Irene, gratzie mille! Your passion and love for Italy is infectious. Much love to you and I hope you always follow your heart. Home will forever call, my love. Call back when you’re ready to come home. Much love, bella.
@@irene_italian I am from Argentina living in Connecticut,USA for 42 years and I miss the same things you miss from Italy….i went to Italy 3 times and I understand you very well is soooo beautiful
In USA it seems like everything is money and basically every interaction is transactional… I feel like all I think about is money and survival here… I am so lonely!
Follow the heart babygirl. Family is more valuable than money. The years I spent with my parents is far more important than years of working for money. Especially since they are gone now. God Bless.
Irene, think long and hard about supporting yourself in Italy. Watching your videos your Mother, Father, and grandparents are very important. I see how proud of you your Father is. The smile on his face says out loud how proud he is of you. I lost my parents 30 years ago and think of them every day.
I Love how you include your Dad in your outings!!! I can see he really loves you!!! What a beautiful place Italy is! I can't wait to go there some day!!!
You are so authentic and an absolute treasure. You speak of things that really make life worthwhile. The Italian lifestyle is the gold standard of how we should prioritize our time together. Bravo!! You are beautiful in and out. Congratulations to your parents for raising such a beautiful daughter!
Non Avevo ancora visto questo video seii meravigliosa e mi. Manchi da morire ma forse l Italia è così nel cuore di chi si allontana e ricorda le cose belle.
Ciao Irene I can fully understand what you are saying as I am from the UK and I only have a few years until I retire to Calabria with my Italian wife who is from Napoli I absolutely love everything about Italy from the people to the culture keep the excellent videos coming all the best ❤🍷👍
Italy has lots of opportunities also !! Big place... if you can make a living on line .. the world is your oyster 😊 or where ever they serve the best pasta 😊
oh dear Irene, you started crying through the video... 💦 because you miss Italy so much... I can so, so understand you! I've seen a few videos of you, being surrounded by your family, and the glorious south Italian landscapes... 🌄🌻🌅 ... you are like a fish in the water there 🐟... I think its good to leave, what we love and are used to, even if its only to experience, how much we value, what is our home ground... 💖 Here's my story: I left my home country of Germany more than 20 years ago, and I'm now living in Scotland... although I can miss my home country, relatives & friends there, I'm so happy up here in the north - I just have, what I call, a northern soul, and that is what counts to me: my soul needs to feel home, where I am, and in my case, its in this land of rainbows 🌈 My feeling is, that you will eventually return to Italy, because I think that your soul is most happy and satisfied there, but maybe you are still in the phase to explore living abroad (...and as you currently study French, I guess that you might want to move there next!)... enjoy it! How exciting it must be to stand on the moon, and see the earth in a distance, but the longing and gratitude for our blue planet will also be at its absolute peak then and there! 🌜🌍 We are explorers, adventurers, who have to leave home (like Frodo & Sam), and only then can value truly, what we left behind... ...looking forward to your summer videos in Italy... I know already, that you will look soooo happy!!! 😎
Very moving and beautiful video! My maternal grandparents come from Sicily, and I have visited the south of Italy a few times and really love all the things you describe. I would love to try living there someday (I am running out of "somedays"!). I am lucky to have watched this video!
Thank you Irene for a beautiful tribute to Italian life! I am a second generation Italian American and although my great grandfather came to America for a better life, pwehaps now I think I can find a better life in Italy! I long to visit and live in Sicily someday!
