What’s it like to grow up in Venice?

I bet he's a good kisser

Does the city really smell like a sewer?

I just realized that never in my life have I thought about kids and teenagers living in Venice. I guess in my mind it's like Disneyland, not as an actual living breathing city with teenager. Odd, I know but never put two and two together.

r1 and I bet his cock is nice and uncut, ready to shoot fresh spunk. He's 18 so free game!

His female friend on the water bus is casually gorgeous.

Their lifestyle sounds so realizing.

What's sad is the lack of green spaces. A true concrete jungle.

Yes, r2.

R5, mostly true, but Venice has a surprising number of gardens and small parks.

I guess picking up the garbage every day is one solution for having nowhere to store it. Many NYC should try it.

[quote]What’s it like to grow up in Venice?

Moist.

All of those teens at his school are attractive, and none are overweight.

Why is that?

Wasn’t there a series a few years ago about kids in a U.S. Army (?) school across near Venice? I know we discussed it here. There was homosex IIRC.

Not that many people actually live in Venice these days, so it's interesting to see this.

R10, gee, I don't know. Probably something something something no black people and certain not something something something Venice tends to be inhabited by the upper and upper middle class.

Crazy to casually live in a home your family has owned for like 250 years.

[quote]Not that many people actually live in Venice these days, so it's interesting to see this.

The historical center of Venice has around 51,000 full time residents.

My God, did you see how gorgeous those kids are.

He's handsome, heathy and happy. His girlfriend is a beauty.

I would have been such a slut if I went to school or study abroad in Italy because my goodness those men were fine! But his dad's photo reminds me to get 'em while young because all those carbs will come back to haunt them.

Interesting - I guess you don't mind the crowds if that's all you know. Like kids in NYC.

They always talk about how young men live at home - 2/3 of men between 18-34 they say in the video.

But what about young women? Are they living alone or together? Is it just unmarried men who stay home?

I don't get it.

The USA:

"According to a new survey from Harris Poll for Bloomberg, roughly 45% of people ages 18 to 29 are living at home with their families — the highest figure since the 1940s."

"More than 60% of Gen-Zers and millennials reported moving back home in the past two years, according to the poll, often because of financial challenges."

That ain't the Venice, Illinois, I know.

Nosuh.

That was actually kind of fascinating. Thanks, OP!

Beautiful way to grow up, it would seem to me, but all that casual (and heavy) early smoking and drinking was sad to see and hear about.

Six time visitor to Venice and I have never experienced an odor resembling sewage. I think it is the most magnificent city I've ever been to, and is probably the only place outside the US/Canada that I would move to permanently if I could. I mean, look at the video at 1:55!

I love the bit about the rubbish that he takes out -- I once saw someone hanging their garbage out on a rope that the sanitation crews would untie and remove. I have no claims to Italian citizenship, but I would love to spend an afternoon playing cards and drinking (cigarettes optional).

What was that gadget all the boys were inserting their cigarettes into? Is that an Italian thing?

R2, no, not at all

R23 - I thought they were vapes, but I guess not.

I thought of cigarette holders - but who has those in 2024?

It's funny, cause watching it, you think, gee, this kid has such a healthy, charmed life, growing up in such a magical city. But then it ends with him and all his super hot friends sitting on an island, gambling, drinking Campari and chain-smoking cigarettes.

I bet they age very quickly in Venice.

R26, you don't say.

Yes, you, like a ghostly cricket, creaking where a house was burned:

"Dust and ashes, dead and done with, Venice spent what Venice earned."

"The soul, doubtless, is immortal—where a soul can be discerned."

[quote]I bet they age very quickly in Venice.

Veneto is the region of Italy with the second highest life expectancy: 83.1

Very interesting to see and hear about the life of an average 18-year-old young man living in one of the most visited spots on earth.

He's way more mature, confident, and interesting than his American counterparts.

R28, life expectancy and aging are actually two different things.

R29, talk to a well-born young person in Boston, New York, New Orleans or LA.

They might surprise you.

[quote]life expectancy and aging are actually two different things.

Go to Italy and look at the masses and compare them to Americans, especially the older people.

True, R31. The average American teenager does not have that ease of confidence, however.

If that young man is performing in that video, he may not exactly be the average Venetian teenager.

Those kids are growing up in a perfectly safe environment with a sweet slow pace, surrounded by astounding beauty. It will have an effect. Living in Tuscany for decades, I recognize that guy as an example of the average Italian teenager.

I just assumed everyone in Venice was a tourist

He'll come out when he moves away to university, until then its fly under the radar around the bros

[quote]What’s it like to grow up in Venice?

"Acqua, acqua, ovunque"

I stayed on the Lido a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. It’s an island across the Venetian Lagoon and has a casual, residential vibe. Fewer canals, very walkable and leafy. Fun story: we had to leave at 330 AM to take a water taxi to the airport. It was 45 minutes of boating through pitch black Venice.

Like growing up in Disney Land.

R33 bloody hell. What do you know about the "average American teenage" except in your sexual fantasies you ancient limey queen?😄

Nick and his friends are hot.

Another young hottie talks about growing up in Venice.

Um, that's the same hottie. Or the link is bad.

Lido is Dullsville, except at festival time.

Best neighborhood to stay—where he lives: Dorsodoro.

His mother is American, lucky woman.