Other than the obvious challenges of moving to a new place, moving to Europe and moreso Italy has some aspects that I didn’t think I’d experience.
The way of life is their art, it is their culture, and in many ways it is their greatest export - or at least an extension of it. A Professor said that shoes and watches are still status symbols to this day because of the importance they had in periods where your mother or family could make your clothes, even nice ones, with relative skill. To craft a shoe or a watch takes time, precision, machines, and skills beyond what most possess. Finally, shoes and a watch to me, represent freedom. WIth them you could walk for hours, and know what time it is without a cumbersome clocktower - tracking paths and logging progress from one village to a next - without a horse!
My question is this, in an environment that makes a great deal of technological advantages flat, and communication is relatively simple - what is the defining factor of wealth or freedom?
