Article - An Expat's View of "Italy: Love it or Leave It"

[Pauline]

Great article by Rebecca, who many of us know from SlowTrav, about living in Italy.

Dream of Italy blog - Italy, Love it or Leave It.
https://dreamofitaly.com/2014/05/21/an-expa/

(Link corrected.)

 

[Stef]

Link doesnt work!

 

[joe]

I recommend the movie "Italy, Love It or Leave It" that is referred to in the article - - quite a nice documentary, humorous in a wry way.

Emigration - a great subject for discussion. Nowadays not as hard as in the past, when you take into account the low cost of transportation, and the ease to access information. Anyone who doesn't live in the country they were born in knows that this is a topic which can be dissected infinitely. The saying that "the grass is greener on the other side" has as its possible opposite : "don't judge a book by its cover".

For another perspective on the article mentioned above, read what this Italian has to say about what he doesn't like about Italy (plus the many comments) :
http://www.thepolyglotdream.com/7-things-i-hate-about-italy/

...and how some Italian ex-pats living in the UK feel after the Brexit decision :
https://www.thelocal.it/20160624/italians-in-uk-after-all-these-years-we-feel-unwanted

 

[Ian Sutton]

For those in the last link I for one am very happy to have them here, so if by any remote chance they read this, they'll know there are those that appreciate the Italians (and Polish, Hungarians, etc.) that are here. I hope they stay and that that option is quickly and clearly confirmed.