Given this is the Daily Life area I would like to talk about just that. I was wondering if you would take a moment or two and let me know what you like or would recommend about your area. It's open to all things from good local beer, sights to see and things to do. If there are amusement parks, water parks what buildings and places of interest you would recommend. I know of all the major sights to see and I could buy a book from a travel agent and read what they think. But I wanted to hear from people who actually live and do things in Italy.

My mom was just in town this weekend and all of here visits have focused on the center of Italy (Marche, Terni, Visso and Sanmarino) and most of her comments have dealt with the beauty of the land. It's mountains and little towns were her and her fiances family live.

I continue to view as much as I can via the Google Earth and do feel partial to the Torino area, somewhat specific to Rivoli. (I eventually want to find out about schools in the area). But much like a political opinion, it doesn't mean I don't want to hear others, see them or wouldn't have a change of heart with a closer look.

I have 3 young children (6yr,4yr and 9mos.), a desire to live in Italy and would like to absorb as much as I can while I prepare for my initial visit.

Gracie.

i like lake garda, we have mountains...
veronas a roman city,so theres good history.

but from what ive seen italys good all over, i know torino,its a good city...
the general area,i dont know about that to much.

I like the beach and scenic beauty. Seafood is good depending on the restaurant. Wine - rosso conero - is good. So are Conte Leopardi's whites. People are fairly laid back (I used to live in Lucca, this has been a major change from the Lucchesi). I can walk to all shops, PO, pharmacy, etc. If I feel the need for city life there is Ancona, which I, unlike most people, actually like.
What I do not like are the hordes of tourists in August, nor the boat people (people who come down from the hills on the weekend all dressed up and stand around and look at the boats in the harbor for hours).

Well, I just got here a couple of months ago, so I don't have much perspective, but what I really like here so far is actually the daily life itself, I think.

I don't know if it's the novelty of it, or if I'm hopelessly naive or what, but I just really like walking through the streets (sometimes on cobblestones, sometimes past beautiful old buildings, sometimes past the guy selling chestnuts on the corner) and hearing Italian spoken all around me. I like going to mass and spending half the sermon puzzling over the priest's thick Parma accent and the other half staring at the ceiling. I like running into my students in town on a Sunday afternoon and provoking a chorus of "hello!" from a group of Italian seven-year-olds. I like pizza (real pizza!) on a Sunday night, and aperitivo on Friday, and a day trip to Bologna on a Saturday.

Okay, now I'm getting rambly... anyway, though, I live in Reggio Emilia and it's a lovely smallish-to-medium-sized town and also great for children - home of the Reggio approach and very child-centered, in my opinion, with lots of programming for children and things like that.

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Originally posted by raindrop423:
Well, I just got here a couple of months ago, so I don't have much perspective, but what I really like here so far is actually the daily life itself, I think.

I don't know if it's the novelty of it, or if I'm hopelessly naive or what, but I just really like walking through the streets (sometimes on cobblestones, sometimes past beautiful old buildings, sometimes past the guy selling chestnuts on the corner) and hearing Italian spoken all around me. I like going to mass and spending half the sermon puzzling over the priest's thick Parma accent and the other half staring at the ceiling. I like running into my students in town on a Sunday afternoon and provoking a chorus of "hello!" from a group of Italian seven-year-olds. I like pizza (real pizza!) on a Sunday night, and aperitivo on Friday, and a day trip to Bologna on a Saturday.

Okay, now I'm getting rambly... anyway, though, I live in Reggio Emilia and it's a lovely smallish-to-medium-sized town and also great for children - home of the Reggio approach and very child-centered, in my opinion, with lots of programming for children and things like that.

Oh dear.... you're not 'getting rambly' at all. Know what you've got?

You've got the "Italy Bug"!!!
Yes indeed - You've been bitten. No escape now - it's in your heart

Never mind though Join the rest of us...