I’ve only been here a few months, and although I have lots of friends in the South of Italy where my boyfriend lives I’m finding it tough to make friends here in the North - I actually don’t know how much longer I’m going to cope - It’s getting pretty lonely.
Same to me, italians are very “closed”, they don’t look for more than they currently have, kind of don’t want to change their “lifestyle”, way of thinking..
I’m here for 8-9 months and all my “friends” are from worksite, very difficult to have somebody calling you back next day, even if you had a 6-7 hours spent together..
I am an Italian who lived in UK for 8 years, I came back to Milan a year and a half ago and did not make any new Italian friends since. And I lost the ones i had before leaving. I feel like a stranger in my own town. I joined a trekking course for a few months and out of 28 people I could not made a proper friendship with any of them.
I am Italian and most of my family is treacherous. Seriously, I remember as a young child that I did not have the looks to help them, and despite the fact that I was intelligent, classy and nice, I was rejected. When they could not reject me outright, they made up stories about me, totally mind-boggling and totally untrue. Despite many years of “banging my head against a brick wall” trying to be accepted because you really only have one family, I took my therapists advice finally and disowned them. I have had other Italian friends who described a similar situation with their families. I am happy now. I have moved on the found other people to be delightful.
I find Italians very easy to make friends with…
I’ve only been here a few months, and although I have lots of friends in the South of Italy where my boyfriend lives I’m finding it tough to make friends here in the North - I actually don’t know how much longer I’m going to cope - It’s getting pretty lonely.
Same to me, italians are very “closed”, they don’t look for more than they currently have, kind of don’t want to change their “lifestyle”, way of thinking..
I’m here for 8-9 months and all my “friends” are from worksite, very difficult to have somebody calling you back next day, even if you had a 6-7 hours spent together..
I am an Italian who lived in UK for 8 years, I came back to Milan a year and a half ago and did not make any new Italian friends since. And I lost the ones i had before leaving. I feel like a stranger in my own town. I joined a trekking course for a few months and out of 28 people I could not made a proper friendship with any of them.
I am Italian and most of my family is treacherous. Seriously, I remember as a young child that I did not have the looks to help them, and despite the fact that I was intelligent, classy and nice, I was rejected. When they could not reject me outright, they made up stories about me, totally mind-boggling and totally untrue. Despite many years of “banging my head against a brick wall” trying to be accepted because you really only have one family, I took my therapists advice finally and disowned them. I have had other Italian friends who described a similar situation with their families. I am happy now. I have moved on the found other people to be delightful.