I have the same experience. 5he worst ones are the cheap ones from aliexress. I think some of them generate lots of interference maybe by sending energy consumption updates too often

In the big city nearby, not that bad. There is a very efficient subway, but too small for the city, and an extensive network of busses.

Tickets are 2€ for 1 hour, with some 40-60€ euro monthly cards, depending if you have discounts.

Outside the city less good, there are suburban busses and train lines, but efficiency is not great. And are much more expensive.

If you need to travel across cities there are busses and trains, often running late but overall quite cheap.

My daughter take the train to go a few towns away for school every day, like 20min each way, the annual students card cost 600€ but covers a pretty wide area outside the big city.

Happy to share, privately, a track of the itinerary if you ping me.

It’s a bit more complex than that.

We celebrate the 25th of April as Freedom Day, we don’t celebrate killing people even if they where dictators. Its bad taste.

Also, it seems that more then half of italy still like Mussolini and his legacy so.

Also, north Italy was also the place where the Repubblica di Saló, or the last fascist strongold, was located. So I guess it’s not a matter of north and south, rather of fascists and non fascists, which where both equally shared among the country.

So no commemoration, and a bit of second thoughts also on freedom day given how many new fascists ww have. Mind me, they are also pretty ignorant of their own history, so… Go figure.

Yes! Cross country skying was the word.

Too difficult for my skills… But yes, it’s the best. Also very dangerous around here as the risk of avalanches can be really high.

Yes, and i do actually do that gesture…

You are welcome, thank you for your question!

I love the places around Val Chisone, Val Pellice and Valli di Lanzo. A bit less renown, but nonetheless beautiful Check out the Rifugio Lago Verde near Prali for example…

I also like Rifugio Città di Ciriè at the Pian della Mussa. You can reach it by car in summer, but you can sleep there and do lots of hikes. For example, you can hike to the top of the Ciamarella, which is a 3900m top. There is a small (highly melting) glacier to cross, but it’s really just an hike. No crevasses. The main difficulty is the altitude.

Also, there is a hiking loop i just love in the valley of Prali (inside Val Germanasca, inside Val Chisone) you can actually hike the entire valley starting from Gigo di Prali all around the mountains on the north-east side. You hike up to 2900m first, passing Rifugio LAgo Verde, then following ancient military roads, keep at around 2000-2500m for over 20km until Rocca Bianca, passing the beautiful basin of the 13 lakes on the way. Overall the entire loop is 35km. When i was 25 i did it in 11/12 hours. LAst summer when i was training for a few trail runs, i did it in a about 5h 30min.

Sorry… Not hiring… :)

But DevOps are needed, and I guess you could find a job… Who knows

Now I live in Piedmont. Local food is not really an highlight I guess.

“Bagna caoda” is an anchovy and garlic dip eaten with fresh vegetables. Meh.

“Fritto misto” is a mixed platter of fried everything, from liver to vegetables. Meh.

“Albese” is raw minced meat with olive oil and parmesan, this is actually pretty good.

“Vitello tonnato” is sliced beef, cooked, with a sauce tuna based, kind like Mayo but with tuna, this is also pretty good…

In Piedmont, there is also a very famous local race of cows called “fassona”, the meat if pretty great, specially steaks.

But if you like wine, well, search Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera, Nebbiolo… and also “Erbaluce” di Chivasso. Piedmont is great on wines. Barolo is kind of the king of wines… My father has a few very old bottles still. We opened a bottle from the year i was born, when i turned 40. And it was amazing… (other bottles of the same age where meh, so it’s hit and miss, but still 40 years???)

Personally I don’t, but indeed it’s quite absurd. Like a cheeseburger with a donut inside probably…

Anyway yes, expect to be made fun of and yelled if you order one.

Nope! None of my kids got sky lessons from school. We took them to the slopes to get lessons tough.

None of them currently lime skying too much actually. My wife does, but not the sky with the slopes, what we call “scialpinismo” where you put skins under the sky and go also up without lifts

Macine! Yeah they are nice with milk, but recently the recepy changed a bit and they don’t taste as good… Enshittification I guess

We have euros of course, and I am paid in euros as well. Wages are kind of low… Compared to germany Switzerland and even france, we make less buks for the same job.

But cost of living is also less, so overall… We are still poorer than many other Europeans… But life is still expensive. We make a good income, and free education, free healthcare and such amnenitoes do compensate.

Retirement is contribution based, so the more you work, the more you save in your retirement (state funded us company fundrd plus yourself funded). You cannot retire before 68 (maybe 70 nowadays) and usually need 40y of work, or maybe 45 nowadays.

Of you are a foreigner, I guess you need your retirement from whatever country you come from.

Anyway you can live with some 25k euros gross per year, but I recommend 50k or more at least. We are above that, but also have two kids four dogs two cars and a nice house (… In the woods)

I live 30min from the Alps, but still at 300m elevation. We get cold winters, a few weeks of freezing as minimums goes, but rarely stays freezing at noon. We get once or maybe twice a few cm of snow per year (last winter, zero).

Summers are pretty hot and humid (32-38°C, with minimums sometime above 30). Its definitely getting hotter tough, two years ago I installed AC units on the bedrooms, and we now use them a few nights in summertime.

Adding to that, for example yesterday morning we had a low of -2°C, and a high of almost 18°C in the same day…

My house is an independent almost 100 years old building, and i need about 4ton of wood pellets to heat the house from 1 october to 1 may, more or less.

Guess what? Idon’t drink coffe! And they have not yet cancelled my citizenship…

My wife like Kimbo coffee. Using a moka of course…

Still mafia (think of the term as a plural actually) is very well present. Just invisible, as it’s now even in the south, albeit less invisible.

Absolutely… I know a few celiacs, and while you need to call ahead and ask if the place is good for gluten intollerants, it’s nowadays easy to find a good place to eat.

Did they have white stars on them? Maybe the Bucaneve from Doria? https://www.doria.it/prodotti-dolci/bucaneve

I find people very welcoming and also conservative, at least since i moved to this small town. I have been welcomed a lot, and become friend with the major and other prominent people. I am white and italian, so that helps. But still i am not one of the locals, after ten years. Actually they have two different words for people who have grandparents born in this very town, and anybody who just live here even since 20 years… It’s kind of funny, but sad.

But in general, everybody is helping and very open to chat and exchange opinions, if you are willing to put yourself in the game, you are welcome to play. Actually, it can be difficult to pull out after you volunteered for any kind of work or help for local events ans such… :)

In general, they try to “fit you in” with parents, where you are from and who you are friend with. Political color, race or ideals don’t really count, “belonging” is more important. After all, on a pizza and a good wine, we are all the same… But you need to like the local wine or it’s not good starting point…