These last three entries will be each separate, and in reverse order.
I have come to love teaching more than I had ever expected. But I never intended to make a career out of teaching English. There are so many other things I want to try my hand at doing, and some of these things I might not even know about yet. But here, there is very little for me to do but to be an English teacher.
People ask why we’re moving to the States, and sometimes I have trouble remembering why, but the bottom line is this. Italy, for now, doesn’t have much in the way of opportunity. Unemployment for young people is sky high, and not just because of the recession. Meritocracy here is strangled at best; in some fields it is near non-existent. In Riccardo’s field there are far too many architects and draftspeople and very little real architectural work available, as most of Italy resists architectural innovation. The economy is leaching down the toilet, and has been for years, with no sign of recovery. In America things are a bit grim, but it’s the trough of a swinging pendulum. Here it’s been slow and steady erosion.
America is still the land of opportunity, and that’s why we’re going.
