Living in Rome??

Question

I am moving to Rome for educational and job reasons and wanted to know more about it from people who already live there. Would you reccomend it?? If you have any information on life in Rome I would really appreciate it. Thanks x

Answer 1

they are italian, they speak italian, they are wacky drivers, they like to eat big lunches and small dinners really late, they like to eat gelato, rome is big and very pretty, what you can do is rent a movie on it from blockbuster or hollywood videos or wherever you u rent movies

good luck ive been there once and i thought it was sooooooooooo pretty. have fun bye!

Answer 2

Be prepared for a difficult transition. The first 3 or 4 months are horrible.  It's really difficult to 'live' rather than visit when you don't speak the language.  Just finding a dry cleaner or laundry or parking place can be a nightmare.  

It will help to have people at your job to help you.  Accept that you're moving into a completely different world than you're used to.  That will help.  After about 4 months, it all begins to make sense.

We lived in Rome almost a year and we cannot wait to move permanently.  Living in Rome is a joy, once you realize the streets mostly run in circles, there's not much parking,  the street signs are all about 10 feet off the ground and on the buildings, and, driving is a contact sport.   It also helped that I used to get up and drive into Centro about 7am so I could find my way around and familiarize myself.  It helped a lot.  

Have a great time.  Enjoy the experience.  It's life changing.

Answer 3

I moved to Italy almost over 4 years ago.  you are going to have to get tranformes along with anything else that is 110v. If its 110-220v 50-60h you can just get an adoptor plug. Housing is very costly right now our rent is E900 which equals $1275 because of the exchange rate now. Housing is usually good. They have big houses usually close together with little to no grass. They like to build up so you may have a 3-4 level house they do have apartments . You can bring your dog we have a dog we got him here but many of our friends have brought there dogs from the states. You need to go to the vet. and get some paper work done and shots and certificate of heath usually no earlier then 10 days before the flight and then you need to check with you airline for other stuff. When you get here with your dog you need to get him on frontline the Italian or germany one because they have bad sandflyes and ticks put only dogs seem to get them not people. Then you need to get this msquito collar for the dog because the msquito carry this diesease that is like doggie aids and it will kill your dog if it get bit by a bug carring it but it kills the dog slowly. They do have internet serivce its called ADSL. they have three different companies Telecom which is the phone company for your house phone. and two others suck big time and they just use the Telecom hardware anyway so it does not work well. Most places have ADSL but you need to check it out when you are looking for a place. It also usually takes a while to hook it up it took us almost 6 months. any other questions let me know,