Irene. Really like your videos. It is very difficult to move away from "home" to make a better life somewhere else due to financial opportunities. What helps me is to truly remember who I am and where I came from, while fully adopting my new country. I think you have an excellent balance in life. Keep on smiling :)
Nothing wrong with having moved away and seen another part of the world, but, as you say, you also have to consider your quality of life. London's a big city, and probably very exciting, but do you want to grow old there? I moved from a rural state in the US to "the big city", and over-all, I enjoyed it, but I think I stayed too long. In my 20s, 30s, and 40s, it was great. Now that I'm in my early 60s, not so much. Now I want something quieter. But my family is gone. I never had any kids. It's just me. And my bffs son who calls me "grandma". I like that. :)
I'm originally from Iran and have been living in the u.s for 36 years, I miss a lot of things about my culture and lifestyle, so different than the American culture, just like Italians, we prioritize family and friends, relaxation over work, to little things like how we take 50 items with us for a picnic, no wonder so many people have anxiety and depression in the u.s, lots of people live too far from their families and barely visit each other.sundays most stores are open and it doesn't really feel like a different day, it seems work and working to pay bills is what we have to do here.In the city where I live, like most American cities, there are no squares where people and families can walk together in the evenings (unlike Iran), city parks are empty by 9 or 10pm, restaurants close at 10pm, the city feels dead and life becomes boring.An exception is probably New York city, it's more vibrant and lively. I wish the city planners thought about places where families can gather in the evenings instead of being in front of TV or a game console.
Irene. I love how Authentic you are. Love watching your videos with your parents and your life in Italy. I love your contents and also love Italy myself. Even though as a Cuban I understand what you feel for Italy. Thank you for sharing. Ciao for now. :)
It is very healthy to put yourself in uncomfortable situations, bear with them and see them through to the end. These uncomfortable situations are only temporary but the satisfaction of completing them is permanent. It builds self esteem, confidence and makes life so much more interesting.
My Italian/American friend lived in New Jersey, near his mom, mother in law and grandmother, he would turn down better jobs if it meant moving. Every Sunday he would have a meal at his moms, then one at his mother in law’s, then grandma’s! 3 meals every Dunday!!😂
Anch'io la penso come te. MIoIl mioIl mio La mia famiglia è pugliese e ho viaggiato in tutto il mondo. Ma avevo e ho ancora nostalgia della mia Italia. E se un giorno troverò una moglie, dovrà essere italiana. Porterà nel cuore la mentalità e il calore dell'Italia.
Hello Irene, I just watched your latest video about you missing Italy. To be very honest with you… I’ve been wondering why you’ve been away so long. Because, I know how much you love your home country after watching so many of your videos! This is my first message to you but I’ve been an admirer of yours for several months now! Allow me to introduce myself to you: I am Michael Antonio Fortunato A second generation American/Italian living in Florida, USA. My family is from Naples and Sicily. I too am in love with Italy! I know you’re most likely busy writing to many of your fans regularly. However, I would be honored to correspond with you as it is my desire to visit Italy for the first time next spring . I truly look forward to your reply! God bless! Michael😎
Find the balance in life. Your family and Calabria are your wealth as it is so much a part of you. Someday you will go back for good and raise your own family. That would be great to see on RUclips someday. Ciao Bella
Here in California.. What i miss the most is the slow pace/ lifestyle...🥰😃, but i make 10x $$ and can do many things that i couldn't anywhereelse... , i wish Italy had much better economy and a big tech-biz center //.. But its a great balance of both..
Irene, I’m also an Italian 🇮🇹 living abroad and I agree with all of your points. Sometimes I ask myself whether I should just go back to Italy to my family, other than food and familiar mentality. I hope we do find the best “solution” to this dilemma soon, if there’s nothing specific holding us abroad 😀 Btw - the links in your bio don’t work, is it just me?
Many Many Congratulations Dear on 36K Subscribers and I wish one day you will reach 100K Subscribers very very soon 🥹🥹💗💗 and I will support you so so so so much
I live in France and visited Palermo. It was an incredible experience. Should I say I also had a short love story out there😅. Im American. I would never live or work in the UK. It’s seem too dry. I can imagine you miss the warmth of your culture. The food is awful out there. Poor you
The Italian government needs to make it easier for people of Italian heritage to gain citizenship, so that we can come to Italy and enrich their culture and simultaneously enjoy all of the benefits of being an Italian citizen. Right now, the Italian government has their priorities backwards.
