Comments on: Dear Ms. Adventures: Help Me Move to Italy! http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2008/08/12/dear-ms-adventures-help-me-move-to-italy/ My Stomach and the World. Food, Recipes, Travel and Photography by Sara Rosso. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: trexie http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2008/08/12/dear-ms-adventures-help-me-move-to-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-155135 trexie Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:35:51 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/?p=637#comment-155135 hi Good Day... im a filipina 27yrs.old and i have a boyfriend in italy and he want me to go to italy just to be with him, and we are planning what kind of visa do i need to get and which is easier for me to get and the most fastest to get..can u suggest me to my problem?thank u and looking forward for ur response.. hi Good Day…

im a filipina 27yrs.old and i have a boyfriend in italy and he want me to go to italy just to be with him, and we are planning what kind of visa do i need to get and which is easier for me to get and the most fastest to get..can u suggest me to my problem?thank u and looking forward for ur response..

]]> By: Luca http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2008/08/12/dear-ms-adventures-help-me-move-to-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-155012 Luca Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:55:02 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/?p=637#comment-155012 As italian I'm really impressed to read here how many people want/dream to go to live in Italy. For sure Italy has great places, history, culture, art and incredible towns and places and I know that a lot of movies helped people to dream about this country. But all that is just a part of the real Italy, the other part is the day-living that can be very hard (ok, maybe not more hard to live daily in US)! Just some hints for people that want to move to Italy: - for EU citizens (UK included) there are no issues or difficulties because they don't need Visa or working permit (Move inside EU is like to move inside US); - English is not the second language for italians (unfortunately), ok, a lot of people speak english, most in the north or in touristic towns (that are a lot) but italian language is widely required/mandatory for day-life, even for basic services and the best way is to learn it as soon as possible... and don't care about mistakes, italians do not care if you are foreign, they will make their best to understand you and help you; - "work world" is completely different than in US or UK and that can be (or better... will be) an hard part of your life but is not impossible to find, in particular if you work as engineer, in fashion, turism, teaching. You have just to find the right place, for example, it is impossible to work as stylist in Palermo, the good towns for that field are Milan, Turin and, few places, in Rome and Veneto and Emilia Romagna regions if you are expert in shoes. Engineers can work almost every where in north and center Italy but not in the south (to be honest, south Italy is great and beautiful but the only work they have is turism, agricolture an nothing more). Then choice the right place for your job if you don't want to waste your time and money; - stereotypes are always present in foreign mind about Italy and Italians and that is funny for us. In any case Italy is a modern country with a lot of differences between north and south but is a XXI century country, you won't find mafia guys that try to shoot you or people that dance in fountains, no one drives a Gondola (unless they live in Venice and work as Gondola driver), play Mandolino or so on. Don't be scared, it is almost a safe country (more than UK or other EU country) but, in any case, don't call a person "mafia", it is not funny, not romantic as you think and is quite offensive! :D - healthcare is universal and for free for all, kids and adult. Even if you're a criminal that stay in Italy illegaly or if you don't have an euro, no one leave you die in the street, and Italian healthcare system (in particular in north and center country) is one of the best in the world (ranked as 4th in the world), for that, you don't have to scare at all! Hope this can help some of you in personal decision to relocate in Italy and... you are welcome to Italy! :) As italian I’m really impressed to read here how many people want/dream to go to live in Italy. For sure Italy has great places, history, culture, art and incredible towns and places and I know that a lot of movies helped people to dream about this country. But all that is just a part of the real Italy, the other part is the day-living that can be very hard (ok, maybe not more hard to live daily in US)!
Just some hints for people that want to move to Italy:
- for EU citizens (UK included) there are no issues or difficulties because they don’t need Visa or working permit (Move inside EU is like to move inside US);
- English is not the second language for italians (unfortunately), ok, a lot of people speak english, most in the north or in touristic towns (that are a lot) but italian language is widely required/mandatory for day-life, even for basic services and the best way is to learn it as soon as possible… and don’t care about mistakes, italians do not care if you are foreign, they will make their best to understand you and help you;
- “work world” is completely different than in US or UK and that can be (or better… will be) an hard part of your life but is not impossible to find, in particular if you work as engineer, in fashion, turism, teaching. You have just to find the right place, for example, it is impossible to work as stylist in Palermo, the good towns for that field are Milan, Turin and, few places, in Rome and Veneto and Emilia Romagna regions if you are expert in shoes. Engineers can work almost every where in north and center Italy but not in the south (to be honest, south Italy is great and beautiful but the only work they have is turism, agricolture an nothing more). Then choice the right place for your job if you don’t want to waste your time and money;
- stereotypes are always present in foreign mind about Italy and Italians and that is funny for us. In any case Italy is a modern country with a lot of differences between north and south but is a XXI century country, you won’t find mafia guys that try to shoot you or people that dance in fountains, no one drives a Gondola (unless they live in Venice and work as Gondola driver), play Mandolino or so on. Don’t be scared, it is almost a safe country (more than UK or other EU country) but, in any case, don’t call a person “mafia”, it is not funny, not romantic as you think and is quite offensive! :D
- healthcare is universal and for free for all, kids and adult. Even if you’re a criminal that stay in Italy illegaly or if you don’t have an euro, no one leave you die in the street, and Italian healthcare system (in particular in north and center country) is one of the best in the world (ranked as 4th in the world), for that, you don’t have to scare at all!

Hope this can help some of you in personal decision to relocate in Italy and… you are welcome to Italy! :)

]]> By: Geri Schiavino http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2008/08/12/dear-ms-adventures-help-me-move-to-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-152298 Geri Schiavino Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:00:28 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/?p=637#comment-152298 I am 61 and my daughter is 26. We are planning to live in Italy in a year or so. I am in the process of trying to obtaining dual citizenship through my father and paternal grandparents. If I don't get dual citizenship, how do I go about living there or retiring there? My daughter is in the fashion industry and wants to work in Florence. It this a dream for us or can we make it reality? I am 61 and my daughter is 26. We are planning to live in Italy in a year or so. I am in the process of trying to obtaining dual citizenship through my father and paternal grandparents. If I don’t get dual citizenship, how do I go about living there or retiring there? My daughter is in the fashion industry and wants to work in Florence. It this a dream for us or can we make it reality?

]]> By: kevin http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2008/08/12/dear-ms-adventures-help-me-move-to-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-152135 kevin Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:26:16 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/?p=637#comment-152135 hi. i have just found a list off running events you have posted on the web. i will be going to san lucido near Cosenzak on the 7th of july for a week and was looking for a race to do there .do you know off any race from 5k to half marathon. thanks hi.
i have just found a list off running events you have posted on the web.
i will be going to san lucido near Cosenzak on the 7th of july for a week and was looking for a race to do there .do you know off any race from 5k to half marathon.

thanks

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