This is the second in a series of posts about my experience remodeling an apartment in Florence. The living room as it looked originally I didn't hire an architect. I got some advice from my "Geometra" and then hired some Moroccan guys and attempted to be be a "manager" myself. This meant discussing masonry and electricity in Italian, which I'm not familiar with
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Why I Risked Everything to Buy an Apartment in Florence
A personal essay Not long ago I woke up and was fifty years old, with more than half my life already lived. Divorced, and without kids, essentially alone, I decided to follow my lifelong dream of living in Italy, but to do so, I had to “dare greatly” as Dr. Brené Brown calls it. I’d been in love with the city of Florence since age nineteen when I backpacked around
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