Information About Living In Italy

Author: Jessica Santoli

Living in Italy has been a reality for me these onwards five living following a feast in Umbria (which is in the extinct centre of Italy - horizontally and vertically) and is known as the 'Green Heart of Italy'. We found the Umbrian people commonly open and the Mediterranean climate promised payback for our countless ailments.

Basing on our experiences (which may be eccentric to Umbria), the core differences between living in the UK and living in Italy are as follow:

Children - Italians are very generous with youngsters being allowable to live up postponed and adults estimated to overlook weariness tantrums. The model of adults predating on children is regularly alien to our rural village.

Pets - Many Italians deem the animals should either work or impart food or preferably both. There is a giant untamed cat population (why pay for spaying?) and dogs are mostly chained up or confined.

Food - Italian food and the Mediterranean diet can be bad hearsay. Pizzas and pasta are enclosed in greasy meat and cheese, the drinks are high-darling, salt (in leftover) is added to everything (excepting bread!) and alcohol is the preservative for cakes. Although the older Italians are remarkably healthful, many younger ones have high cholesterol that is exacerbated by near everybody smoking.

Prices - Generally advanced than the UK while if you have a backyard, it is much easier to grow your own fruit and vegetables here in Umbria. Pork and chicken from an Italian murder are generally of good property.

Work - The Italians have been inundated by East Europeans and North Africans present reduced labour. Jobs are not simple to find - even for the Umbrians themselves.

Driving - Not very as bad as the cartoons would have you judge though, if you venture south to Naples and Rome, it can be wool-raising. Although it is an offence to drive an itinerant handset while heavy, you won't see Italians paying notice to it.

Entertainment - Apart from the numerous festivals (every vegetable or dish has its own 'festa') - we are about to have the 'festival of the red potato' - entertainment is what you make it. Italians arrange at the many bars in the dusk to disagree about politics and football and to play cards.

Language - Everyone speaks Italian, the colonist personnel will converse their native tongue too but no-one speaks English excepting other ex-pats and the uppermost educated Italians.

Redtape - Italian redtape is world-prominent although it is not meant at foreigner since native Italians endure uniformly. Offices will redirect you to other offices that never open or which won't answer their telephone. You always basic 'one more form' and you are always 'deemed to know'. For example, if a statement doesn't enter, you are meant to have rewarded it anyhow and it is your criticize that the Post Office hasn't delivered it.

Lifestyle - All that said, it is an easier-vacant velocity of life here in chief Italy. If you want to get out of the Rat Race, feel wipe cool air on your face, know that the youths stood in front of you at midnight are just waiting at 'last orders pizzas' and will fancy you 'Good Evening' as you go older and that the graffiti on the hedge tells the tale of an ardor-lorn lad and not some diatribe of obscenities and loath, then this might just be for you. Well can we expect to see you living in Italy?

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