I understand your perspective but what you propose presents a number of challenges. If you are working age, you will have a hard time finding a job here unless you speak perfect Italian and have a needed skill, and even then it will be difficult. If you are retired, you are ultimately going to place a burden on the healthcare and other social systems, which are already strained. If you want to come as an entrepreneur and start a business with your own capital, you will have to navigate a complex bureaucracy, again with your perfect Italian and cultural savvy. Also, no matter who you are, Italy is still a socially and culturally conservative country and you would have to conform to it to have any success. If you did not grow up here, that is going to be harder than you think. And as for the idea that immigrants enrich a country culturally, that is an American model of immigration and cultural assimilation that might not fit Italy very well. Again, I get what you are saying, but achieving the Italy you imagine would be pretty hard, and not all that desirable or conceivable to a lot Italians and Italian institutions.
@@thomasjpuleo8112 What if Italy deported all of the Middle-Eastern and African migrants, and allowed Italian-heritage Americans of working age to take their place? I don't see how that would be a bad thing.
Middle Eastern not so much. African and Eastern European migrants provide very low skill labor: caretakers for the elderly, agricultural work, factory work . . . and even they complain about the low pay and hard conditions.
@@SweatLaserXPim an Italian American currently pursuing citizenship via Jure sanguines. I got with an argument with a native born italian online the other day saying the middle eastern and africans born there are “more italian” than me. I thought that was absurd because the italian government disagrees and will recognize me soon as a citizen
The Romans conquered half of Europe. The Italians can restore Italy to a wonderful place if they just have the political will to kick out all of the undesirable elements...
It sounds like you're really homesick. I'm sorry to hear that, but also, probably, the UK lifestyle is really not great? I've never been there, but I've heard the weather is miserable, and the food, at least on youtube, doesn't look very good at all. If you want the lifestyle of Italy, and the opportunity available in the UK, perhaps there's somewhere that offers both? Leaving home is hard, but maybe it doesn't have to be SO HARD haha.
I love this video but why is there so little diversity in the footage? I'm not saying that it's a bad thing... It's just that the media has trained us to be suspicious of non-diverse European places. Is this actually the way to happiness for Europeans?
What are you even talking about? It's a sweet video about her home country and family. You're looking for an amount of diversity (whatever you mean by that) to suit your taste and then go on to make an insinuation about Europeans. I'm not even European, but think your comment is weird considering the beauty of what she just posted.
I recently broke up with an Italian woman. FYI ragazzi: contemporary Italian women "love" family, but don't want to actually have children. My next girlfriend will be Slavic or from the Southern United States. I didn't work hard to achieve in life in order to marry a businessman.
What do you miss the most about your country? Let me know here💕
I live in Canada and I sure as shit won't miss this suck ass woke shithole when I move to Italy upon retirement.
Irene, gratzie mille! Your passion and love for Italy is infectious. Much love to you and I hope you always follow your heart. Home will forever call, my love. Call back when you’re ready to come home. Much love, bella.
@@irene_italian I am from Argentina living in Connecticut,USA for 42 years and I miss the same things you miss from Italy….i went to Italy 3 times and I understand you very well is soooo beautiful
The best food, the best wine, the best music and the best women.
In USA it seems like everything is money and basically every interaction is transactional… I feel like all I think about is money and survival here… I am so lonely!
Follow the heart babygirl. Family is more valuable than money. The years I spent with my parents is far more important than years of working for money. Especially since they are gone now. God Bless.
You are my RE teacher
Irene, think long and hard about supporting yourself in Italy. Watching your videos your Mother, Father, and grandparents are very important. I see how proud of you your Father is. The smile on his face says out loud how proud he is of you. I lost my parents 30 years ago and think of them every day.
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Beautiful, heartfelt video. Your wisdom is a reflection on your family and your culture. ❤
Love your channel. My grandparents came to NY in 1914 from Corleone, Sicily. I recall our traditions from Sunday dinners together.
I Love how you include your Dad in your outings!!! I can see he really loves you!!! What a beautiful place Italy is! I can't wait to go there some day!!!
You are so authentic and an absolute treasure. You speak of things that really make life worthwhile. The Italian lifestyle is the gold standard of how we should prioritize our time together. Bravo!!
You are beautiful in and out. Congratulations to your parents for raising such a beautiful daughter!
