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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    22 hours ago

    We have euros of course, and I am paid in euros as well. Wages are kind of low… Compared to germany Switzerland and even france, we make less buks for the same job.

    But cost of living is also less, so overall… We are still poorer than many other Europeans… But life is still expensive. We make a good income, and free education, free healthcare and such amnenitoes do compensate.

    Retirement is contribution based, so the more you work, the more you save in your retirement (state funded us company fundrd plus yourself funded). You cannot retire before 68 (maybe 70 nowadays) and usually need 40y of work, or maybe 45 nowadays.

    Of you are a foreigner, I guess you need your retirement from whatever country you come from.

    Anyway you can live with some 25k euros gross per year, but I recommend 50k or more at least. We are above that, but also have two kids four dogs two cars and a nice house (… In the woods)