# Have Summer Vacation Villas In Tuscany Become Passe?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 4, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-summer-vacation-villas-in-tuscany-become-passe/614749 "2012-03-04T21:13:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-summer-vacation-villas-in-tuscany-become-passe/614749/1 "2012-03-04T21:13:33Z")

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I remember the Seinfeld episode, where “the Maestro” is discouraging Jerry from renting a vacation villa in Tuscany.  
In the mid-1990’s such a vacation was fashionable (among the NYC elite).  
Has this run its course? Is Tuscany out of fashion?Can ordinary folk contemplate sch a vacation now?

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**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-summer-vacation-villas-in-tuscany-become-passe/614749/2 "2012-03-04T21:26:40Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> I remember the Seinfeld episode, where “the Maestro” is discouraging Jerry from renting a vacation villa in Tuscany.  
> In the mid-1990’s such a vacation was fashionable (among the NYC elite).  
> Has this run its course? Is Tuscany out of fashion?Can ordinary folk contemplate sch a vacation now?

I think Tuscany got overrun by the NYC (and London) elite.

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**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-summer-vacation-villas-in-tuscany-become-passe/614749/3 "2012-03-04T22:05:11Z")

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When I get home I can try to find the cite, but I was reading a criticism of _Vogue_\*\* and Anna Wintour (this may have been in her Wikipedia entry actually) which stated that they seemed to have a strange obsession with the “Villa in Tuscany” story. So I guess in the fashion world it’s been overdone.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-summer-vacation-villas-in-tuscany-become-passe/614749/4 "2012-03-05T17:05:33Z")

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Within the past two years, two friends of mine have gone and rented villas in Tuscany (lucky bastards). One was working on a film, the other just taking a long vacation.  
Both loved it, and both said they would do it again in a heartbeat.  
So - based solely off their comments, my guess is that it is not passe - but perhaps not the hot, new insider tip.

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**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-summer-vacation-villas-in-tuscany-become-passe/614749/5 "2012-03-07T05:30:12Z")

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If Tuscany is wrong I don’t wanna be right.