Is italy a nice place to live?? PLEASE ANWSER!!!!?

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Paolo

You are italian but you can't speak italian... Strange :))
Italy is not a very English speaking country and aside from the fact that you don't speak Italian, you don't speak English very well... :)

Kristy

Ciao!
I lived in Florence, Italy for 4 months (for study abroad). I didn't know much Italian, but Florence is such a tourist city everyone there spoke English (helpful, but not quite the experience I was looking for). I traveled by myself to a small town about 2 hours outside Florence (Arezzo) where no one spoke English and I had to make do with my limited Italian. Everyone was really patient and helpful and willing to do the awkward sign language hand motions to help me when I needed it and had trouble communicating. That was a fantastic change from life in Florence, but also a little daunting. Like the other posters said, it depends on where, but there are some universal truths to life in Italy:
you probably won't have a clothes drier (not bad, just different, you know?)
Italy has laws regulating the temperature and number of hours you can have the heat on during the winter (again, not bad, just something I didn't expect when I got over there)
Public transportation is so much easier to use over there than here (unless you're from a city with a metro, maybe)
you can buy anything you want if you're willing to pay the price (they don't really use peanut butter over there, so to buy it costs like $8, and the same goes for a lot of other typically "American" products (like Oreos and other snacks)) except cheddar cheese (i don't think it exists over there)
Overall, it was an experience I wouldn't trade for the world, for the most part the people are really nice and helpful (my mom visited for a week and had a different experience, but that's b/c she was there for only a week and didn't get the chance to meet people), my favorite thing to do for fun over there was go out clubbing with friends and travel and explore Italy, and most young people speak at least some English, but there's less English in smaller towns.
Enjoy your visit!

Marco

Paolo, cagati in mano e prenditi a sberle, pezzente. Mi auguro ti scoppi una gomma in curva. Ma si puÃ² sapere che cazzo vuoi? Sarai tu che non parli bene italiano, a parte in fatto che il tuo inglese Ã¨ molto da robottino pirlino che ha studiato al liceino pagato da paparino e ha fatto la vacanzina a Londra con la mancia dei nonnini. Sei proprio fuori luogo, calunnia quella baldracca di tua sorella prima di giudicare chi nemmeno conosci.
Attieniti al contesto e rispondi alla domanda della ragazza invece di criticare, se no qualcuno prima o poi ti apre la testa e ti piscia dentro, escremento sociale.

Translate: Marco and Paolo aren't friends.
^_^
Marco

Chi_Nana_Shin_Zero

I'M ITALIAN I WAS BORN IN ITALY AND I'M LIVING IN ITALY NOW
ITALY IS A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE SO FRIENDLY IN ITALY WE DO SHOPPING AND WE GO TO DISCO ( I DON'T LIKE IS ) WE GO TO THE CINEMA WE DO THE THINGS THAT ARE THE CHILDREN OF OTHER COUNTRIES
IN SUMMER WE GO TO THE SEASIDE
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ITALIAN I CAN HELP YOU MY CONCTAT MSN IS misstommina@live.it ciao ti aspetto

Marco

Ciao,
my english is terrible but I want to try to answer to you.

Italy is not a nice place to live. Bad politics, bad services etc...
But in some little town or cities you can find a little heaven.
Italian people are too impredictable.
Learn Italian is very very easy because is very very easy to find someone that want to speak, and to speak is the best way to learn.
In the summer you find a lot of american. You can distinguish them for the shoes, the ties and the language.
You can have a really good time only if you know the right people that know the better amusement.

If you want to visit Pavia, the city where I study in my university I'll give you my room and I'll go to sleep on the sofa.

Ciao
Marco

valinalavelina

ciao italiana! I'm italian and I live in Italy.. There are very beautiful places, but the lifestyle is different in the different places.. I was born in a little town in the center of the country and it is wonderful to live there, not so expensive, no mafia, very friendly people and very beautiful landscapes. I lived in Rome for studyng and it was a terrible experience.. it is a fantastic city but very dangerous, expensive and so on. The south of Italy is very beautiful but there is mafia, in the north there are more possibilities to work.

twinpeaksy

You say you love Italy but you don't know that Italy is cut! Is cut in 2 or three parts. The immigrants that you might know there in America, are immigrants from south that also made ''Little Italy''. I need to say that, because i'm from north and i don't feel italian as you americans picture it. It is a problem in Italy, in fact some people of north want to be a state apart, because they feel more ''people of mountain'', more austrian. We also speak another dialect. In north we live 9 months on 12 with cold weather. But i know that you americans think Italy is a warm country. It is not in north. But it is in deep south...In fact people from south is more dark, i mean dark hair and skin. They're also more friendly i think because they go out more often. Anyway Italy is similar to America, Italy feels USA a lot. A lot of people at night where following the elections of the president! There's a very special feeling... Anyway north is not always cold. I think is the best place to live because you have mountains in winter, sea in summer, all four seasons, a lot of woods, lakes, rivers, monuments, there is everything! In December degrees can be -6 sometimes and sometimes it snow, and in summer (june, july,august) it can be also 30-35 degrees.
Almost all italians in north speak english, especially young people. I don't not in south if they do. We have fun as americans do (i think): go to cinema, go to theatre, bars, pubs, discos, camping, go to play with video games to your friend's house, go to sea in summer, go to mountain in winter. I think italians are very young and responsible. They get married usually after 30 or 35 y.o., there are not a lot of pregnant teenagers as america have! But i think there are more in south maybe... We also like to read (more in north i think) and listen to music (all over Italy) we love music...especially american music from 60s and 70s. And english music from the period. We have very good musicians, but the worse of italian music, i don't know why, but the worse become famous in the world! In fact nobody know the singer ''Elisa''.....I also think there is a lot of culture in Italy. School is not easy and we study a lot history, geography, and italian (grammar).
Oh god my head is on fire because of writing in english all that time! But i hope i helped...
I think you are from south, aren't you?

It's all a matter of opinion, and like any other country, it depends on the part of Itally. Just like, "is the USA a nice place to live.." Depends on where.

maryprinzessin

Ciao !!! I live in a small town in the south of Italy but i lived in Milan too. Yes it's a nice place to live and no, there aren't English people: the English people who come in Italy come here for travel

sorry for the mistakes but i don't speak English very well

ciao ciao !!!!!!!

If you want to practise your Italian you can write to me:
mary.swan@hotmail.it

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