Modern Monte Carlo became the "kingdom of boredom"

Modern Monte Carlo became the "kingdom of boredom": the city is no longer the same that was before, writes the Italian weekly Panorama , the article of which is published by Inopressa .

Italians leave, restaurants close, parties become lethargic, and those who run from taxes prefer London or Bratislava. The most clashed principality in the world has lost money, chic and playlies, and over time, only Russians confused luxury class.

Monte Carlo changed, there are no more Russian princes who shot themselves in the temple, losing family jewelry. There are no more weapons of Saudi traders, which, after each dance, gave new jewelry from diamonds. Large businessmen disappeared, the old secular lions and famous entertainers died, playboy left.

Here is a typical picture. In the restaurant Le Train Bleu in the Monte Carlo casino, a lady sits with a bored look, shaking a red shoe, barely holding her at the fingertips. There are only three people in the gaming room. The Lebanese in a leather jacket is trying to attract attention, making large bets, but at other tables they miss the cereal. Three elderly dates practice poker game, and only one old Frenchman is visible behind American slot machines.

The poor-united millionaires who settled here to give a damn about taxes in their homeland. They have every chance to die of boredom. “They move on helicopters, drink champagne, train on treadmills, put diamonds the size of a potato for showing, but if you do not work, and your only activity is to take children from school on Porsche or Aston Martine, then the days and nights stretch for an endlessly long time,” writes Panorama. However, this is better than being poor and pay taxes.

Although the French newspapers continue to call his laundry dirty money, the principality of Monaco passed the law against laundering in order to be adopted to the Council of Europe. This was slightly scared by big scammers.

After the adoption of the law on the return of capital in Italy, a thousand out of six thousand Italians who were living in Monaco returned to their homeland. Around the same time, many celebrities, for example, Luciano Pavarotti, left Monaco.

There were businessmen who sit on the plane every day. In order not to pay taxes, they keep wives and children in Monte Carlo. But on the weekend they do not put on a tuxedo, but put on jeans and ... do not go swimming in the sea, because here the sea is dirty. Instead, they float on their yachts on their yachts, and spend real leave in Dubai or Miami.

“This is the place where people come, knowing that there are a lot of people here,” says the director of one of the discos, where you rarely meet the cream of society. “This is the place where people go because they think that the rich are also here. But if the rich are not visible, then how to be?”

The restaurant at the Hermitage Hotel with its massive chandeliers is almost always closed. The director opened another restaurant, smaller - he does not make such an oppressive impression, being half empty. The golf club restaurant is closed, the bar of the tennis club closes at seven o’clock in the evening. The Chez Maxim's restaurant has been closed and put up for sale for a year. The menu is pompous everywhere, the de Paris Caf menu is even published in the Monaco-Matin daily newspaper, but, in general, Monte Carlo is not fed very tasty and expensive and always something is wrong. For example, in the toilet of Hermitage hotels, taps with hot and cold water are confused, Panorama notes.

The only ones who still believe in the Dream of Monte Carlo are Russian luxury interdies coming here in search of the last wealthy simpletons. But will they find them? The football team is in debt, the tennis tournament was unprofitable, the police began to take fines and, despite the fact that the principality, according to their own statements, is the safest place in Europe, thefts began.

Many stores are put up for sale. Many apartments are free to rent. Renting a 1-2 room apartment is from 700 to 5000 euros per month.