<story><title>What it&apos;s like to live in Monaco</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/what-its-like-to-live-in-monaco/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scirpaceus</author><text>Born and raised in Monaco here. The article paints a very incomplete picture, told from the minority standpoint of mostly wealthy socialites and residents. There are also about 50K people commuting into Monaco daily from neighboring cities (Nice, Cannes, La Turbie, Beausoleil, etc.) who are just middle-class wage workers, and who form the bulk of Monaco&amp;#x27;s active population. In the daytime, Monaco is mostly alive from their presence, as they outnumber residents. At night, well, Monaco isn&amp;#x27;t very much alive at all.&lt;p&gt;Many if not most of the wealthy residents who can afford the insane real estate prices also own multiple properties worldwide (London, NYC, Lugano, Singapore, etc.), and shuttle between them all year round, so they aren&amp;#x27;t even there permanently. Monaco is only a fiscal residence for many of them.&lt;p&gt;Beyond the surface-level glitz, e.g. the Formula 1 and the fancy cars parked in front of the Casino, what&amp;#x27;s interesting is that the little old unassuming lady in sweatpants walking her dog in the morning may actually be a multi-billionaire, and you wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to tell. Lot of old money that likes to keep to itself, as opposed to nouveaux riches who like to flaunt.</text></comment>
<story><title>What it&apos;s like to live in Monaco</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/what-its-like-to-live-in-monaco/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charles_f</author><text>&amp;gt; around 8,000 of the people who live in Monaco are Monegasque citizens&lt;p&gt;I have the luck of being friends with one of the precious few citizens of Monaco, who chose to leave in BC. There are fun trivia about citizenship in such a small city-nation, especially abroad. First of which is that the Monegasque consul to Canada is not Monegasque himself, and has very, very few citizens to tend to (by cheer luck it turns out I also know that person&amp;#x27;s son! ). When my friend needed to renew his passport, he just called the consul, who told him &amp;quot;oh, I need to figure out how to get you one&amp;quot;, which process was effectively more or less having my friend to drop an email to the person in Monaco who prints passports. Same thing when he got kids.&lt;p&gt;We went to the US together once, and had to get through immigration because as a Monegasque he can&amp;#x27;t get dual citizenship. The immigration agent kept us longer, asking all sorts of questions because that was the first time he saw a passport.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly his kids can have both citizenships, his wife could technically acquire it but it would be subject to remaining married with him and thus she would be allowed to keep her citizenship in case they would ever divorce.&lt;p&gt;He can get a French id card and a French passport and work in France without a visa, but can&amp;#x27;t vote in the French presidential elections.</text></comment>