Aosta Valley Autonomus Region (opens in new tab)

My first thought when seeing this was "E allora?!"

Italy's regions are pretty interesting in their linguistic and cultural variety, I guess. The broad range of languages spoken is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy#/media/File...

Because it's interesting. Evidently, others agree otherwise it would not have been upvoted to the front page.

Perhaps, it's because a large portion of the HN audience is in America, where autonomous regions are more or less alien to our understanding?

Edit: Puerto Rico, the Native American reservations and a bunch of islands. I'm ready for vacation, folks. Thanks for the corrections. This article is still neat, though.

> Trentino Alto-Adige

An autonomous region that only contains two small autonomous provinces (the only two autonomous provinces of Italy), with big differences between the two

Ahah I was expecting more hype in see an article about Molise =)

For food, off the top of my head there is the famous Fontina cheese, Carbonade Valdostana – a delicious beef stew, Vapelenentse soup and of course Fonduta. And for sweets there is tegole. Aosta also has great viticulture. It has Europe's highest vineyards and a wonderful indigenous grape called Prie Blanc as well as wonderful petit rouge is grown there. Aosta wines are often spectacular and worth seeking out. Besides this there is amazing scenery and great skiing close by.

I guess it really depends on your tastes, I have a couple friends who moved there because they loved the mountains and nature, and got jobs pretty easily (in IT and in Healthcare).

I think food is quite nice too, but obviously it's completely personal.

Northern Europe, as in the place where people can’t cook, starts a few kilometres north of Modena.

;)

Italy is a very nice country that offers a high quality of life, but if you naively show up there you will quickly find out why literal millions of young educated Italians are emgirating all over Europe: there are no jobs. By all means, if you manage to land a gig there, enjoy it.

As the other poster said, you also need to learn the language, and sometimes (if you really want to integrate and also depending on the region) the local dialect. (Note that the 'dialect' can be, like, French in the case of Aosta)

Italian here, living abroad. If you plan to move, you'll need to learn the language unfortunately. I think the average English knowledge of the population has significantly improved over the last ~10 years, but dealing with bureaucracy (with its own special/weird language) still requires some level of understanding of written Italian.

In terms of quality-of-life I'd recommend Tuscany, but as an expat Milan might be the best choice. Good luck.

I come from the other side of the mountains in Switzerland. Aosta is an occasional destination people on that side. There is great local food, a cute town, and of course the beautiful scenery.

There's more to Valle D'Aosta than a random murder, even though it's been exploited so much by the Italian media for so long everybody still knows about it.