Hi, I'm new to this site. Got the link from Jessica, Too tall for Italy blog. I look forward to some great female support out here in cyberworld...it can get pretty lonely.

If you get a chance you can hit my blog to learn a bit about my world in Genoa, Italy:
http://www.lmarmstrong66.wordpress.com

Help! I live with my italian mother in law

Nice to meet you Imarm welcome to the forum! how long have you been in italy? whats Genoa like??

Hi Clare, I've been in Genoa for a year now. I've been coming here since 2005 but officially moved here last year after I got married to an Italian. Genoa is nice, but a bit closed. The people here are hard. Not sure how to explain it really. I love it, but I find it hard sometimes because they are not overly friendly like other Italian cities I have visited. I have a few friends but of course they are all expats too!

Where do you live?

Hi and welcome! I have a friend in Genoa who is Italian and fantastic, but she is originally from Rome so maybe that makes her more open. He husband is from Genoa and is lovely, but quieter. Gonna have a look at your blog now...................

time passes.........

Your blog is great, too much to read in one go but I am definately gonna read it all, bit by bit!

Heya

Im in Roma i really like it here! if you ever come for a visit we could meet up

Yay I am so glad you came on board here! Your blog is probably my favorite out of all the Italy blogs! Whenever I need a good laugh I read it

Hi Jess! Good to see you on here! I have to update my blogroll on my site to your new Hey mon. It's funny when I ready your new blog title I was thinking maybe you moved to Jamaica, haha. Oh, but that would have to be Ya mon!

So did anyone watch the news last night and see what happened to Berlosconi? My MIL was cheering! I felt bad for the guy, he looked completely shocked and stunned by it all.

Regardless of wether or not Berlusconi is a bad man, it is not the way to behave and, it will actually only create more sympathy for him, so probably defeating the purpose of the attack. Responding to bad behaviour with bad behaviour is not civilised!
That is my opinion, will get off my soap box now hee hee!

Thx Lizzie,

I have fun writing the blog but sometimes get carried away and write super long ones!

I agree, he may or may not be a bad man but this is not the proper way for a civilized country to be handling it. I don't know all that much about Italian politics but it does seem that Italy has some catching up to do if it wants to stay in the game.

I think sometimes it's like being stuck in the heydey of the 80's where there was lots of money and no one thought about the consequences, but those days are long gone and the people of Italy are starting to realize it, but not fast enough.

I knows hes corrupt in somethings he does but my BF said when other people come to power they just tax us more! they do nothing for the people.

This man has not taxed us hes actually taken a house tax away! when the earthquake happened and people lost there lives and houses, he went there to see the damage he cried and the funnerals and he made damn sure that everyone who lost there houses had new ones built for free! earthquake proof ones and he set a date and made sure it was done on time!

He also did this when one mudslides happened!

So at the end of the day why cant people see the good stuff he is doing now? maybe he is trying to be a better person!? but as people we can rarely see through the things that someone has done in the past and thats a big shame

Hes done some good where he is but still some people hate him!

Thanks for that! I have a few Italian friends here that support him and are quite involved in Politics and I am always careful about what I say. My only comment has been someone must like the guy otherwise why does he keep getting voted back in?

I know he has had a recent scandal with his wife but honestly what politician or famous person hasn't? I don't really care too much about his personal problems as long as he can do his job well.

In Canada, our politicians are just not that enigmatic. Nobody really cares. Only when Trudeau was in power do I vaguely recall his wife Margaret being the lover of Mick Jagger in 1977, and I was just 10 years old!

Anyways, I am sure that Berlosconi has done some good, he's just a target for hard times...even Obama is getting bad press because Americans think he should have turned over the economy by now!

ohhhhhhhh hum
I really think your view of Berlosconi is coloured by the people around u when u r an expat, unless of course your Italian politics, history and language are up-to-date. I don't know enough about him to have a valid opinion. But I do, for e.g. know people who have been working in Abruzzo in the camps and it does not seem a good situation, and I am sure it doesn't feel like a camping holiday. Also when they held that big meeting in Abruzzo I thought it was in bad taste and a real waste of funds. My gut instinct is that Berlusconi is a slime ball...but as u say what politician isn't these days?

And Italy is not stuck in the 80s, it is still in the fifties! U consider it's attitude to women for e.g.

oh, there's a whole can of worms here!

lmarmstrong66 wrote:Hi Jess! Good to see you on here! I have to update my blogroll on my site to your new Hey mon. It's funny when I ready your new blog title I was thinking maybe you moved to Jamaica, haha. Oh, but that would have to be Ya mon!

Haha that was actually my first thought we I found out where we were moving. Don't know if you ever got the show In Living Color in Canada (or on the high seas) but there was a sketch and the dudes always said Hey, Mon! lol.

About ol'Berlu I think he is shady shady. And I am not convinced he is a changed man, far from. But he is like 73 and being assaulted is never ok, no matter who you are. I think Lizzie's right, this will work for him which sucks.

If u look on the expats website they are saying the same sort of thing.....