Very useful, Rafael. Did you say that retired people are better going to the north of Italy? It would be interesting to hear more of your opinions. Thank you 😊
Hey there @janetlombardi2314 your question made it into episode 291 which was just uploaded, you'll be able to find a response to your comment in the episode: ruclips.net/video/y6gCLNW6r0k/видео.html&ab_channel=RafaelDiFuria-NotYourAverageGlobetrotter
This was fabulous, Rafael. I would love to continue this thread on locations and surrounding culture, and cost of living, etc. I too am working on my plan B/ retirement chapter. Thank you for your in-depth topics.
I like comparison videos between Italy and Portugal. Also, perhaps do a video on the different festivals that exist in both countries and possibly around Europe.
Grazie mille, Rafael!! Yes, I'd love to hear more about moving to Italy. My dual citizenship application is currently being processed for Italy, so moving there is in my future.
Hi Rafi. Yes, please more Italy content. We just moved to Puglia from the U.S in January. We've been watching and subscribed to your channel for the past three years while we planned our move to Italy for retirement. Lots of informative and helpful content. Grazie mille.
As always, very useful informative content, it’s very much appreciated for someone like me who is thinking about buying property and moving to Italy thank you very much for everything you do and everything you post and your channel is fantastic
Just uploaded a new video and a couple more over the last few weeks 😁 Here’s the latest: Living in Italy: Beautifully Complicated? ruclips.net/video/LD1AT7934x0/видео.html
Wonderful Rafael . We very much enjoyed this video. I was in contact with you when we were in Braga late last year. Now we have spent nearly 3 months in Umbria. First Orvieto, now currently in Panicale and have so enjoyed it 😊 I do think with the Portugal rental and property explosion probably from D7 and Golden visa, and now Digital nomad visa; that Italy offers a better retirement monthly spend than Portugal. But we are still exploring our options. We also spent a month last year in Puglia and I agree that many elements of Italy South are more run down than Italy central. Keep the videos coming please.
Great vid! More Italian info, please! 🙏🏼 Also about the South: (not bashing, just good to know) in some cities trash & littering is pretty bad, including on beaches. And you know the US RUclipsr QKatie? (Didn't you interview her?) When she & her husband lived in Puglia, their new car was stolen from their neighborhood. They got another new car & it was stolen too! So yes, Italy's very safe, but there's **some** crime.
I'd love more Italy content. That's the main reason I follow you. As a dual US/Italian citizen now, I'm finally planning to make the move to Italy (been an expat in other countries for 12 years now), but I can't decide where to go. All of my family live in Sicily, but I just can't do that humid climate and being so geographically isolated. I'm also not really a beach person (I know, ) and prefer the mountains. I work for myself online, so finding employment is not a factor, so I'm leaning toward the north (somewhere within an hour train ride from Milan) because I want to be more connected to good airports and train network. I don't mind a colder climate, but coming from a very dry climate in the US, and living in very humid climates overseas, I have to say that I really hate humidity and prefer somewhere drier. From your experience, any suggestions on whether any places in northern Italy fit that bill? I'm considering Bergamo, Verona, or even Torino. Ideally, I'd like to be between Milan and Venice, but I know the closer you get to Venice, the more humid it gets. Would love your suggestions and/or more videos pertaining to this. Thanks for the great content, as always!
Spot on Rafael about the Southern part.. a lot of young people move out due to low employment... it is more rural and agriculture is still the main work. Lower pay. A lower cost of living is an attraction to retirees..... Less english is used as a second language. Not as much modern style entertainment as the North.
Thanks so much for expanding this n that point, you bring up a very necessary idea about entertainment, something that I barely touched on in this episode.
@@Mongoose-ct6us Who told you that? Italy has a national language which is Italian and several local languages called dialects. In the south the two main local languages are Sicilian and Neapolitan. These two languages have, compared to Italian, a few words more similar to the Spanish version but they sound even more different than Italian from Spanish. However, Italians usually speak Italian with foreigners and use dialects only among themselves.
@@zaqwsx23 Con Lei parliamo Italiano perche sapiamo que lei e Turista ma tra di noi parliamo Siciliano which is Italian mixed with Spanish and Catalan. This is what they told me during my time in Sicily. Instead of Cattivo Sicilians say Malo like in Spanish.
