Hello,
My name is Ilene and my husband and I just got approved for dual citizenship with Italy! We have spent time and money (working on this since 2012) and now we are in the home stretch. We actually just sold our home and now getting rid of "stuff" and just waiting to hear from the Italian Consulate that we need to come pick up our Italian Passports! We expect this to happen the early to mid part of 2016.
We plan to move to Parma first and explore the northern region for about 6-months. We choose this area because of the availability of busses and trains and its central location. After 6-months we are trying to find a town similar in the southern region to again, explore. If after a year we decide we want to stay and we can visit our 4 children and 8 grandchildren yearly, (without missing them too much!) then we will have a better idea of where we would want to put down roots. We've been it Italy twice (as tourists) so we are not looking to particularly visit "those" areas again - just explore everything else Italy has to offer.
Any suggestions on southern towns/cities that have good transportation would be appreciated! Thank you.
We have also started a blog:
ouritalianjourney.com to help others with citizenship or just to follow our journey.