THE NEWS FROM ITALY 2
A few more tidbits from the news:
1. A report came out from the department of finance listing the relative salaries of certain professions in Italy. The lowest paid job in Sicily is a ceramicist. The highest paid in our area is a “notaio,” a sort of super lawyer/business consultant, who makes more than US lawyers. Since we and our guests buy so many ceramics, we feel we are doing our part for a strong Sicilian economy.
2. The most shoplifted item in Italian stores is parmigiano cheese, followed closely by veal fillets. Now how many people do you know who do not like veal parmagiano?
3. Decent shopping comes closer and closer to Sciacca. An IKEA store is being built in Palermo, and one will open on the Catania side of the island by Christmas.
When I think what this could mean for me, I think of all those times I had to look for furniture with little choice other then cheap cheap cheap or incredibly expensive designer stuff. Now that we pretty much have what we want in our home, I also muse about Sicilian society and the young couples who do not have the thousands of dollars to furnish a house before they get married. Most of them have to buy everything at a store like Paolo’s with his store’s high prices. So two new things can happen: first, more couples will get married younger if they can do their own decorating inexpensively, and second, they can have babies earlier because they don’t have to pay off the huge furniture bills from the wedding.
Oh, wait, what am I thinking? That would only happen if young couples paid cash for their apartment’s furniture, and that is nearly unheard of here. No one pays cash or pays installments on time for that matter, and borrowing over the reasonable amount of credit is very common.
4. In case you are keeping track, Palermo lost today to Atalanta and got knocked out of first place by Inter. Palermo still is tied with Rome for second place.
1. A report came out from the department of finance listing the relative salaries of certain professions in Italy. The lowest paid job in Sicily is a ceramicist. The highest paid in our area is a “notaio,” a sort of super lawyer/business consultant, who makes more than US lawyers. Since we and our guests buy so many ceramics, we feel we are doing our part for a strong Sicilian economy.
2. The most shoplifted item in Italian stores is parmigiano cheese, followed closely by veal fillets. Now how many people do you know who do not like veal parmagiano?
3. Decent shopping comes closer and closer to Sciacca. An IKEA store is being built in Palermo, and one will open on the Catania side of the island by Christmas.
When I think what this could mean for me, I think of all those times I had to look for furniture with little choice other then cheap cheap cheap or incredibly expensive designer stuff. Now that we pretty much have what we want in our home, I also muse about Sicilian society and the young couples who do not have the thousands of dollars to furnish a house before they get married. Most of them have to buy everything at a store like Paolo’s with his store’s high prices. So two new things can happen: first, more couples will get married younger if they can do their own decorating inexpensively, and second, they can have babies earlier because they don’t have to pay off the huge furniture bills from the wedding.
Oh, wait, what am I thinking? That would only happen if young couples paid cash for their apartment’s furniture, and that is nearly unheard of here. No one pays cash or pays installments on time for that matter, and borrowing over the reasonable amount of credit is very common.
4. In case you are keeping track, Palermo lost today to Atalanta and got knocked out of first place by Inter. Palermo still is tied with Rome for second place.
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