I moved to a flat in central Bergamo where I've been for three years. However this has been a disaster.
While the piazzetta is central and pleasant, it is a building site.
The design blocks the noise of the city, but I don't have a problem with that. It's a city. I expect some noise.
However either Italy has no noise laws, or, they're simply ignored. People smashing down walls, ripping up floors, operating carpentry workshops from their balconies.. it's endless.
Drip water from your balcony and you could be in trouble. However using a pneumatic drill in an apartment for months on end is perfectly fine. This seems a little inconsistent.
I work from home and so I need to know that I can actually do that. I can remain at home and not be forced to leave the building because the noise is intolerable.
So I need to find a semi-detached or detached house. Half of Italians live in flats, but half don't. Where are all the houses?
In reality there are lovely houses on the outskirts of the city but I don't need 350 sqm and a big garden. What I want is the typical "British" suburban house within walking distance of the centre.
In the whole of Lombardy I've managed to locate precisely one of those, which has now been let.
Obviously I'll need to look south. Location not important, the only criteria: semi-detached or detached, less than 1,000 Eur per month, able to have fibre broadband, and walkable to the centre/services (which rules out rural areas),
Where should I be looking?
