My advice would be to try and fix yourslef up with a post before you make the move. Suanj is definitely correct when she states the north is your best bet but there a lot of tech companies around Rome too. It is a difficult time for the market and I know several techies who are thinking of looking ...

One more point.....
you might offend a sardinian if you refer to their speech as a dialect. It is mainly considered to be a lnguage

This might help.
8 May 1768 with the treaty of Versaglia Genova offered sovreignty to France in exchange for compensation.
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