Any advice would be welcome! Especially about getting a work visa, which cities within italy would be the best to live, etc.
Italy - 6 Answers
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Get a passport and learn Italian.
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E-mail information on a visa for Italy can be obtained at visas@itwash.org. To obtain work in Italy it is necessary to obtain both a residence permit and a worker registration card, rather than a visa. The Italian work permit application process must be begun by the company in Italy that hires the worker. The Italian work permit cannot be applied for by either the employee or a recruiting firm or a job agency. Italy as a country is a fun place to live. Do you prefer living in the city or the country side? It might be easier to find a job in the big cities since they a visited often by tourists. I suggest Rome, Venice, Pisa, Florence, and Milan. Italian would be nice to know, but everyone in the big cities speak English so you should be alright. Good luck to you!
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Teach English.
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You might try getting a job with the US gov. there although I'd guess there's a lot of competition for those jobs. You can find a current list of vacancies at: http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/jobsearch.asp?q=&lid=18193&lid=18197&salmin=&salmax=&paygrademin=&paygrademax=&FedEmp=N&sort=rv&vw=d&brd=3876&ss=0&FedPub=Y&SUBMIT1.x=82&SUBMIT1.y=11
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Language will be your main problem. Most employees have to be proficient in Italian and at least two other languages. Mostly English and German, certainly here in the Veneto region. Many resteraunts may require knowledge of as many as six.
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I am an Irishman in Italy for almost 6 years now. I speak Italian fluently. Italy is very beautiful, the food very good (though not as great as people will tell you it is...authentic Chinese is infinitely better), and the architecture spectacular. But, for positive things, I would stop there. The rest really is a collection of idiotic superfluities, egotistical hedonism, shallow thinking, the most expensive yet weakest education system in Europe (I am a teacher in a University here, and without doubt, Italians would beat hands down any contest to find the most politically ignorant people in the Western world), there are endless Mommy's boys everywhere, it's absolutely FILTHY here (rubbish everywhere...the landscape is used as a tipping ground for anything and everything), sacred and globally important buildings have 'Loredana, you're a f**king whore' sprayed in big letters on the side of them, politicians are particularly and spectacularly corrupt, the legal system is a joke (except, it's just not funny), Italians are xenophobic in the extreme, everyone wants to rip you off as soon as they hear that you are not a native Italian, nobody knows how to say please or thank you, and try changing $20 to Euro...even in big cities you will NOT find a place that will do it for you without taking 50% in commission. In short, a nation with no future. Please God help me to get out of here.
