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Forum: Italy

Jan 14th 2018, 3:54 pm

Replies: 56

Moving to Abruzzo

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Posted By Pica

Re: Moving to Abruzzo

We gave up trying to grow our own veg etc. The effort is monumental plus the cost of compost, fertiliser, water, time, storage, preserving etc. And consider the bugs that can decimate all your hard...

Forum: Italy

Jan 14th 2018, 3:15 pm

Replies: 56

Moving to Abruzzo

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Posted By Pica

Re: Moving to Abruzzo

I echo Geordieborn's post, everyone's got some kind of "finger in the pot" BUT.. the Abruzzese's are generally very caring & helpful people- someone once told me that Abruzzo is home to the "sweet...

Forum: Italy

Mar 7th 2017, 2:59 pm

Replies: 56

Moving to Abruzzo

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Posted By Pica

Re: Moving to Abruzzo

In that case I'd expect a goodly number of very reasonably priced properties will be on the market for a quick sale. Maybe a good time to buy? The quake cycle is not easy to forecast.
Most of the...

Forum: Italy

Mar 6th 2017, 12:38 pm

Replies: 56

Moving to Abruzzo

Views: 30,740

Posted By Pica

Re: Moving to Abruzzo

Most wise. The place you said you were looking at is 711 masl, that's rather high up and you would get ALL (or mostly all) of the snow. We are at 485 m asl and get lots. In retrospect we should have...

Forum: Italy

Mar 2nd 2017, 11:21 am

Replies: 56

Moving to Abruzzo

Views: 30,740

Posted By Pica

Re: Moving to Abruzzo

Hi jadehorse1. We've lived in Abruzzo for almost 6 and a half years. We're both retired. We bought a house that just needed some relatively minor tweaking. Like Serrano we haven't regretted moving...

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