Vivo qui come espatriato da quasi un decennio ormai, e continuo a sentire le stesse stronzate di argomenti, ancora e ancora. A un certo punto, devi realizzare che la situazione è così brutta che non puoi più semplicemente dare la colpa a qualsiasi partito per cui non voti. Quindi, diamo un’occhiata ai fatti, a dove siamo attualmente:
Assistenza sanitaria – Classifica GHS Index: 77° posto. Siamo superati da paesi come Paraguay, El Salvador, Mongolia, Albania, Bielorussia, Vietnam, India e molti altri.
Scuole:L’Università di Malta si colloca tra il 750° e il 1150° posto a livello mondiale, a seconda delle statistiche che si prendono in considerazione.
Polizia Stradale: Intendo…
Trasporto pubblico: Non avere autobus extra nelle ore di punta è pura stupidità. Il problema non è la troppa gente. Il problema è un sistema terribile. Di gran lunga il peggior sistema di trasporto pubblico che abbia mai incontrato in qualsiasi paese. L’unica parte di trasporto pubblico che funziona bene a Malta è il traghetto di Gozo (Cirkewwa-Gozo).
Elettricità: Voglio dire, che cazzo. Promesse, promesse e ancora promesse, mentre la situazione peggiora. È uno scherzo. Questo mentre Enemalta e i politici continuano a darsi pacche sulla spalla per il "investimenti" che sono stati apportati per migliorarlo.
Inquinamento A – aria: Continui a far esplodere fuochi d’artificio 300 giorni all’anno. Non hai notato che l’aria è abbastanza inquinata? Non hai notato l’aumento delle allergie? Non sei stufo di non riuscire a respirare correttamente? Quando è abbastanza, abbastanza? Quando lascerai che questa stupida tradizione muoia all’inferno, dove appartiene?
Inquinamento B – rumore: Ho l’acufene dopo aver vissuto qui per più di 9 anni. Continuate a suonare il clacson a tutto e tenete attivi quegli esercizi 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7. Continuate a urlare l’uno contro l’altro mentre vi trovate a 1 metro di distanza dalla persona con cui state parlando. Saremo tutti sordi per tutta la pensione.
Non importa se vince il Partito A o il Partito B. Ci troveremo comunque ad affrontare gli stessi problemi. Ogni partito prima di ogni elezione sputa fuori una pletora di promesse (leggi: bugie) che non vengono mai mantenute – o risolte. E la ragione dietro i problemi è sempre ciò che ha fatto l’altro partito.
Prima di ottenere un "vai bekk" commento, voglio aggiungere questo: Questo post è stato scritto con frustrazione da qualcuno che ama questo paese in generale. Voglio vederlo prosperare. Voglio vederlo andare avanti verso tempi migliori. Voglio vedere Malta essere ciò che dovrebbe essere – e merita – il fottuto meglio.
Ma non potremo arrivarci finché continuerete a prendervi a vicenda di santa ragione senza assumervi la responsabilità delle vostre azioni o di quelle dei vostri gruppi.
di AgentCapital8101
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Don’t be negativv. We have the sea and the sun…thinking about it…we have the sun.
Unfortunately, there is nothing I disagree with this post.
It makes me sad, because I also love this country.
You really went through the hassle to write all this just to complain about your country?
It’s tge same shit I keep reading every day in this sub, but often narrowed down to 2 sentences
Jeez dude u really did that did you
imagine blaming 60 or so days of fireworks for the pollution instead of excessive cars, constant air traffic and huge cruiseliners.
Don’t get me wrong I am not fond of fireworks but it’s part of the culture.
Healthcare is Malta is better than what I experienced in all other EU countries. I don’t know what that index is or means, but that was not my experience.
You forgot:
Corruption: Malta is #55 on the Corruption Index (lower ranking = more corruption). That’s below: Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Qatar and Botswana.
Trees: Malta is ranked #213 (out of 215 countries) on the Forest Index, yet in deciding to build a new green park or a new road, or something concrete, the road/concrete always wins.
