Moving To Italy 101 - The North vs The South & Center (Pros and Cons)

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Rafael Di Furia - Not Your Average Globetrotter

Rafael Di Furia - Not Your Average Globetrotter

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@janetlombardi2314
@janetlombardi2314 Жыл бұрын
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 😊
@RafaelDiFuria
@RafaelDiFuria Жыл бұрын
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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2fKdH-EjJulZs0&ab_channel=RafaelDiFuria-NotYourAverageGlobetrotter
@beckymastache
@beckymastache Жыл бұрын
Yes, please. More moving to Italy 101 or anything Italy. 🇮🇹
@mariadigiovanni1168
@mariadigiovanni1168 Жыл бұрын
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.
@johnscott9855
@johnscott9855 11 күн бұрын
Yes. More please! This was great.
@ky4vn
@ky4vn Жыл бұрын
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.
@MaryBartnikowski
@MaryBartnikowski Жыл бұрын
Yes I’m interested! Love your videos. Just got back from 1 month in Sicily. And want to return right now!❤
@rachelreneem
@rachelreneem Жыл бұрын
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.
@R.P.Miller
@R.P.Miller Жыл бұрын
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.
@conradschuman
@conradschuman Жыл бұрын
So great to see you again Rafael! And Italy! Ladies and Gentlemen, The voice!
@johnrandazzo7158
@johnrandazzo7158 Жыл бұрын
Yes more Italy content please
@bethb5915
@bethb5915 Жыл бұрын
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 KZbinr 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.
@GGBSystems
@GGBSystems Жыл бұрын
Yes please. More Italy!
@horseplop9
@horseplop9 Жыл бұрын
Agree
@susanryan3579
@susanryan3579 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great episode. Yes, more on Italy please!
@karentynan9002
@karentynan9002 Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this episode and I hope you do more on Italy. 😊🇮🇹
@ashleywootton-zeh8108
@ashleywootton-zeh8108 Жыл бұрын
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.
@WriterJenOnYT
@WriterJenOnYT Жыл бұрын
More about Italy, please! I'm still in my years-long process of figuring out how to get from America to Italy.
@TravelinRosy2025
@TravelinRosy2025 Жыл бұрын
Lv usa I wish I culd
@TravelinRosy2025
@TravelinRosy2025 Жыл бұрын
America sucks
@AllyNotAbby
@AllyNotAbby Жыл бұрын
I’m here for the Italy content! 🎉
@jondiaz3475
@jondiaz3475 Жыл бұрын
Yes, more Italy please!
@brooksmagruder6662
@brooksmagruder6662 Жыл бұрын
One big plus of south: fresh mozzarella di bufala-- preferably eaten the SAME day it was made.
@DanielCanizzo
@DanielCanizzo Жыл бұрын
Make an episode about Abruzzo, food, culture, work, cost for buying a house, etc, thank you
@horseplop9
@horseplop9 Жыл бұрын
Nice explanation. Thank you Raphael
@N0b0d17
@N0b0d17 Жыл бұрын
Mt. Etna, skiing every year! Snow into March.
@BrynBonino
@BrynBonino Ай бұрын
Hey Rafael, similar to you, I'm American and got my Italian citizenship through my family lineage. I also speak Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese 😉 Though, in contrast, I still live in the U.S. and my heart is calling me to Italy. So I'd love it if you did more content on there.
@angelaberni8873
@angelaberni8873 Ай бұрын
You are not American. Your blood is Italian. You just happened to have been born in USA. I was born in UK but I've never considered myself British. Be proud of your roots folks.
@bobbyloglisci494
@bobbyloglisci494 5 ай бұрын
Yaaaas! More great Italian content! Love it!
@RafaelDiFuria
@RafaelDiFuria 5 ай бұрын
Just uploaded a new video and a couple more over the last few weeks 😁 Here’s the latest: Living in Italy: Beautifully Complicated? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnWUcodtbphnrpI
@r.j.mckenziesullivan2412
@r.j.mckenziesullivan2412 3 ай бұрын
More on this topic please.
@COOLTRIP
@COOLTRIP 6 ай бұрын
Thanks Rafael, more Italian content is definitely welcome, please.
@krismeis8867
@krismeis8867 Жыл бұрын
Love this, thank you. Moving to Rome this year, please keep posting!
@viaggio9
@viaggio9 11 ай бұрын
Grazie.
@DeborahSteinle
@DeborahSteinle Жыл бұрын
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!
@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505
@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505 Жыл бұрын
Novara? Varese? Brescia?
@222drewdrew
@222drewdrew 4 ай бұрын
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
@REASONFORTRUTH
@REASONFORTRUTH Жыл бұрын
Great episode. A series would be great!
@tobemallie3659
@tobemallie3659 Жыл бұрын
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!
@lucfranssen226
@lucfranssen226 3 ай бұрын
Very useful, i am interested, thank You!!!!!