@@Mongoose-ct6us Sicilian is not Spanish mixed with Catalan. It's a different Romance language with its own dialects. Sicilian dialects are spoken in Sicily, South and Centre of Calabria and south of Apulia. Words like "cattivo" and "malo" (which it's actually "malu" in Sicilian) are from Latin and each Romance language has its own usage of Latin words. Probably Sicilians were simplifying the concept meaning that Spanish has influenced Sicilian like other languages. Spanish took many words from Italian but it's still Spanish.
Yes, please share more content on moving/living in Italy. I'm still working on trying to get my Italian citizenship by descent and hope to move within the next year or two. The process of getting the needed documents is very slow but hopefully it won't be much longer. I totally agree with you about the pizza, too. I've been to Sicily and also to Venice and the pizza I had in Venice was superb; best I've ever had!
Great content. This is such an important video for me. I’m retiring to Italy in 5 years and I’m looking to take advantage of the 7% tax credits available if I move to a town in the central or southern provinces.
Great episode Rafael. My heart will always be in Italy. 🇮🇹 We’ve considered retiring in PT from US only in past 3-4 years. What favors PT over IT has been cost of living. Given current real estate ‘rat race’ in PT, I don’t know if PT (Braga/Porto or Lisbon area or Algarve) will be ‘worthwhile’ over familiar locations in IT. Hence, always keeping Italy as our ‘Plan B.’ So life style comparisons PT-IT by you are always appreciated. 🙏🏻 BTW-do they have colomba in PT? 🕊️ 🤔 Buona Pasqua.
LOL! You must really be affected by the cold! We just spent our first full winter in Bolzano, and I didn't find it particularly cold. It was about the same as Stuttgart. Wearing wool and fleece is the key. One of the things I love about Bolzano is how well everything is kept. Parks and roads are cleaned every day. The streets are in great shape, and everything is clean. Trains go everywhere, but our airport is very small. To get to a major airport takes a while.
Although I have relatives in Florence as a retired person my choice to purchase a house is in the south, perhaps the region of Molise, or Abruzzo. Grew up in a small town in US, and spent a couple decades as a adult living in small town. Like to know the merchants and they recognize you as a repeat customer. Would avoid the large and even medium size cities where one is anonymous.
Would love more about central Italy and Abruzzo; we visited Rome and some surrounding towns in Campania and Pescara and a few towns/villages in Abruzzo. Love these areas!
In the North, in the Alps, of course the weather is cold. In the sub-alpine area and the main plains, pianura Padana, it's not very cold but it is brutally humid, and that is worse than freezing cold.
Yeah but even below the alps you can still get freezing weather in the winter and then the humidity on top makes it even worse. But even then I’ve expierenced quite a bit of humidity in the alps both in hotter and cooler weather.
Yes please more moving to Italy content. Regarding the North vs South, I also hear some parts of the South have horrible healthcare (specifically Calabria).
What about North vs South Italy and young families... Schools (public vs private), extracurricular activities for kids, the general local sentiment on expats.
The "generally you do have higher wages in the north" is quite a risky claim to make. We do have national contracts and they are the same North and South, they don't take in consideration that the costs of living is higher in the north. So if you're going to work in big companies or the industry, you may have a better living standard in the South. But things are worse in the small business in the South, where many work with shady contracts and work rules.
I'm dual citizen I've been all over Italy not to your extent though. Can you elaborate on your last sentence saying" you may draw unwanted attention to yourself"
I am a dual citizen. And my husband and I are looking to buy a vacation place we have been researching for a long time. Do you know if expat communities are more expensive or if those areas are they in the touristy areas which we’re trying to avoid
No. I started watching Rafi because he lived in Italy and my interest is in Italy. Then he moved and although I still watch him, my interest is not in Portugal. Maybe I'll visit but not at this time.
The bitter truth is since 1861 when Savoia family conquered and carried out colonization of South Italy, wichever Italian government has made high struggles to keep South in poverty, and out of economic growth. As proud sicilian I regret Two Sicilies Kindom!!!
