Turning Tuscan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Going Native By Sam Hilt

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This is a story about what it’s like to fall in love with Tuscany in your mid-life years, to buy a home there, to change around your work, and, finally, to leave the San Francisco Bay Area and move with your wife and children to a tiny Tuscan village. That’s the first part. The second part tries to share what it’s like living here once you’ve made the move: learning the language, becoming part of a village community, running a tour company, understanding the political scene, getting an internet connection, enjoying Renaissance art, spending time in the hospital, appreciating the bureaucracy, and enduring customer service at The Phone Company.I’ve tried to write it all in a way that will make you feel like an honored guest invited into the cockpit as we transfer from America to Tuscany and set up shop. And, in case you’re wondering what kind of crazy person does such a thing, and whether you might be one, I try to share enough personal history and detail about our lives on both sides of the ocean to satisfy your curiosity.As a foreigner who enters into another culture, there’s a limited window of time available to you to see these things and to try to record them in some way. You have to become Italian enough to play the game, but not so Italian yet that it all becomes invisible. If you wait too long, you are no longer in a position to reflect or comment on cultural differences because what people are doing seems totally normal to you.Ripeness is all, as the poet said, and hopefully I’ve managed to capture for you some of the subtler aspects of living here that travel photos, even high resolution ones, can never reveal.

At this time of writing, The Audiobook Turning Tuscan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Going Native has garnered 8 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Audiobook is Good TO READ!

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I looked forward to being able to share the writer's journey to a new country and be privy to learning in detail the changes, positive and negative. My love affair with travelogues means that I have read a great deal of memoir/travel stories of people moving to Italy. I am well acquainted with the hassle of navigating bureaucracy, applying for municipal services, the rudeness of public servants, the language issues etc. Its well documented and one gleans that information through a writers narrative so titling and then devoting entire chapters to the supposed irredeemably bad roads, service, car issues, lack of a corporate responsibility to clients is frankly overkill and sounds like an endless winge. Whingeing can often be funny and insightful if it's written without a deep seated sense of superiority...which unfortunately this writer fails to adequately conceal despite being a competent writer and someone who prides himself on his ability to understand human behavior...Jung, Freud, Derrida, Marcuse...all crop up boringly regularly. This paragraph kind of sums up this negativity:Italians don’t seem to have that secondary layer of skills at manipulation of abstractions that would enable them to manage and integrate companies as huge as GM or GE or G anything. Individuals are typically bright and capable, but once they are incorporated into an organization of any size, beware! One can only hope that at some point Italians will learn to step aside when it comes to software, infrastructure design, project management or large systems integration and hire Germans, Israelis or Americans—people who are actually good at this kind of stuff.!!!!Wow, what sweeping generalizations about an entire nation of very diverse people. That kind of assumption figures largely including that his reader is even remotely interested in huge sections about Renaissance art, its worldview and how hopelessly wrong the academic world are in their understanding of its nuances and relevance to New Age thinking. All interesting stuff but it has no place in the book outside of the fact that the move to Italy was made in order for them to capitalize on the success of their Renaissance art tours.I would have preferred to hear about his children, school, his wife, their trips within Italy, friends...food, their home.Instead the writer is unable to resist filling space with tedious detail about obscure academic pontificating. As an academic myself, I can appreciate the odd reference that allows me insight into the writer's ideology and value system but a failure to understand the purpose of the title is very undergrad.So I enjoyed snippets of the book .his hospitalization and his own insight that he may need to learn how to overcome his own assumptions about himself, others and the world...learn to love a little.

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