Organic foods: almost none of the crops produced in Malta are organic, with only 0.6 per cent of Malta’s fields designated as organic crop areas – this is the lowest in the EU.
Let people keep bashing their heads and pretending like this is “being negative” when all you’re doing is pointing out the obvious facts.
It’s all a bubble and at some point it will burst, very much to the detriment of our people (I don’t mean just the Maltese; I mean anyone living here that gives a fuck).
People are VERY quick to blame the foreigners, particularly third-country nationals because it’s easy to blame them, but why do we not blame the companies and other entities that think “oh we need some cheap labour for a crap job no one wants to do; hire some Nepalese or Filipino and pay them minimum wage or less”, or restaurateurs going “oh no Maltese person wants to be paid minimum wage to work weekends and public holidays serving the ungrateful public while on their feet all day, no one wants to work any more” and use it as an excuse to keep hiring some poor abused and desperate foreigners.
As you have pointed out we have ruined our air quality, our environment, there’s far too much noise, our education is subpar, infrastructure is dogshit even though we keep taking tons of EU funds, our healthcare cannot keep up with demand at all, public transport while free is completely unreliable, so on and so forth. Not to mention we have so many mentally ill people who want Joseph fucking Muscat back in power, literally labelled one of, if not the most corrupt men in the world.
Until there is a massive shift in our way of thinking, which is HIGHLY unlikely, we’ll keep going down this path until this place is borderline unliveable and just ends up as some Netflix documentary.
Which part of the island you live in? That makes some difference.
Malta went to shit a long time ago. There’s no hope. Myself and a lot of other youngsters will seek to emigrate away from this place. Plenty of other Mediterranean places with real identity.
Maltese are only interested about MONEY, nothing else. That’s why nothing will change
Thanks to the OP. One of the most useful pieces of information I’ve read here.
The only way to improve public transport is to RESTRICT cars. Can you imagine any politician running on a platform where people couldn’t have more cars than people in their household. In some countries, there’s a cost to owning a car in the order of thousands of dollars -imagine doing that. It would kill Bolt overnight. But without it, there’s no way to improve public transport.
The rest? Fireworks? Big deal compared to cars. Electricity? That’s a non-trivial issue.
Schools? The University of Malta might not rate highly …that seems bad but it’s indicative of a small region. My alma mater is currently 206th in the world. My postgrad alma mater is 498th. It’s really not a big deal.
I’m very curious about the healthcare ranking. Where’d you get that stat? I think there’s context missing.
Housing!
To solve the oversupply someone in the government came up with the genius plan to invite TNCs for low wage jobs so apartments can be filled to the rim and prices kept high.
But this can be of course filed under corruption.
Edit, before I get an upvote:
Don’t forget about the spitting!
You complain and still live here…
It won’t matter if Party A or Party B wins. We will still be facing the same issues. Every party before every election spits out a plethora of promises (read: lies) that are never lived up to – or fixed. And the reason behind the problems is always what the other party has done.
Exactly this. The tribal mentality and the “as long as i get my way” will never go away irrelevant of which ever party is in power
Pollution C
Streets are full of trash, rats and cockroaches infesting houses everywhere because they find plenty of food all over the urban area. The lack of a real garbage collection system is unreal.
Fireworks barely have any real impact on Malta’s air quality, as several academic studies show. The biggest problem with Malta’s air pollution (by far) is dust which blows in from the Sahara and there’s pretty much nothing any of us can do about it. The second biggest problem are cars, not fireworks.
The University’s ranking is pretty good across almost all departments. It’s consistently ranks in the top 10% of universities worldwide. Which is great for a tiny university on a tiny island.
Some other facts:
WHO ranks Malta’s healthcare system as the 19th best in the world. Pretty good, I’d say.
We consistently have among the lowest unemployment rates in the EU.
We have the greatest economic growth, by some distance, in the EU. And we’ve kept this up for years.
Studies show that trust in the police is at an all-time high and rising.
