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I have just subscribed to Italy magazine after buying it for the past year so thought I would join the Forum. My husband and myself have been planning the move to Italy for almost 2 years, with boys at university it takes a while!

Our main concern is being able to find enough work, we do not want to re-enter the rat race once we have moved. I am hopefully going to do the Trinity TEFL course - I have worked alongside ½ûÂþÌìÌà Students for quite a time and feel that Iwould be happy doing this. My husband is in the property business. We are eager to enter the ½ûÂþÌìÌà way of life and have been learning the language for 2 years now at evening classes and also go to a conversation evening every week - this is the most beneficial by a long way!

Any comments on areas etc would be read with interest we particularly like the area around Lucca but are also interested in Appenine region south of Bologna, would also like to see more areas before we decide where to buy. We are definitely more for the country than the cities - so much to go for!
Any ideas would be gratefully welcomed!

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Introduce Yourself - Piacere Conoscerti

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/02/2005 - 08:52

Le Marche, south of Bologna and Abruzzo south of Le Marche are worth a visit. We are also considering TEFL as a possibility but I would prefer to teach IT skills which are also in demand and a subject that I am familiar (over familiar ;) ) with.

I would recommend that you schedule some family holdays in areas that you are interested in *and* that you take some of those holidays in winter as well as summer. You may find that the rigours of a winter with weather driven by the Balkans is not as much to your liking as the summer and it's best to find out ASAP what life is like throughout the whole year.

Personally, I love it. It's good to get back to real summers (hot and long) and real winters (cold, tempestuous, snow above 1,000 feet) which is typical of life in the Apennines.