Any curiosity about life in Italy? How it is really like to live in the northern part of the boot shaped peninsula?

So, I am a father, I love and have cats and dogs, live in a small town in northern Italy, and and I work full time in a field related to software, technology and loosely transportation. I also lived in Rome, one of the biggest northern italy metropolies, and in smaller places like Pisa.

In a previous life I traveled around lots of the world and in my current life I am training for an Ironman.

All of this, while living in the above mentioned country.

Specially for US lemmiers, but also people from other parts of the world, anything you want me to explain, clarify or just answer about all of the above?

  • ShimitarOPAEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    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.