That’s not to say everything is great and we don’t have problems (some of which you’ve listed). Our infrastructure is poor, traffic is a nightmare that nobody wants to solve, we’re plagued by corruption and poor governance, people are losing faith in institutions etc. But let’s keep things in perspective.
And in anticipation of possible hate speech and accusations that foreigners must go back their kantrij, we also top the the list of [people most affected by hate speech](https://timesofmalta.com/article/maltese-affected-hate-speech-europe-study.1095075)
Is there some statistic showing the abysmal lack of trees. For a place with so much sun I never understood why we don’t invest in trees to provide some shade.
My wife and I are on vacation rn. Experiencing electricity outages. We heard it is happening all the time.
We were really surprised not to see a single solar panel or wind power, whilst Malta is having 300+ sunny days per year. Also the small island would be perfect for low cost electric cars, since the longest distance you can drive is like 30km.
So wtf? it would be so easy to power Malta in a sustainable, reliable, cheap way.
I am a patriotic Maltese Youth and I want to leave Malta ASAP. The only thing keeping me here is family.
The most frustrating is public transport imo, heavy dependance on private cars touches on many of the issues mentioned.
The routes barely changes from the introduction.
I don’t like festas or fireworks, but to blame air pollution on fireworks and then saying that the massive influx of foreigners is not a problem baffles me.
Malta is facing the same problems many european countries are experiencing, and are amplified due to our size and culture. Globalization and freedom of movement are the root of all problems; unaffordable housing, pollution and cultural clashes. How can a young person afford a place to live when you are competing with 6-8 people living in the same apartment, or on the other end of the spectrum, someone who can afford a 2 million penthouse? How can you blame pollution on individuals using their cars to go earn their daily bread when you have hundreds of flights coming and going each day, or having to import more food and supplies to cater for the increasing population? How can our outdated infrastructure cope?
And please, don’t say that foreigners do not use cars. Our roads are filled with taxis and rental cars. Do we have a problem with private cars or did the locals shift to taxis or rental cars? These statements contradict each other…
I am not saying that tourism or foreign citizens are bad, but things have gotten out of control, and again, it’s not just Malta. Just because something isn’t inherently bad, it doesn’t mean that too much of it is not bad.
That being said, I do agree that most of the issues mentioned should be top priority, but don’t hold your breath that any politician will be able to solve them. I do not agree with people abandoning ship though, as the grass is always greener on the other side. People need to start fighting (figuratively) for what is theirs.
Yes, all true. What’s your proposed solution? Because try as we might, we haven’t been able to elect a third party, especially a green party into government, and frankly, never will
Why do you call yourself an “expat” though? Aren’t you an immigrant?
Yet my gen x parents will keep spouting “oh nowhere is as comfortable and safe as here!” Heh
Instead of complaining all the time, try to do something for a change… flash news. everybody in malta knows how all of it is fucked
You have nailed most of the reasons why I left and never looked back.
the police part make me laugh so hard as a tax payer.
Let’s start up the beginning of the end of Maltese corruption
I get it fireworks are polluting but I don’t think they’re to blame when we have all these cars and an over active construction industry….I’ll gladly get away without the latter than fireworks and I don’t even love feasts.
Noise pollution, hell, the noisest aress are those which are heavy in car traffic. If you think people honk now, you should have been here in the 90s. People talking loudly is just being Mediterranean, People speaking isn’t the reason you have tinnitus, I can assure you that, so stop being a drama queen.
For the rest, I think you’re pretty spot on.
Thanks for sharing your facts. Very researched too.
Is fireworks really let off 300 days a year? That’s an exaggeration and out of proportion. But I wholeheartedly agree with all the other points mentioned. The Maltese badly need to change their mediocre mentality or else we’re stuck in a vicious circle.
Buzobba b’li kellu idobba
You were too generous in my opinion. As the journalist said before her murder .. the situation is desperate. The failure as a country and as a society is total. Most people will never understand just how bad it truly is.
And you are right .. it’s not the parties .. what malta needs is to be stripped of its status as a nation and put in its place.