COMO : x) Como è in Lombardia . La Lombardia è uno dei motori economici d'Europa . x) Como è a 5 minuti di auto dal canton Ticino ( Svizzera ) perché è confinante , 20 minuti di autostrada da Lugano ( Svizzera ) e 30 minuti di autostrada da Milano . x) Svizzera vuol dire stipendi più alti , molto più alti e , Italia vuol dire costi più bassi rispetto la Svizzera . Quindi abitare in Italia e lavorare in Svizzera conviene . x) Como ha due linee ferroviarie : Trenitalia che prosegue anche in Svizzera e Trenord ( Lombardia ) . x) Sulla parte occidentale del lago di Como c'è la nuova strada dotata di gallerie . Molto scorrevole . Sul ramo orientale c'è la strada che costeggia il lago , la superstrada tutta in galleria molto veloce e la linea ferroviaria che porta fino a Tirano ( Valtellina ) . Valtellina vuol dire anche piste da sci . 5) Da Nord del Lago di Como si può proseguire fino ad arrivare in Val Chiavenna e in Engadina ( Svizzera - St Moritz) , quindi anche in questo caso piste da sci . x) I turisti sul lago non sono fastidiosi , anzi rendono allegra l'atmosfera , altrimenti sono posti molto tranquilli .
Very useful, Rafael. Did you say that retired people are better going to the north of Italy? It would be interesting to hear more of your opinions. Thank you 😊
Hey there @janetlombardi2314 your question made it into episode 291 which was just uploaded, you'll be able to find a response to your comment in the episode:
ruclips.net/video/y6gCLNW6r0k/видео.html&ab_channel=RafaelDiFuria-NotYourAverageGlobetrotter
Yes, please. More moving to Italy 101 or anything Italy. 🇮🇹
This was fabulous, Rafael. I would love to continue this thread on locations and surrounding culture, and cost of living, etc. I too am working on my plan B/ retirement chapter. Thank you for your in-depth topics.
I like comparison videos between Italy and Portugal. Also, perhaps do a video on the different festivals that exist in both countries and possibly around Europe.
Yes I’m interested! Love your videos. Just got back from 1 month in Sicily. And want to return right now!❤
Yes more Italy content please
So great to see you again Rafael! And Italy! Ladies and Gentlemen, The voice!
Yes please. More Italy!
Agree
Grazie mille, Rafael!! Yes, I'd love to hear more about moving to Italy. My dual citizenship application is currently being processed for Italy, so moving there is in my future.
Hi Rafi. Yes, please more Italy content. We just moved to Puglia from the U.S in January. We've been watching and subscribed to your channel for the past three years while we planned our move to Italy for retirement. Lots of informative and helpful content. Grazie mille.
Thank you for this great episode. Yes, more on Italy please!
Mt. Etna, skiing every year! Snow into March.
Yes, more Italy please!
Nice explanation. Thank you Raphael
Enjoyed this episode and I hope you do more on Italy. 😊🇮🇹
More about Italy, please! I'm still in my years-long process of figuring out how to get from America to Italy.
Lv usa I wish I culd
America sucks
As always, very useful informative content, it’s very much appreciated for someone like me who is thinking about buying property and moving to Italy thank you very much for everything you do and everything you post and your channel is fantastic
Yaaaas! More great Italian content! Love it!
Just uploaded a new video and a couple more over the last few weeks 😁
Here’s the latest:
Living in Italy: Beautifully Complicated?
ruclips.net/video/LD1AT7934x0/видео.html
I’m here for the Italy content! 🎉
One big plus of south: fresh mozzarella di bufala-- preferably eaten the SAME day it was made.
Wonderful Rafael . We very much enjoyed this video. I was in contact with you when we were in Braga late last year. Now we have spent nearly 3 months in Umbria. First Orvieto, now currently in Panicale and have so enjoyed it 😊
I do think with the Portugal rental and property explosion probably from D7 and Golden visa, and now Digital nomad visa; that Italy offers a better retirement monthly spend than Portugal. But we are still exploring our options. We also spent a month last year in Puglia and I agree that many elements of Italy South are more run down than Italy central.
Keep the videos coming please.
Great vid! More Italian info, please! 🙏🏼 Also about the South: (not bashing, just good to know) in some cities trash & littering is pretty bad, including on beaches. And you know the US RUclipsr QKatie? (Didn't you interview her?) When she & her husband lived in Puglia, their new car was stolen from their neighborhood. They got another new car & it was stolen too! So yes, Italy's very safe, but there's **some** crime.
Love this, thank you. Moving to Rome this year, please keep posting!
