Angel and I are at a crossroads on this adventure of living in Italy. We really have to leave this beautiful apartment, since living next to the neighbors who have no sense of privacy or courtesy is not an option anymore. The landlord cannot do anything to influence them, since all Italian law favors the renter, no matter how they behave.
This is Thursday, 3 January, 2008: I am now going to edit what had been the next original paragraph, because perhaps this original paragraph was misinterpreted. One of our acquaintances Stateside said that he had heard that we are coming back to the States. Since we don't talk to this person by phone and rarely email this person, and have said nothing like this to anyone we do talk to or email, then the source of this rumor can only be a misinterpretation of this post. No decision to return to the States has been made.
We are out looking for another place to live, but that is not easy here in Italy. There is no multiple listing system, follow-up from realtors is unknown. We have found one possibility, through the father of a friend, but that might take 2 or 3 or 4 months to develop.
Neither of us is ready to leave Italy. We have plans already made well into 2008, there are places to go, things to do. We now have a real social life here, friends that we would be sad to leave. But we cannot stay in this apartment. We are stepping off into another adventure.
1 comment:
Wow - those people sound scary. Why did the maid lock the son out of the house? Good for her though- must be hard to stand up to these people. I taught English to the 12 year old daughter of a similar family - after a few weeks (even though they paid handsomely) I quit. They just screamed abuse at eachother all the time - it was scary and I felt sorry for the younger son who was only 6. I'm sure his first word was "vafainculo" (they said it every 3rd word, it seemed...)
In Rome, we have Porta Portese and "Wanted in Rome" which are pretty good for finding apartments. Is there anything similar in Verona?
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