You should do more what i eat in day/week videos 😊
What a beautiful commentary on your beloved homeland. I would think it's an incredible blessing to be born Italian.
Beautiful video, Irene. Thank you for sharing your love of Italy and your family!
I love this! Exactly what we discussed. You know my vote. Vive Italia! In the end my friend, you must follow the laughter. It is where love is born.
Non Avevo ancora visto questo video seii meravigliosa e mi. Manchi da morire ma forse l Italia è così nel cuore di chi si allontana e ricorda le cose belle.
Ciao Irene I can fully understand what you are saying as I am from the UK and I only have a few years until I retire to Calabria with my Italian wife who is from Napoli I absolutely love everything about Italy from the people to the culture keep the excellent videos coming all the best ❤🍷👍
Italy has lots of opportunities also !! Big place... if you can make a living on line .. the world is your oyster 😊 or where ever they serve the best pasta 😊
Buone ferie, bellissima Irene 🌹. E' sempre un piacere vederti
oh dear Irene, you started crying through the video... 💦 because you miss Italy so much... I can so, so understand you! I've seen a few videos of you, being surrounded by your family, and the glorious south Italian landscapes... 🌄🌻🌅 ... you are like a fish in the water there 🐟...
I think its good to leave, what we love and are used to, even if its only to experience, how much we value, what is our home ground... 💖
Here's my story: I left my home country of Germany more than 20 years ago, and I'm now living in Scotland... although I can miss my home country, relatives & friends there, I'm so happy up here in the north - I just have, what I call, a northern soul, and that is what counts to me: my soul needs to feel home, where I am, and in my case, its in this land of rainbows 🌈
My feeling is, that you will eventually return to Italy, because I think that your soul is most happy and satisfied there, but maybe you are still in the phase to explore living abroad (...and as you currently study French, I guess that you might want to move there next!)... enjoy it!
How exciting it must be to stand on the moon, and see the earth in a distance, but the longing and gratitude for our blue planet will also be at its absolute peak then and there! 🌜🌍
We are explorers, adventurers, who have to leave home (like Frodo & Sam), and only then can value truly, what we left behind...
...looking forward to your summer videos in Italy... I know already, that you will look soooo happy!!! 😎
Very moving and beautiful video! My maternal grandparents come from Sicily, and I have visited the south of Italy a few times and really love all the things you describe. I would love to try living there someday (I am running out of "somedays"!). I am lucky to have watched this video!
Thank you Irene for a beautiful tribute to Italian life! I am a second generation Italian American and although my great grandfather came to America for a better life, pwehaps now I think I can find a better life in Italy! I long to visit and live in Sicily someday!
Irene. Really like your videos. It is very difficult to move away from "home" to make a better life somewhere else due to financial opportunities. What helps me is to truly remember who I am and where I came from, while fully adopting my new country. I think you have an excellent balance in life. Keep on smiling :)
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Your videos are always so comforting.😊
Nothing wrong with having moved away and seen another part of the world, but, as you say, you also have to consider your quality of life. London's a big city, and probably very exciting, but do you want to grow old there? I moved from a rural state in the US to "the big city", and over-all, I enjoyed it, but I think I stayed too long. In my 20s, 30s, and 40s, it was great. Now that I'm in my early 60s, not so much. Now I want something quieter. But my family is gone. I never had any kids. It's just me. And my bffs son who calls me "grandma". I like that. :)
you almost made my cry, lovely video
the food IS amazing!! i went for 3 months and THE best food. the people there were amazing also!!!
I prefer to stay in la Toscana,😅i love this place with vineyards,and the landscape.
Bravo! Tuscany is the most beautiful region in Italy. It has no equal in italy and in the world! 👍😉ps. Guess where i'm from? 😂😂😂
I'm originally from Iran and have been living in the u.s for 36 years, I miss a lot of things about my culture and lifestyle, so different than the American culture, just like Italians, we prioritize family and friends, relaxation over work, to little things like how we take 50 items with us for a picnic, no wonder so many people have anxiety and depression in the u.s, lots of people live too far from their families and barely visit each other.sundays most stores are open and it doesn't really feel like a different day, it seems work and working to pay bills is what we have to do here.In the city where I live, like most American cities, there are no squares where people and families can walk together in the evenings (unlike Iran), city parks are empty by 9 or 10pm, restaurants close at 10pm, the city feels dead and life becomes boring.An exception is probably New York city, it's more vibrant and lively. I wish the city planners thought about places where families can gather in the evenings instead of being in front of TV or a game console.