I'd love more Italy content. That's the main reason I follow you. As a dual US/Italian citizen now, I'm finally planning to make the move to Italy (been an expat in other countries for 12 years now), but I can't decide where to go. All of my family live in Sicily, but I just can't do that humid climate and being so geographically isolated. I'm also not really a beach person (I know, ) and prefer the mountains. I work for myself online, so finding employment is not a factor, so I'm leaning toward the north (somewhere within an hour train ride from Milan) because I want to be more connected to good airports and train network. I don't mind a colder climate, but coming from a very dry climate in the US, and living in very humid climates overseas, I have to say that I really hate humidity and prefer somewhere drier. From your experience, any suggestions on whether any places in northern Italy fit that bill? I'm considering Bergamo, Verona, or even Torino. Ideally, I'd like to be between Milan and Venice, but I know the closer you get to Venice, the more humid it gets. Would love your suggestions and/or more videos pertaining to this. Thanks for the great content, as always!
Novara? Varese? Brescia?
Grazie.
Yes please I plan on visiting in December to see where I want to move
Very useful, i am interested, thank You!!!!!
Thanks Rafael, more Italian content is definitely welcome, please.
I would love to hear more about Italy. Thank you for all that you do!
Spot on Rafael about the Southern part.. a lot of young people move out due to low employment... it is more rural and agriculture is still the main work. Lower pay. A lower cost of living is an attraction to retirees..... Less english is used as a second language. Not as much modern style entertainment as the North.
Thanks so much for expanding this n that point, you bring up a very necessary idea about entertainment, something that I barely touched on in this episode.
@@RafaelDiFuria I hear in the South Spanish is mixed with Italian when speaking
@@Mongoose-ct6us Who told you that? Italy has a national language which is Italian and several local languages called dialects. In the south the two main local languages are Sicilian and Neapolitan. These two languages have, compared to Italian, a few words more similar to the Spanish version but they sound even more different than Italian from Spanish. However, Italians usually speak Italian with foreigners and use dialects only among themselves.
@@zaqwsx23 Con Lei parliamo Italiano perche sapiamo que lei e Turista ma tra di noi parliamo Siciliano which is Italian mixed with Spanish and Catalan. This is what they told me during my time in Sicily. Instead of Cattivo Sicilians say Malo like in Spanish.
@@Mongoose-ct6us Sicilian is not Spanish mixed with Catalan. It's a different Romance language with its own dialects. Sicilian dialects are spoken in Sicily, South and Centre of Calabria and south of Apulia. Words like "cattivo" and "malo" (which it's actually "malu" in Sicilian) are from Latin and each Romance language has its own usage of Latin words. Probably Sicilians were simplifying the concept meaning that Spanish has influenced Sicilian like other languages. Spanish took many words from Italian but it's still Spanish.
Great info!!!!
Great video, and I agree! Well done! If you need anything regarding the Siracusa zone of Sicilia this summer, let me know. I will be there!
Very good content, nicely presented, and yes please, I would like more😎
I'd love to know more about the politics of all these areas, traditionally at least.
More on this topic please.
Great video again! Thanks.
Yes, please share more content on moving/living in Italy. I'm still working on trying to get my Italian citizenship by descent and hope to move within the next year or two. The process of getting the needed documents is very slow but hopefully it won't be much longer. I totally agree with you about the pizza, too. I've been to Sicily and also to Venice and the pizza I had in Venice was superb; best I've ever had!
Thank you for the videos. Please say more about Italy 😀
Great content. This is such an important video for me. I’m retiring to Italy in 5 years and I’m looking to take advantage of the 7% tax credits available if I move to a town in the central or southern provinces.
Great episode. A series would be great!
Make an episode about Abruzzo, food, culture, work, cost for buying a house, etc, thank you
Great episode Rafael. My heart will always be in Italy. 🇮🇹 We’ve considered retiring in PT from US only in past 3-4 years. What favors PT over IT has been cost of living. Given current real estate ‘rat race’ in PT, I don’t know if PT (Braga/Porto or Lisbon area or Algarve) will be ‘worthwhile’ over familiar locations in IT. Hence, always keeping Italy as our ‘Plan B.’ So life style comparisons PT-IT by you are always appreciated. 🙏🏻 BTW-do they have colomba in PT? 🕊️ 🤔 Buona Pasqua.
