Milan and I find it pretty cool (maybe even more than other cities) all Im stating is that theres a bunch of other Italian cities which may be considered a lot more interesting from a historical point of view
Know I want to visit Milan !!
+mother abigail :D
Lucky u! I envy u ! Rashed from Dubai.
thank you
+Gordianization well you're welcome :)
brava!!!
Milan is Italy as NY is New Jersey. I'm sure that Milan is the best city to live in, but it is also the less Italian city of all. If you want a taste of everything there is to love and hate about Italy you'll should be moving south... maybe just as a tourist for small medium periods. Anyway you are doing a great job with this channel... congrats!!!
it's not the best city to live in. overpriced as f***! i can never justify paying min. 1000 euro/month for a shitty apartment just because it's in Milan (not in the center = even shittier)...
crazydanger Yes but you receive a higer salary too
BTW Milan got its boring reputation because the Milanese are stereotypically "colder" people than most Italians, but if you go anywhere in the northern part Italy people are like this..I live in Turin and I can confirm that :D