Italian here. Our right wing government who blinks an eye to all small entrepreneur in Italy (there are A TON here) recently increased the max cash payment from 2k to 5k. This is definitely a way to say “please be free to recycle a bit more oney” and to gain votes in exchange.
It’s incredible how Germany, Austria, or Switzerland to name a few have this crazy high cash payment.
In fact our “ndrangheta” for example (Mafia from Calabria) expanded a lot in Germany due to this.
In Italy we have a weird culture of “porta blindata” as main house door.
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Basically evry house has it. I’m not saying is super secure but at least you would need some lockpicking skills to open it, it’s not something you can knock down with 1 shot like you see in the movies