@lucchese20
@lucchese20 Жыл бұрын
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.
@DJPTEXAS
@DJPTEXAS Жыл бұрын
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.
@RafaelDiFuria
@RafaelDiFuria Жыл бұрын
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
@Mongoose-ct6us Жыл бұрын
​@@RafaelDiFuria I hear in the South Spanish is mixed with Italian when speaking
@zaqwsx23
@zaqwsx23 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Mongoose-ct6us
@Mongoose-ct6us Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@zaqwsx23
@zaqwsx23 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@RachelleTuescher
@RachelleTuescher Жыл бұрын
I would love to hear more about Italy. Thank you for all that you do!
@debbiemyers6420
@debbiemyers6420 6 ай бұрын
Yes please I plan on visiting in December to see where I want to move
@jennybento
@jennybento Жыл бұрын
I'd love to know more about the politics of all these areas, traditionally at least.
@CHess-fq7bt
@CHess-fq7bt Жыл бұрын
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!
@mgf503
@mgf503 Жыл бұрын
What about North vs South Italy and young families... Schools (public vs private), extracurricular activities for kids, the general local sentiment on expats.
@majebrennan5668
@majebrennan5668 Жыл бұрын
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.
@jamescurtis6217
@jamescurtis6217 11 ай бұрын
Very good content, nicely presented, and yes please, I would like more😎
@editadesena9892
@editadesena9892 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the videos. Please say more about Italy 😀
@MidnightAspec
@MidnightAspec 6 ай бұрын
Great info!!!!
@itsmetaran
@itsmetaran Жыл бұрын
Great video again! Thanks.
@audreyryan3719
@audreyryan3719 Жыл бұрын
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!
@eleanoreagly4844
@eleanoreagly4844 2 ай бұрын
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.
@X-7-Ripper
@X-7-Ripper Ай бұрын
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.
@fgcbrooklyn
@fgcbrooklyn 7 ай бұрын
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.
@RafaelDiFuria
@RafaelDiFuria 7 ай бұрын
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.
@stephanieh153
@stephanieh153 Жыл бұрын
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).
@santopino756
@santopino756 8 ай бұрын
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.
@hereisnowhy2110
@hereisnowhy2110 Жыл бұрын
When is Rafael moving to pescara and enjoy the arrosticini? 😊
@russmontenero8139
@russmontenero8139 Ай бұрын
I am headed to ITL for 90days beginning in Oct 2025. To avoid loneliness (since I don’t speak ITL) I’m trying to connect to some American expats for social reasons. As an architect I want to fully immerse myself into construction, art and architecture in addition to the vernacular. Any suggestions for English speaking social groups to join? Note I fully expect to learn the language. :)
@djcconsults
@djcconsults 5 ай бұрын
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"
@tracy-marie
@tracy-marie Жыл бұрын
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
@RafaelDiFuria
@RafaelDiFuria Жыл бұрын
Just based on a few words from your question unfortunately my answer would be Expat community = overpriced market Vacation home = not low cost
@Alice-rc2hw
@Alice-rc2hw Жыл бұрын
What about Torino and Piemonte?? Why nobody mentions Piemonte and Turin?
@karthik_silkroads
@karthik_silkroads Жыл бұрын
going to school in rimini:) (east central)
@natureescapes360
@natureescapes360 Жыл бұрын
More italian living content pls😅
@thewebhorse
@thewebhorse Жыл бұрын
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!!!
@angelaberni8873
@angelaberni8873 Ай бұрын
I have an apartment for sale and an ex monastery in the province of Parma.
@playleave7454
@playleave7454 Жыл бұрын
More Portugal 😜
@Haupialani
@Haupialani Жыл бұрын
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.
@alessandro-alex144k
@alessandro-alex144k Жыл бұрын
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 .
@alessandro-alex144k
@alessandro-alex144k Жыл бұрын
Bologna e dintorni sono nel nord .
@teddydavis2339
@teddydavis2339 Жыл бұрын
I lived in both Italy and Portugal. I'm not a fan of either country.
@nicolettastrada5976
@nicolettastrada5976 Жыл бұрын
Ce ne faremo una ragione
@strikedn
@strikedn 11 ай бұрын
Who cares?
@noneofyourbusiness6269
@noneofyourbusiness6269 7 ай бұрын
the north is incredibly dull and boring, it's really an injustice of history that it ended up gaining the upper hand economically
@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505
@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505 Жыл бұрын
Bologna in Emilia-Romagna IS part of Northern Italy.
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