Every time I visit the US, I am struck by the number of nail parlors open for business in my sons’ neighborhood. There are five times more nail salons on one side of one street on one block than in all of Busto Arsizio, the town where I live in Italy. Granted, my sons don’t live in a “typical” American community; they live in Hollywood, which is atypical by any measure. Although Busto has a…
