My Life in the “Village Piazza” seen through adolescent eyes
9 min readDec 11, 2022
A European dream of a different kind
Inspired by recent comments made on an Medium.com on European apartment living [1]
I am, more than ever, missing Italy, and my old village life in ways that just 3 years ago I could barely imagine. I miss my adolescent experience to the point where now I talk and fantasize about the European dream on almost every occasion when I come across “paesanos”, a behavioral response that is semi-automatic , deliberately cathartic and generally uplifting.