milan life/italian job
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- Drno
once again hows life in italy,
i want to know the cost of eating (i'm a future student), getting around,
is the nightlife any good, i havent dance in ages,
and off course, are milanese people friendly?
also is it easy to find a job?
- Fariska0
Did you sent me a mail, some weeks ago?
I answered at the same question
- tkmeister0
he's stalking you, fariska!
- infoaturp0
italy is nice. i spent a year there. quit my job designing web sites, took all my savings and moved to milan with my girlfriend. pretty risky at the age of 28, but not as risky as when i'm 40 :)
anyway, cost of living is relatively the same. a tiny bit more expensive because of the euro being a bit stronger. but some things like drinking is cheaper, by a couple of dollars. grocery shopping is really good. a couple dollars cheaper too per item. but then everything is is 25% more pricier because of the euro.
if you're a designer, assuming you are, italy is a great place to go to be inpired with art. the stereotype is true, italians really know how to enjoy life. they work to live, while we live to work. hahaha, so in other words, i came back lazy, but super inspired in art.
- tkmeister0
they work to live, while we live to work.
infoaturp
(Jul 22 05, 07:15)that is so true. i spent 5 months in italy as a student and it was just amazing to be exposed to art, architecture and design over there. but the most important thing i've learned from the exeprience was to celebrate life. hope you'll have amazing time there.
- zaven0
... and we eat allot of pizza, spaghetti and play mandolino....
- Kiko0
dude! Milan is brillinat. I worked there for 2 years till 3 months ago before I cambe back here to London and I tell you I miss it. The beaurocracy is crap, and everyone wants to think they are some footballer that is untouchable, howver. I miss the calmness, the good night life the late bars the good food, and yes its cheap!!
Lucky you!
- CaP0
ha ha ha ha!!! i knew you were italian...
but man, that joke makes sense if you've lived there... it's a good one, though.
- piers0
Italy is excellent. I lived and woked there for three years. Would highly recomend it. Made enought to live a reasonable life and pay off some of my student/graduate loans.
I had a camera for the last year I spent nr Treviso. Many photos and shit here, have a look if you like, will show you one perspective (scroll down on the first page):
http://www.derestricted.com/inde…
- andreasm0
i've been in italy for a year now, and the country is amazing. lived in milan for 3 months but got a job offer in veneto (bassano del grappa) so I left. anyway, it's a cool city - at least around the navillio (sp?), porta genoa and all of those places.
going back to london in september but will always love and appreciate italy as an amazing country.
good luck, you'll love it!!
andreas
- pocho0
Piers...great pics man.
- Fariska0
Everything is true, i don't know about lazyness but i think is correct :-)
btw here the answers:
Cost of eating:
uhmm... i say for a month 100 - 150 euros, with good quality food (when i was student at lunch i used to go at refectory which cost from 3 to 6-7 euros) and in the evening i usually cook @ home.
If you are not alone in home probably is more cheap.Nightilife:
what you want: discos, pubs, discopubs, bar, live music. And there are some places where people meets togheter.
In Milano there are some "social centers" (I can't find a better translation sorry): former factory plants occupied by hippy/punk people. Otherwise the description, they are very interesting places: live music, conferences, debates, or just drinking, there you can find many students.Art/exibitions/events:
Milano hasn't so grat Museums, compared to Rome/Florence/Venice, but there are some interesting works of Leonardo, Caravaggio, Raffaello and Piero della francesca. And you are distant 2 1/2 hours of train from venice, 2 hours from Bologna
2 1/2 from Florence and 4 1/2 From Rome.About exibition Milano si very active, a lot of them all over the year in various places. Remarkables the ones at the Triennale: Design/architecture/Graphic Design related.
Some huge libraries, and one (the Hoeply library) with an entire floor dedicated to art/architecture/graphic design/photoraphy.
Two major events during the year: SMAU, a sort of E3 in autumn and moreover:
"Il salone del Mobile" (in the period of Easter) this exibit is remarkable, not only for the fact that in Milan trade fair there is the exibition of all producers of light and furniture of Italy, but above all because every company involved in furniture organizes in different places around the city their own exibition with free drinks and food (the so called "fuorisalone"). This events lasts for an entire week and usually me and my friend during that week are always drunk.About people:
In milano there are no more original inabithants (i'd say 40% - 50% of the population)
the city is full of people from other parts of italy (like me) or from other countries: a very multicultural city.... and if you came here i will teach you how to play Mandolino, a very important skill here.
(hope i'd be exaustive)
- Fariska0
Ah, job:
is not so hard to find job, but in the design field prepare yourself to a period of "slavery": the companies are not hiring so much and the economy is not growing so, low wages at the begininng and hold on. btw, milano is the city in Italy with the largest number of communication agencies (web, print, advertising etc etc): more than 250.
- Fariska0
Absolutely TRUE!!!