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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-03 11:48 PM
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Moving to Rome (Italy) in 6 months.....
Any suggestions?
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-03 11:50 PM
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1. You lucky bastard
I was there over Thanksgiving for a week. Do you know what neighborhood you'll be living in? I can help you with churches, outdoor markets and restaurants that way. Porta Portese is a large flea market that happens on Sundays-it is an experience not to be missed.
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 12:28 AM
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5. Via Cassia at about 5km!
I've been to Porta Portese Market. Caught a guy trying to pick my pocket! (Nabbed his hand in the act!) Only spent 3 days in the city up to now. Moving 'cause wife's business....
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-03 11:50 PM
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2. Study Italian, if you don't speak it already
It will make your life SO much easier.

There are Americans who have lived in Japan for decades and don't speak Japanese, but they never venture outside the foreigners' ghetto, and are in fact, kind of scared to.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-03 11:52 PM
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4. Lydia's right-a lot of Romans speak Italian-especially the younger ones
but if you go anywhere rural, it is difficult to communicate without knowing the language. My mother-in-law is Italian and speaks broken English so I could at least passably get around. But I would learn the language if I lived there.
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 12:30 AM
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6. Io parlo Italiano, molte male!
I speak Italian, very badly! I used to live in Sicily. I should get by.
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-26-03 11:52 PM
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3. yeah, plenty of them
PM me and when my husband gets back next week, e-mail him. He lived in Rome for 20 years and goes back three or four times a year.


Cher
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 12:30 AM
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7. That's the ticket!
Thanks!
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 12:53 AM
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8. Man, you are one lucky b*Istard. I would love to leave this corrupt
country (under Bush*). Don't know much about Rome, but visited Florence. Wow - it's a whole different esperience. The main thing from what I have gatherered in European countries is to "chill out." They aren't like us.
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 12:56 AM
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9. Yup!
Americans live to work.
Italians work to live.
Sez a lot.........
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The Undertaker Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 02:07 AM
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10. Lucky SOB....
take me with you.....I want to go live on Sicily, study Geology, and study Mount Etna!!!
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 02:12 AM
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11. Marriage?
:P
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-03 02:23 AM
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12. My youngest son went to college in Florence.. He LOVED it
Edited on Sat Dec-27-03 02:24 AM by SoCalDem
He said that if you had access to American bacon, sugar coated cereals,peanut butter and cheddar cheese, you could live well off the money you could sell it for.. He actually had me sending him boxes of that sort of thing..

When you go to Pompeii, be on the lookout for my new Olumpus 35 mm camera.. Silly kid set it down and it went "missing".. It's a gray silver-ish small camera with a nice zoom lens.. :)

He also said that the best way to see Florence is on a bicycle. :)

Enjoy :)
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