MN Little Italy 17

[Rosa]

Starting schools, North vs South and books ...ci siamo !

I also would go for A (and I go against the grain here) as quietness makes me uneasy.

Put damp cloth on her, i guess you are already doing it...

franca you are like me 5 years ago! i think i have been britified now.

Oh dear pippi, poor dd1.
I'd ring your out of hrs doctor.

Suburban quietness makes me uneasy too.
(no chance here, the usual helicopter, ambulance, police car noises/sirens keep us company in the evening - the other night had to shout at some guys behind my garden to stop talking so loudly about the drugs they were buying, told them "can you go and do your business somewhere else!")

Is Geneva like Paris, where everybody lives in flats? 15 minutes is nothing is true, but psychologically you would feel in the deep burbs.

Masseuse, it's time to dig out your European self again . You might make friends with the neighbours or meet mamme simpatiche at the park. It can be possible, trust me .

franca i met a very very milanese girl (I am sure della milano bene!) in geneva who told me the area where apartment a is is too boring for her as it's all old posh swiss people and the 'burbs are much more laid back and fun!

nhs direct? or trip to a&E? how long has she had fever? we spent the weekend with aches and pains and low fever, so something is doing the rounds..

I wouldn't think of geneva as a very noisy, incasinata city, no?

Lol!
Here I can hear a lot of human noises, which doesn't bother me (no load arguments so far), but no traffic, which would. In our old house when I go back now the silence is deafening

dp says he would take dd to a&e if she still ahd 40 after calpol. i would wait, but he is not the anxious type, so maybe?

area A sounds dull...is there a more normal area where people with kids live? are they in area b?

I was only really in Geneva once and lots of times at the airport ....Used to buy chocolate and take it back in tons to Italy !
It was all very clean if I remember rightly ( Geneva not the chocolate !)

Oh well, that changes things Masseuse.
It's difficult to pick up a place if you completely ignore its "sociological aspects'

I'd want a family friendly area, but not too much family friendly iyswim... ... also I'd like it mixed.

yes pippi let us know. that's a high fever esp if stuff doesn't bring it down...

geneva is really a collection of small villages, only about 2 square kms can be considered "town"... this apartmnet is very parisian. i can't understand why i don't love it as i spent ages aspiring to get something similar in london (ie mansion block flat...). but apartment b is very similar to where we live now only bigger and with garden...

is area B more like a village? agree with franca, with families, but not too many and not too posh either.

You simply can't turn your back to a parisian like flat !

If your heart is set on b go for b though...

I am sponging and she is without blanket but she is complaining she is cold. Down to 38.8 now.
Dh went to a friend to get it - I am so used to being on my own that didn't think of friends first. What an idiot!

The way you describe it I'd go for A too.
But you should go with what feel right for you. Imagine the way you want to live in G.

I am in a B place and love it. However if I could afford the same size house I'd def be in the centre.

people with kids live in villages and that's a no no no for me, i'd hit the bottle in record time.

i think part of the reason why we should go for apart A is that we don't know how life is going to pan out- if and where i'll be working, where dds are going to school etc...so it makes sense to be as central as possible... but otoh... the sweet flat with garden... aaarrghh

javier have you watched the wire? you'd love it

Rosa !!! Italian chocolate is way better the swiss one (Novi chocolate fan here )

Poor big Pippi, hope you can track down some neurofen, it has worked for us when paracetamol didn't.

A friend of ours lived in Geneva, he got fined once for putting some paper in his rubbish rather than recycling.

than.

No, def not the villages. They sound idyllic, children walking to school etc, but you ar right, I'd become an alcoholic in 2 days flat.

Oh pippi, glad to hear it's gone down a little bit. I hope the nurofen works, poor dd1

milanese cousin of best friend lives in geneva with 2 children. want me to ask?

boring old people are NO NO NO, would you ive in one of those in italy?

Would it be possibl to wait til you know about the school? Maybe therre is a house C waiting out there for you.....

Following your advise masseuse, I bought the first series of the wire on amazon