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?
In the big city nearby, not that bad. There is a very efficient subway, but too small for the city, and an extensive network of busses.
Tickets are 2€ for 1 hour, with some 40-60€ euro monthly cards, depending if you have discounts.
Outside the city less good, there are suburban busses and train lines, but efficiency is not great. And are much more expensive.
If you need to travel across cities there are busses and trains, often running late but overall quite cheap.
My daughter take the train to go a few towns away for school every day, like 20min each way, the annual students card cost 600€ but covers a pretty wide area outside the big city.