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Fully updated and revised fourth edition. Completely redesigned and printed in colour. The most comprehensive and best-selling book about living in Italy since it was fi rst published in 2001, containing up to twice as much information as some similar books. Essential reading for anyone planning to live or work in Italy, packed with vital information to help readers save time, trouble and money. Interest in living and working in the Italy has never been higher than in recent years, and thousands of foreigners relocate there each year.
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If you're daydreaming on a rainy Sunday afternoon about getting away from it all, buying a ruined Italian palazzo and growing your own olives, read this book first. If Frances Mayes delivers the dream in her `Under the Tuscan Sun' then `Living and Working in Italy' brings you back down to earth with a generous dose of reality. And that's no bad thing. Italy may be a magnet for new-life-in-the-sun seekers, but it's not the easiest country to live in (unless you're Italian) and anyone planning to move there needs a warts-and-all handbook on every aspect of life in Italy, which the author has certainly provided.
There are in-depth chapters on every subject from finding employment to setting up home, from driving on Italian roads to paying Italian taxes, and each has plenty of up-to-date detail on what to expect. It's good to find a book which explains the pitfalls - frequent transport strikes, expensive dentists, terrible television - as well as the pleasures of Italy, and does so in such a clear, informative and no-nonsense format.
Some of the content is so thorough that it takes several sessions to take it all in - the chapter on finance is especially detailed and may make you appreciate your home country's banking system - but you're not going to read this book like a novel. Rather you'd use it as a planner or dip into it at times of crisis, such as your builder going missing and leaving the roof half-tiled.
I've read some of the other books in the `Living and Working' series and this one measures up well. It's comprehensive in its scope and well organised, and provides plenty of tips and contacts. It feels very well researched, as if the writer has spent time living in Italy and not just collated her facts from the internet, and is an essential purchase if you're brave enough to spend some of your life in Italy and not just sit back and dream about it.
There are in-depth chapters on every subject from finding employment to setting up home, from driving on Italian roads to paying Italian taxes, and each has plenty of up-to-date detail on what to expect. It's good to find a book which explains the pitfalls - frequent transport strikes, expensive dentists, terrible television - as well as the pleasures of Italy, and does so in such a clear, informative and no-nonsense format.
Some of the content is so thorough that it takes several sessions to take it all in - the chapter on finance is especially detailed and may make you appreciate your home country's banking system - but you're not going to read this book like a novel. Rather you'd use it as a planner or dip into it at times of crisis, such as your builder going missing and leaving the roof half-tiled.
I've read some of the other books in the `Living and Working' series and this one measures up well. It's comprehensive in its scope and well organised, and provides plenty of tips and contacts. It feels very well researched, as if the writer has spent time living in Italy and not just collated her facts from the internet, and is an essential purchase if you're brave enough to spend some of your life in Italy and not just sit back and dream about it.
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