LOL! You must really be affected by the cold! We just spent our first full winter in Bolzano, and I didn't find it particularly cold. It was about the same as Stuttgart. Wearing wool and fleece is the key. One of the things I love about Bolzano is how well everything is kept. Parks and roads are cleaned every day. The streets are in great shape, and everything is clean. Trains go everywhere, but our airport is very small. To get to a major airport takes a while.
Although I have relatives in Florence as a retired person my choice to purchase a house is in the south, perhaps the region of Molise, or Abruzzo. Grew up in a small town in US, and spent a couple decades as a adult living in small town. Like to know the merchants and they recognize you as a repeat customer. Would avoid the large and even medium size cities where one is anonymous.
Would love more about central Italy and Abruzzo; we visited Rome and some surrounding towns in Campania and Pescara and a few towns/villages in Abruzzo. Love these areas!
In the North, in the Alps, of course the weather is cold. In the sub-alpine area and the main plains, pianura Padana, it's not very cold but it is brutally humid, and that is worse than freezing cold.
Yeah but even below the alps you can still get freezing weather in the winter and then the humidity on top makes it even worse. But even then I’ve expierenced quite a bit of humidity in the alps both in hotter and cooler weather.
When is Rafael moving to pescara and enjoy the arrosticini? 😊
Yes please more moving to Italy content. Regarding the North vs South, I also hear some parts of the South have horrible healthcare (specifically Calabria).
What about North vs South Italy and young families... Schools (public vs private), extracurricular activities for kids, the general local sentiment on expats.
going to school in rimini:) (east central)
What about Torino and Piemonte?? Why nobody mentions Piemonte and Turin?
The "generally you do have higher wages in the north" is quite a risky claim to make.
We do have national contracts and they are the same North and South, they don't take in consideration that the costs of living is higher in the north. So if you're going to work in big companies or the industry, you may have a better living standard in the South.
But things are worse in the small business in the South, where many work with shady contracts and work rules.
I'm dual citizen I've been all over Italy not to your extent though. Can you elaborate on your last sentence saying" you may draw unwanted attention to yourself"
I am a dual citizen. And my husband and I are looking to buy a vacation place we have been researching for a long time. Do you know if expat communities are more expensive or if those areas are they in the touristy areas which we’re trying to avoid
Just based on a few words from your question unfortunately my answer would be
Expat community = overpriced market
Vacation home = not low cost
More italian living content pls😅
More Portugal 😜
No. I started watching Rafi because he lived in Italy and my interest is in Italy. Then he moved and although I still watch him, my interest is not in Portugal. Maybe I'll visit but not at this time.
The bitter truth is since 1861 when Savoia family conquered and carried out colonization of South Italy, wichever Italian government has made high struggles to keep South in poverty, and out of economic growth. As proud sicilian I regret Two Sicilies Kindom!!!
COMO : x) Como è in Lombardia . La Lombardia è uno dei motori economici d'Europa . x) Como è a 5 minuti di auto dal canton Ticino ( Svizzera ) perché è confinante , 20 minuti di autostrada da Lugano ( Svizzera ) e 30 minuti di autostrada da Milano . x) Svizzera vuol dire stipendi più alti , molto più alti e , Italia vuol dire costi più bassi rispetto la Svizzera . Quindi abitare in Italia e lavorare in Svizzera conviene . x) Como ha due linee ferroviarie : Trenitalia che prosegue anche in Svizzera e Trenord ( Lombardia ) . x) Sulla parte occidentale del lago di Como c'è la nuova strada dotata di gallerie . Molto scorrevole . Sul ramo orientale c'è la strada che costeggia il lago , la superstrada tutta in galleria molto veloce e la linea ferroviaria che porta fino a Tirano ( Valtellina ) . Valtellina vuol dire anche piste da sci . 5) Da Nord del Lago di Como si può proseguire fino ad arrivare in Val Chiavenna e in Engadina ( Svizzera - St Moritz) , quindi anche in questo caso piste da sci . x) I turisti sul lago non sono fastidiosi , anzi rendono allegra l'atmosfera , altrimenti sono posti molto tranquilli .
Bologna e dintorni sono nel nord .
I lived in both Italy and Portugal. I'm not a fan of either country.
Ce ne faremo una ragione
Who cares?
the north is incredibly dull and boring, it's really an injustice of history that it ended up gaining the upper hand economically
Bologna in Emilia-Romagna IS part of Northern Italy.