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Andyp wrote:And welcome to Peter too. Are you an ex-pat or a real Italian?
Peter Gee wrote:Andyp wrote:And welcome to Peter too. Are you an ex-pat or a real Italian?
Interesting distinction
I don't see myself as an "expat" at all, as I live with my (Italian) wife exactly where I want to live, with no hankerings to "return" to anywhere else. The differences between Italy and the UK are far less than you might think, with only the brand names (not, note, the manufacturers) being different in 'our' line of work. I still buy some things from the UK from time to time, but Germany holds far more interest for small tools and tooling, with larger items from local manufacturers here in Italy - still actually being manufactured here, in fact.
Andyp wrote:What about the cost of woodie items in Italy and mail order? Here in France I find just about everything 20-30% more expensive and sometimes even hard to source. Buying secondhand equipment is also near impossible as ebay/leboncoin etc seem to have just large lumps of cast iron or tat.
We love Monty too - watched them all before but now watching them again
We watch most of the foreign series!
an uncompromising man whose love of women lands him in trouble.
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