Living Abroad in Italy

by John Moretti

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Imagine yourself living in Italy. You head home to enjoy a glass of Chianti and a heaping plate of pasta. You know the locals and speak Italian with ease. You show visiting friends around with the confidence of one who belongs. Author John Moretti shows you how to make your dream take shape. He left his life as a small-town journalist in Vermont to make a home abroad in Italy. While some give up—daunted by the financial, bureaucratic, and decision-making issues that accompany a move so extraordinary—you'll be led step-by-step through the information you need on visas, money, jobs, housing, safety, language, culture, and history. John has done the research and made the mistakes—so you don't have to. There's a place that matches your budget, needs, and dreams: perhaps it's an apartment in the enchanting city of Rome, a villa in the snowy slopes of Piedmont, or a picturesque cottage in rural Veneto. So make it happen. With Living Abroad in Italy, it's easier than you think.

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Average Customer Review: 1 out of 5 stars

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 stars

is ANYTHING accurate in this book? , 2008-01-04
After casually flipping through this book for only ten minutes, I found it loaded with inaccurate assertions about easily verifiable information, leading me sometimes to wonder whether the author has ever even BEEN to Italy, let alone lived there. Naturally this casts doubt on the credibility of the less easily verifiable assertions it contains as well.

It is absolutely false, for example, that you can obtain Italian citizenship simply "if you have an Italian grandfather and you were born after 1947" (66); I myself meet both these criteria, yet am totally ineligible. Anyone can find the correct requirements, which are much more complex, on the website of the Italian Embassy--for free. The alleged requirements for obtaining a student visa ("relatively easily obtained," 67), and for opening a bank account in Italy ("the process is easy," 108), are similarly oversimplistic and misleading.

Perhaps the most absurd is the author's claim about weather in Rome: "The most you'll need to wear in winter is a lightweight jacket" (162). Any unfortunate expats who rely on this misinformation, shivering in Rome in their "lightweight jackets" as the temperatures frequently plummet into the 30's, may ironically find the one good use for this book, as they might wish to burn it in order to keep warm.

35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 stars

Not worth it!, 2006-03-07
My husband and I live part-time in Italy and found a great deal of erroneous information in this book. We buy most books of this sort that are published on the off chance we will learn something new. However, the problems we found in this book make it difficult to trust any of the information it contains.

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