[HN Gopher] Aosta Valley Autonomus Region
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Aosta Valley Autonomus Region
Author : Phithagoras
Score : 49 points
Date : 2021-12-19 22:35 UTC (1 days ago)
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| davide_benato wrote:
| interesting to see this on hn. I grew up there. It's the smallest
| region in Italy with roughly 130k people living there. It's
| always surprising to meet people abroad why come from Aosta. Even
| fellow Italians often tell me I'm the only one they have ever met
| who's from this tiny little region.
| dougmwne wrote:
| Since there isn't much of a topic here to get sidetracked from...
| HN community, has anyone here looked into getting a second home
| or entirely moving to Italy? Any experiences to be shared? I have
| the ability, but wonder if anyone has any success stories or high
| recommendations.
| apignotti wrote:
| Italian here, living abroad. If you plan to move, you'll need
| to learn the language unfortunately. I think the average
| English knowledge of the population has significantly improved
| over the last ~10 years, but dealing with bureaucracy (with its
| own special/weird language) still requires some level of
| understanding of written Italian.
|
| In terms of quality-of-life I'd recommend Tuscany, but as an
| expat Milan might be the best choice. Good luck.
| Stevvo wrote:
| Great views, great skiing, great food. Prices are high and
| economic opportunities low.
|
| Piedmonte is far more affordable with all of the benefits of
| Aosta valley, and the bonus you can work in Turin or even commute
| to Milan.
| whoisburbansky wrote:
| Turns out the city in the state of Georgia is named after this
| region. I don't know much about the city, except that a handful
| of friends from my university days are from it, so I was
| surprised, to say the least, to see this pop up on HN. Haven't
| thought about the city in years. [1]
|
| 1.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdosta,_Georgia#:~:text=Trou....
| fbn79 wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogne_case
| adv0r wrote:
| why is this on hacker news? In italy we do have 5 autonomous
| regions apart from Val D'Aosta (Sardegna, Sicilia, Trentino Alto-
| Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia)
| gattilorenz wrote:
| > Trentino Alto-Adige
|
| An autonomous region that only contains two small autonomous
| provinces (the only two autonomous provinces of Italy), with
| big differences between the two
| davidw wrote:
| My first thought when seeing this was "E allora?!"
|
| Italy's regions are pretty interesting in their linguistic and
| cultural variety, I guess. The broad range of languages spoken
| is fascinating:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy#/media/File...
| runjake wrote:
| Because it's interesting. Evidently, others agree otherwise it
| would not have been upvoted to the front page.
|
| Perhaps, it's because a large portion of the HN audience is in
| America, where autonomous regions are more or less alien to our
| understanding?
|
| Edit: Puerto Rico, the Native American reservations and a bunch
| of islands. I'm ready for vacation, folks. Thanks for the
| corrections. This article is still neat, though.
| kgwgk wrote:
| You have autonomous states, [edited out: A mild oath of
| exasperation, annoyance, frustration, anger, or surprise].
| And Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
| dang wrote:
| Please edit swipes out of your posts to HN. We're trying to
| avoid that kind of thing here.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| atdrummond wrote:
| This strikes me as an unnecessarily antagonistic reply.
| runjake wrote:
| FWIW, I'm the parent he was replying to and I was fine
| with and appreciative of his correction. It seemed the
| appropriate amount of antagonism, given my error.
| kgwgk wrote:
| I was not even trying to be a little antagonistic,
| really. It was mostly surprise given the huge amount of
| autonomy of each "region" in the country.
| bobthepanda wrote:
| There is an analogue that exist in the US; the Native
| American reservations.
|
| Most Americans would prefer not to think about them too much.
| a_chris wrote:
| Aosta Valley is a really bad place to live in: people are not
| friendly, food is not so good compared to other regions and job
| opportunities are very low
| riffraff wrote:
| I guess it really depends on your tastes, I have a couple
| friends who moved there because they loved the mountains and
| nature, and got jobs pretty easily (in IT and in Healthcare).
|
| I think food is quite nice too, but obviously it's completely
| personal.
| cwwc wrote:
| Some cool spots here for sure.. and interesting geopolotics:
| https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-alpine-border-melts-and-...
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