I'll tell you what its like where I live in America if you tell me what its like where you live in Italy......

Question

.....lol, this is long but here goes :

I live in a place that when you drive down the road you must have patience for the many tractors, you first learn to drive in a big ole' rusty truck (trying not to run into the pond) at probably around 10 years old, theirs generally at least 3 old cars up on cement blocks in everybody's yard, every body goes to granny's house after church on Sunday, every where you look their are horses (or cows, or tobacco, or chickens!), everyone is conservative and pretty religious(bible belt baby), you see confederate flags allot (though not a sign of racism now, though some may think that. But more of a sign of the “old ways” and rednecks). A Saturday consists of a day at the pond listening to the Allman Brothers (who cares if you scare off the fish?) and the night time is drinking Jack Daniels (from a bootlegger no less considering we are a dry county) while playin' all the Rolling Stones songs you know. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and ALWAYS consists of these things: grits, fried apples, biscuits, bacon, sausage, eggs, gravy....and more added on. We run our words together often (i.e. ya'll, you'ns,) and say things like “well I reckon that there is a trout and not no bass“ or ”do what?“ instead of just ”what“. We value morals very deeply though don't always abide by them until we are older (sorry but that's the truth or else their wouldn't be no business for the bootleggers!), and when the fair comes to town everything closes (from businesses to the schools) because everyone goes.....and I guess that's all I'll tell you, even though that doesn't even sum it up.

Answer 1

I'll give you an insight about my life... it might differ from the life of others, but it is quite average... I'm 36, married and with a small child (5 months). I'll describe my life before the child, because it has changed quite a bit after, and it now revolves entirely around him!

So... I get up at 7 each mornig, have a light breakfast (here the most common breakfast is cappuccino with a croissant or tea or caffelatte with cookies) and go to work. I work about 9 km from my house, from 9 to 1 pm, stop 1 hour for lunch (usually a sandwich or some re-heated leftover from dinner), start again at 2 and work till 6 pm. When I finish working I either go to the supermarket to do some grocery shopping, or go home and relax preparing dinner (I love cooking). Most people my age go to the gym or do some sport or other twice a week, but I'm quite lazy!!!

Saturday is a day for fun: my husband and I go shopping, meet with friends, usually go out for dinner, either at a restaurant or at friends, or have friends over for dinner; sometimes we go to the movies or watch a movie at home with our friends.

Sunday is Family day. We clean the house in the morning and then go to our parent's home for lunch or have them over here for a BBQ. I stopped going to church when I was 17....a mix of considering Catholich Church too outdated and having no time for it... In the nice season this was the day when we went for a day tour with our motorbike in the surrounding lakes: a good excuse to also visit some restaurant with local cusine or some local event with wine and food.

We are no party animals, but many people our age like to go dancing or go out to pubs and bars on Saturday night.

We prefer to have long conversation abouth everything and nothing with our friends, relax with a good glass of wine and plan our next vacation!

Answer 2

It is cool in Rome. The pizza is kinda cool.

Answer 3

I live in northern Italy about a 1 hour drive from Milan.  It's really only about 40 Km but the roads are small in some areas and have traffic.  Switzerland is 30 km from my home but it also takes an hour to get there due to driving on the winding roads.

I live in a small town with about 1000 occupants but several people come through for work each day.  Our town has a lake that is a 5 minute walk from my home.  

our town as well as many others in the area hold annual festivals for all sorts of occassions.  In the fall for example there are squash festivals, grape festivals and chestnut festivals.  The bext festivals are the annual carnival festivals where many people make floats and parade down the street sometimes throwing candies etc to the people o the street.  Everybody also comes dressed up.  Here we don't celebrate halloween the American way with going door to door, instead kids and many workers get a couple days off work and school.

It is a very easy life here with many holidays and friendly people.