The US is all about being corporate serfs and wasting your life to make other people's dreams come true - an American.
Irene, I miss your posts. Please post from London. 🤗😘
Irene. I love how Authentic you are. Love watching your videos with your parents and your life in Italy. I love your contents and also love Italy myself. Even though as a Cuban I understand what you feel for Italy. Thank you for sharing. Ciao for now. :)
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Wise words, bravo Irene!
I agree, wouldnt want to miss it for all the end in the world... UK is going down.
It is very healthy to put yourself in uncomfortable situations, bear with them and see them through to the end. These uncomfortable situations are only temporary but the satisfaction of completing them is permanent. It builds self esteem, confidence and makes life so much more interesting.
Loved your words
I found 6, 7 and 8: Cipolla di Tropea, Nduja, Pipi
My Italian/American friend lived in New Jersey, near his mom, mother in law and grandmother, he would turn down better jobs if it meant moving. Every Sunday he would have a meal at his moms, then one at his mother in law’s, then grandma’s! 3 meals every Dunday!!😂
Anch'io la penso come te. MIoIl mioIl mio
La mia famiglia è pugliese e ho viaggiato in tutto il mondo. Ma avevo e ho ancora nostalgia della mia Italia.
E se un giorno troverò una moglie, dovrà essere italiana. Porterà nel cuore la mentalità e il calore dell'Italia.
Your videos are always beautiful!
Everything that you said was so beautiful Viva Italia
She’s my RE teacher 💀
Tonight for some reason I remembered that you haven’t released a video for a long time. and it came out in the morning
LOL
7:25 so true about the UK
Miss come back to history
If you are still living in London I can understand your longing for Italy. England is nice but the food is not the same as Italy.
i miss your videos 😊
How sweet! I was thinking about you because I thought you were in Campania and I heard there was an earthquake.
Hi Irene yes Italy is known for family but there are dysfunctional and split up families there too. I speak from personal experience.
Hello Irene, I just watched your latest video about you missing Italy. To be very honest with you… I’ve been wondering why you’ve been away so long. Because, I know how much you love your home country after watching so many of your videos!
This is my first message to you but I’ve been an admirer of yours for several months now!
Allow me to introduce myself to you:
I am Michael Antonio Fortunato
A second generation American/Italian living in Florida, USA. My family is from Naples and Sicily. I too am in love with Italy!
I know you’re most likely busy writing to many of your fans regularly. However, I would be honored to correspond with you as it is my desire to visit Italy for the first time next spring .
I truly look forward to your reply! God bless!
Michael😎
Find the balance in life. Your family and Calabria are your wealth as it is so much a part of you. Someday you will go back for good and raise your own family. That would be great to see on RUclips someday. Ciao Bella
can pls talk about that huge mountain 9:29 ? he look so big wow , Italy is so beautiful everything's is good
Here in California.. What i miss the most is the slow pace/ lifestyle...🥰😃, but i make 10x $$ and can do many things that i couldn't anywhereelse... , i wish Italy had much better economy and a big tech-biz center //.. But its a great balance of both..
Ciao Irene ti amo 😊
Irene, I’m also an Italian 🇮🇹 living abroad and I agree with all of your points.
Sometimes I ask myself whether I should just go back to Italy to my family, other than food and familiar mentality.
I hope we do find the best “solution” to this dilemma soon, if there’s nothing specific holding us abroad 😀
Btw - the links in your bio don’t work, is it just me?
This is one big promo video for Italy and Italians... where do I sign?
You are my dream girl❤😊
Many Many Congratulations Dear on 36K Subscribers and I wish one day you will reach 100K Subscribers very very soon 🥹🥹💗💗 and I will support you so so so so much
I live in France and visited Palermo. It was an incredible experience. Should I say I also had a short love story out there😅. Im American.
