2007-03-09 02:45:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Italy ➔ Other - Italy
Yes, it´s really stunning and geographically diverse place.
Excellent scenery, food, arts and culture, and I love the language!
However going somewhere for a vacation and living there are two completely different things.
My wife is from Italy and I am from South Africa.
It would have been a lot easier for us to live there but we chose Spain because the cost of living is cheaper and the politics are better.
Basically it´s easier to get things done here.
Hope this helps.
if you´re going for holidays have a great time anyway,
check out the lake districts in the North - Lago di Como, Lago Maggiore,
also Rome of course - the night life in Trastevere, and Ostia beach if you are going in Summer - the Romans make going to the beach an art form!
2007-03-09 03:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by turniton5 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Italy is a wonderful place... if you are a tourist: nice cities, history everywhere, breathtaking landscapes, nice and helpful people...
But living in Italy is completely different: chaotic and bad organized, everything goes slowly and nothing seems to work.
In comparison to other countries (example Germany, which I'm fond of) people in Italy really live in Middle-Ages, as Erlampo says. Both in the way things work and in the way people think and behave.
2007-03-11 16:16:32 · answer #2 · answered by LaLa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok I'm Italian too and I live in Italy, Rome (Caput Mundi!). Italy is a wonderful country, with wonderful people and very good food and wine. We have beautiful beaches (Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Liguria) and at the same time beautiful mountains too (Monte Bianco, Cervinio, etc). It is a country which is unique for its culture and its history.
For what concern bureaucracy it is true, it is very hard to live with it, but it is for this reason that Italians can easily find solutions and to face questions!!!! Sorry, but I cannot stand people making stupid reasoning!!!!!!
2007-03-13 01:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by Italy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Italy is just amazing. Just returned after a tour of italy. The best i liked about Italy... people are helpful and make you feel at home! will never think twice about visiting italy again.
2007-03-09 10:56:12 · answer #4 · answered by south_asian 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lala anche io sono italiana e non credo che stiamo proprio nel Medioevo, voglio dire, la differenza è tanta...di certo non impicchiamo la gente come invece si fa in molti paesi asiatici...loro altro che medioevo, vivono nell'età della pietra!!!certamente il nostro non è un paese perfetto e non siamo ai livelli dell'america...però...un pò di tolleranza!!!!ricordati che noi italiani abbiamo un'arte e una cultura che fa invidia al mondo intero...e solo perchè il nostro sistema governativo fa schifo non è detto che tutta l'italia fa schifo...I'm sorry for my message in Italian, howevere I'd like to say that we, in Italy, don't live in the middle-ages, remember that we have art, culture, literature....and dear american guys...who discovered America??Do you remember it?
2007-03-12 11:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by ...rosy... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
italy is extremly beautiful. i went when i was a senior in high school with my school. the only thing i didnt like was when the guys would bascially stolk us. they followed us everywhere. and that they thought we were easy bc we r american girls. other than that its breath-taking
2007-03-09 13:46:52 · answer #6 · answered by ..::..Lovin him..::.. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's one of Europe's most beautiful countries...I had been there several times and always loved it.
Nice people, wonderful & excellent food, lots of historic sites to discover, etc.
Greetings from Germany....
2007-03-09 10:59:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's a beautiful place to visit, but socially the Italians are still living in the Middle Ages. The bureaucracy is a nightmare and no one takes responsibility for anything.
2007-03-09 10:57:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