Aosta Valley Autonomus Region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aosta_Valley

by Phithagoras • 5 years ago

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adv0r• 5 years ago

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)

davidw• 5 years ago

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...

gattilorenz• 5 years ago

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

runjake3• 5 years ago

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.

bobthepanda• 5 years ago

There is an analogue that exist in the US; the Native American reservations.

Most Americans would prefer not to think about them too much.

kgwgk2• 5 years ago

You have autonomous states, [edited out: A mild oath of exasperation, annoyance, frustration, anger, or surprise]. And Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

mmarq4• 5 years ago

Autonomous regions (regioni a statuto speciale) have much less prerogatives than American states. They receive more transfers from the central government and can legislate on some limited matters.

Imagine Kentucky receiving twice the fiscal transfers of Ohio and being able to legislate on fishing and museums, while Ohio can’t. That’s the gist of it.

giuliomagnifico• 5 years ago

Ahah I was expecting more hype in see an article about Molise =)

cwwc• 5 years ago

Some cool spots here for sure.. and interesting geopolotics: https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-alpine-border-melts-and-...

Stevvo• 5 years ago

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• 5 years ago

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....

a_chris• 5 years ago

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• 5 years ago

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.

mmarq4• 5 years ago

Northern Europe, as in the place where people can’t cook, starts a few kilometres north of Modena.

;)

Lucasoato• 5 years ago

Hold my pearà!

bogomipz• 5 years ago

For food, off the top of my head there is the famous Fontina cheese, Carbonade Valdostana – a delicious beef stew, Vapelenentse soup and of course Fonduta. And for sweets there is tegole. Aosta also has great viticulture. It has Europe's highest vineyards and a wonderful indigenous grape called Prie Blanc as well as wonderful petit rouge is grown there. Aosta wines are often spectacular and worth seeking out. Besides this there is amazing scenery and great skiing close by.

dougmwne2• 5 years ago

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.

apignotti2• 5 years ago

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.

R0b0t1• 5 years ago

I asked parent's question to an Italian and got basically the same thing but with the rider that tech jobs in Italy are few and far between and generally not desirable. Can you comment on that?

Maybe parent was hoping for a visa surfing situation, I dunno.

throwaway90090• 5 years ago

Italy is a very nice country that offers a high quality of life, but if you naively show up there you will quickly find out why literal millions of young educated Italians are emgirating all over Europe: there are no jobs. By all means, if you manage to land a gig there, enjoy it.

As the other poster said, you also need to learn the language, and sometimes (if you really want to integrate and also depending on the region) the local dialect. (Note that the 'dialect' can be, like, French in the case of Aosta)

dfadsadsf• 5 years ago

You can work remotely - could be sweet to work for Meta or other FAANG and live in Italy. Jobs are portable now.

fbn79• 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogne_case

1_player• 5 years ago

There's more to Valle D'Aosta than a random murder, even though it's been exploited so much by the Italian media for so long everybody still knows about it.

davide_benato• 5 years ago

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.

ebruchez• 5 years ago

I come from the other side of the mountains in Switzerland. Aosta is an occasional destination people on that side. There is great local food, a cute town, and of course the beautiful scenery.

Aosta Valley Autonomus Region

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