I would never live or work in the UK. It’s seem too dry. I can imagine you miss the warmth of your culture. The food is awful out there. Poor you
Sei bellissima ❤❤❤io sono di San Nicola da Crissa
What a beautiful woman. In every single way.
Family 1st
Better move back to Italy
Irene sappi che io mi ritengo estremamente sposato con te
Where did you moved ….good luck 💕
The Italian government needs to make it easier for people of Italian heritage to gain citizenship, so that we can come to Italy and enrich their culture and simultaneously enjoy all of the benefits of being an Italian citizen. Right now, the Italian government has their priorities backwards.
I understand your perspective but what you propose presents a number of challenges. If you are working age, you will have a hard time finding a job here unless you speak perfect Italian and have a needed skill, and even then it will be difficult. If you are retired, you are ultimately going to place a burden on the healthcare and other social systems, which are already strained. If you want to come as an entrepreneur and start a business with your own capital, you will have to navigate a complex bureaucracy, again with your perfect Italian and cultural savvy. Also, no matter who you are, Italy is still a socially and culturally conservative country and you would have to conform to it to have any success. If you did not grow up here, that is going to be harder than you think. And as for the idea that immigrants enrich a country culturally, that is an American model of immigration and cultural assimilation that might not fit Italy very well. Again, I get what you are saying, but achieving the Italy you imagine would be pretty hard, and not all that desirable or conceivable to a lot Italians and Italian institutions.
@@thomasjpuleo8112 What if Italy deported all of the Middle-Eastern and African migrants, and allowed Italian-heritage Americans of working age to take their place? I don't see how that would be a bad thing.
Middle Eastern not so much. African and Eastern European migrants provide very low skill labor: caretakers for the elderly, agricultural work, factory work . . . and even they complain about the low pay and hard conditions.
@@SweatLaserXPim an Italian American currently pursuing citizenship via Jure sanguines. I got with an argument with a native born italian online the other day saying the middle eastern and africans born there are “more italian” than me. I thought that was absurd because the italian government disagrees and will recognize me soon as a citizen
@@GotUrRain Let me know how it turns out. I will be pursuing Jure sanguines shortly.
You sounded very depressed in your last video ,you sound a bit happier now , if the uk is depressing for you ,you should go back to Italy
Mi spiace Irene 🎉
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Your mother is a beautiful woman.
The Romans conquered half of Europe. The Italians can restore Italy to a wonderful place if they just have the political will to kick out all of the undesirable elements...
where are you my dear re teacher
ur not instagram anymore?
Ciao sei italiana? Se si si che Regione?
Sweet scenics from a sweet girl 🤟
It sounds like you're really homesick. I'm sorry to hear that, but also, probably, the UK lifestyle is really not great? I've never been there, but I've heard the weather is miserable, and the food, at least on youtube, doesn't look very good at all. If you want the lifestyle of Italy, and the opportunity available in the UK, perhaps there's somewhere that offers both? Leaving home is hard, but maybe it doesn't have to be SO HARD haha.
Is Italy even on the same planet as the US?😬
I love this video but why is there so little diversity in the footage? I'm not saying that it's a bad thing... It's just that the media has trained us to be suspicious of non-diverse European places. Is this actually the way to happiness for Europeans?
What are you even talking about? It's a sweet video about her home country and family. You're looking for an amount of diversity (whatever you mean by that) to suit your taste and then go on to make an insinuation about Europeans. I'm not even European, but think your comment is weird considering the beauty of what she just posted.
@@kw7709 what I'm saying is that her video lacks diversity and vibrancy. Aren't those the things that are supposed to make society better?
No necessarily. It is the American model but look at the problems it entails even or especially in the US.
I recently broke up with an Italian woman. FYI ragazzi: contemporary Italian women "love" family, but don't want to actually have children. My next girlfriend will be Slavic or from the Southern United States. I didn't work hard to achieve in life in order to marry a businessman.
Why on earth would u wanna come London so expensive dangerous rough dirty unfriendly and rubbish weather