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To want to move to Rome

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Ribrabrob · 14/09/2017 23:11

I absolutely adore Rome, would move there in a heartbeat I could. I just love everything about it - the food, the people, the atmosphere, the crazy Italian drivers etc etc

I've been four times now in the space of a year and plan to go again. I've done all the usual touristy things although one of my favourite things to do is sit back with a pizza and people watch, soak it all in.

Aibu to want to move their tomorrow, but a moped and eat pizza for the rest of my days?! Grin talk to me about Rome - things you love, hate, what you've done whilst there.

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Ribrabrob · 14/09/2017 23:12

Oops, meant there not their

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SilverySurfer · 14/09/2017 23:15

Lei parla italiano? Well enough to get a job? If you have no ties here, give it a whirl.

JeReviens · 14/09/2017 23:17

I love Rome. Try to go twice a year. It would be quicker to say what I don't love about it and even that's a challenge! It would have to be the taxi drivers - lots of them will try any way they can think of to rob you blind. Fuckers!

Nuttynoo · 14/09/2017 23:23

Rome isn't great to live in but whatever floats your boat. Try it.

highinthesky · 14/09/2017 23:27

Sound a bit Eat - as in Eat, Pray, Love.

Rome is a lovely holiday destination, but I personally wouldn't want to live there.

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 14/09/2017 23:33

Rome was an amazing holiday... but I think it's like most places. You work and pay bills there and suddenly it's not so amazing!

Tigerlovingall · 14/09/2017 23:39

Google 'au pair jobs in Rome' .
Easy peasy.Smile

PeterBlue · 15/09/2017 00:30

OK, if you want to but my grandad moved from Rome ..... to Croydon. He never went back. Visiting and living there are 2 different things.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 15/09/2017 00:40

Great to visit. Awful to live in ime

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Freyka · 15/09/2017 01:17

Try it. Find any kind of job for few months and go. I love Italy, not only Rome but Bologna, Florence, Sicily. No place is easy to move to and live but it is great to try.

myrtleWilson · 15/09/2017 01:38

Have a read of Rachel Roddy's books/columns/blog @racheleats... She's made a success of it!

MrsTerryPratchett · 15/09/2017 01:49

I lived in Italy and Croydon @PeterBlue. I LOVED it. However, stinking hot in the summer, weird bureaucracy, corrupt, changes government every ten minutes, really sexist and objectifying of women, lots of petty crime (and organised crime), driving is psychotic, if you don't speak Italian (I do) people assume you are a tourist, and being a foreigner anywhere can be wearing.

Have you lived anywhere else before?

Bumbledumb · 15/09/2017 01:57

I lived for almost twenty years in Italy, and I wish I had stayed there.

Great to visit. Awful to live in ime

That's how I feel about most of the UK. I'd rather live in Rome.

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Ribrabrob · 15/09/2017 13:22

People who have lived in Rome, I'd love to hear more from you. What exactly did you like, didn't like etc? Is it easy to make friends?

Interesting about the objectifying of women comment as I always though that women are very well respected in Italy, but perhaps I am wrong?

Don't speak Italian but I am trying to learnt. trying being the key word haha

Thanks all

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ShitOrBust · 15/09/2017 13:28

Wages are low and decent jobs are hard to come by. Learn to speak Italian if you haven't already. There are nicer places to live in Italy.

Mrsdraper1 · 15/09/2017 13:32

Just got home from a holiday in Grado and really missing my dolce vita wine and spaghetti vongole
I would move to Florence or Venice in a heartbeat, just need to meet a rich millionaire who can afford it!

pasturesgreen · 15/09/2017 13:44

I regularly travel to Rome for work, in fact I'm going down on Sunday.

No way on earth I'd actually live there! Fine if you're on holiday or a short visit, but traffic is maniac, public transport inadequate and unreliable, taxi drivers are dubiously honest, petty and not so petty crime is rife...

Don't get me wrong, there are bits of Rome I really love (there's a quaint little frescoed gallery just off Trevi Fountain that's my happy place in Rome), but I wouldn't actively want to live there. If you say Milan, though, now that's different!

Ratonastick · 15/09/2017 14:14

I've lived in Rome and would like to go back. Italian living is very different to England. It's lovely and a great way to live but the relaxed dolce vita style is a bit bloody wearing when you are trying to get a plumber, etc. You definitely need to speak good Italian as English is not as prevalent once you are away from the tourist stuff. But I loved it and would happily do it all again and have a vague retirement plan involving an apartment near Castillo Sant Angelo.

However I think things are tricky in Rome at the moment. Local government is / was split between the national parties and a 5 Star mayor. She is struggling to deal with city problems and there are huge issues with services, maintenance, bins, etc. It's creating a vacuum and decision making has stalled. Work is pretty thin on the ground (good friends are working in jobs that are well below their capabilities and previous roles).

I wouldn't want to put you off because I did it and loved it, but I'd do a bit more practical research if I were you.

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