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Anyone in northern Italy?

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miao · 21/12/2006 13:39

or more precisely the Milan/Monza area?

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Ery71 · 08/02/2007 15:32

Taht fantastic. I still haven't been further than Naples. Sicily is on the lost(long one) of places to go. Is it snowy today ?

Monkeytrousers · 08/02/2007 16:00

Yes, it is here. It was very impressive this morning but has reduced to a dirty slush now that makes your feet wet and cold.

Califrau · 08/02/2007 17:15

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Eve · 08/02/2007 17:17

We live in England, I am Irish, Italian husband.

We have a place in Molise, near Campobasso. Will move there eventually.

franca70 · 08/02/2007 18:02

I thought it was foggy round your area califrau...

Califrau · 08/02/2007 18:03

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franca70 · 08/02/2007 18:09

I see (and geography used to be one of may fav subjetcs!!!)

Monkeytrousers · 08/02/2007 19:15

It's very foggy down in the Po basin in Milan too - if my memory serves me well - in winter anyway

franca70 · 08/02/2007 19:34

yes it used to be very foggy, MT, when I was a child sometimes it was difficult to see the building opposite ours from our living room window. It's not as foggy nowadays, at least in milan

Monkeytrousers · 08/02/2007 20:31

I remember driving down the tangenziale at 5 miles an hour wondering if we'd come to the end of the world

franca70 · 08/02/2007 20:38

Lol! I think it still gets pretty bad on the tangenziale...

Ery71 · 08/02/2007 20:56

Fog is still fairly bad, Linate airport has to close down often because of it. Give me piercing cold Scottish air any day!!

franca70 · 08/02/2007 21:52

Yes, the air is filthy in Milan (though I find myself missing it, sometimes). I'm pathetic, I know!

Ery71 · 08/02/2007 22:00

Its your home town so nostalgic feelings are good. I feel like that about scotland sometimes, and I'm from Dundee which is nothing to shout about!

franca70 · 09/02/2007 09:38

Never been to Dundee, but travelled a bit around scotland ages ago, it's absolutely stunning.

Ery71 · 09/02/2007 09:44

I never appreciated it when I lived there, always liked coming back here. Now it appeals much more to me and I'm kind of sorry that dd will miss out on lots of typical things that I took for granted and miss now.

franca70 · 09/02/2007 09:53

I know what you mean, I have the same thing. Sometimes I really struggle with the idea that the children won't grow up in Italy (you know, I had visions of them going to the same school I went to etc etc), other times I think they are going to be "cosmopolitan" !

SSShakeTheChi · 09/02/2007 09:58

at franca missing the filthy air!

Ery71 · 09/02/2007 10:01

They have an advantage that they can experience both worlds which can only be good in the long run I think.

franca70 · 09/02/2007 10:06

Absolutely Ery. Is your dd bilingual then? Is she at school?
I Know SSS, I'm pathetic! I'll be more precise. I miss the smell of warm springy wind (phon , is the name, I think) mixed with really polluted air at rush hour.

Brangelina · 09/02/2007 12:03

OMG, nobody replied for ages so I thought I was the only one. I'm the OP, changed my name because discovered another feline with almost the same name and didn't want people.

I live in Monza, so kind of pre-Brianza, but until last year I lived in Milan which, despite the filthy air and dog poo(Monza's not much better though) I really miss as I lived in a fun area and in comparison Monza's really boring. Mind you, it's probably because I work full time and haven't yet met anyone local.

I don't know where Meda is, I'm afraid, in fact I though it was south of Milan as that's where via Meda in Milan points to . Totally ignorant I know. (slinks away to look on a map). I also came here as a babysitter and ended up staying as it is really easy to find work here if you speak more than one language, unlike the UK. Fog's pretty shite though, although as Franca says it's not the same as a few years ago, when you couldn't see the end of your car bonnet even in central Milan.

Brangelina · 09/02/2007 12:05

didn't want people to get confused (oops)

franca70 · 09/02/2007 12:16

where did you live?? I used to live in a fun area too, but that was pre kids. Although if we'd ever move back I'd probably stick to the same area (deluded emoticon as we could probably afford 10 metri quadri there)

Brangelina · 09/02/2007 12:56

Darsena/Navigli. In fact I moved away as we were living in a 40mq rented bilocale and I couldn't afford to buy anything bigger in the same area or in fact most of Milan (except perhaps Quarto Oggiaro. Yuk!). I ended up buying a much bigger place in nearly central Monza for the same price as a monolocale on Navigli. Mind you it was pure luck as they're quite pricey here too, it just needed a lot of doing up so it was cheap. Having said that I saw an ad for a monolocale da ristrutturare without windows near where I used to leave and they wanted something like 100K euros for it. I don't know if it ever sold...