More and more people would like to lead a simplified life after their big bosses approved their retirement paper. After claiming their back pays, thoughts of getting a new life and literally moving on with their lives are lurking in their heads. A peaceful and close to nature life is a top choice for retirees. Perhaps, a mental picture of an old house in a country village and horseback riding by the shore is a stereotype portrait for you. A quaint choice can lead a profound living in one of the autonomous regions in Italy. A simple life is amplified in Sicily, which is the largest of all islands in the Mediterranean Sea and once regarded as city-state. It covers a land area about 25,708 square kilometers. Sicilians are bi-lingual so they speak both Italian and Sicilian.
If you plan to move into the best cities to retire, the cities of Palermo, Catania, Messina, and Syracuse, are the places to be. They are quite busy and moderately crowded places. However, if you want to spare yourself and your family from the honking horns and busy streets, you can head to Gela, Ragusa, Trapani, Vittoria, and Caltanissetta.
After you have found a nestling place, the next best thing to do is to find out what hearty meals can be served on the dining table every day. Interestingly, Sicily can provide you with a healthy carb diet. Since, it is blessed with an agricultural soil; it would not run short with supplies of some barley, corn, wheat, olives, wine grapes, citrus fruits, almonds, cottons. There are cardio-friendly catch, which include fish and tuna. Sicilians also raise cattle, including donkeys and sheep.
Choosing to live a life in Sicily would not make you feel nostalgic as some of its culture may not be too different from yours. This might ring true for most people. An instance would be the value that a Sicilian family gives off in order to preserve a closed-knit family relationship. There are even so many ways from which you can identify yourself, which is through the festivals they held all year long, which include presepe vivente (or the animated crib) and feast days.
If you want to take some time off, you can go places. Sicily is surrounded by islands – Aeolian Islands of Messina, isle of Ustica (in Palermo), Aegadian Islands (in Trapani), isle of Pantelleria (also in Trapani), and Pelagian Islands (in Agrigento). People are known to be laid back and accommodating to foreign visitors and settlers, though, they cannot communicate well in English.
The baby blue skies and dry climate lets you enjoy your leisure time. Take a tour in Mount Etna, the pristine beaches, and the archeological sites. If you want to indulge in a physical activity, Sicilians love to play football and basketball. Once you get into this island, you will gain good company with the Sicilians in no time.
So if you are ready for a whole new world, why not take an one hundred-eighty-degree turn around, you might find yourself facing an unfamiliar yet magnificent simplified life.