Lawyer Alberto Claretta Assandri at Porta Nuova train station in Turin on his morning commute to Milan.
Photographer: Giuliano Berti/BloombergMilan’s Wealth Boom and Soaring Rents Drive Executives Out to Turin
Italy’s rare big-city commute takes less time than Philadelphia-to-Manhattan or Birmingham-to-London
Most weekday mornings, Giorgio Ferrero cycles through Turin’s quiet, arcaded streets to the city’s main train station. Within the hour he’s in Milan, zipping through traffic on a scooter to his job as a lawyer at Prada Group.
The roughly 140-kilometer (87-mile) commute from Italy’s former industrial capital to the country’s booming financial hub is a daily routine for a growing cohort of young executives who, like Ferrero, live in Turin while holding down jobs in Milan.