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Its right and normal that Yorkshire is the best.  

Rickardo, your teacher taught you well - but its a class thing - as most things are in Britain.  The aspiring upper lower and lower middle will say basin.  THe working class said sink, the aristocracy said 'bring me some water to wash my hands'  and so on.    Nobody will send you to Coventry for saying sink or basin, but you may lose an invitation to the Bridge club! 

Depends where you come from and whether your parents were minor aristocracy - Ive no doubt that the queen refers to a wash hand basin, which comes from the days of pitchers and ewers - ie - no drain or tap, where as a sink has a plug and a scarico.   But then are we with butlers sinks,  a still sink, a vessel sink or a farmers sink?    Are you a lounge, sitting room or front parlour person? 

Its not whether sterling will crash, but if the euro does go belly up, the knock on effects on sterling will be much much greater than any Brit thinks.  UK may not have otped into the single currency, but it is effectively bound up in it,  and should Europe get deeper into the doodoo, its inevitable that there will be a concomitant sterling hit.   Ugo - true, we should not believe everything we read in the papers, but foreign (in this case UK) papers dont tend to write the same amount of utter cr&/p as Italian ones.  Journalistic freedom is important, but INVESTIGATIVE journalism, not making up something to sell more copy.  The Italian press is on a par with 'Elvis found on Moon'   They print appalling hearsay and opinion under the protection of not revealing sources - an important principle but taken to extremes in Italy.  And with the huge government subsidies of newspapers that should be defunct, they carry on printing rubbish. A few history books would help alot - you cant understand the present without understanding the past.  And again, Italian text books are not exactly unbiased in their history reporting! 

Thanks Charlotte, Do you think a holographic Italian will will still suffice or will there be a standard European model to complete?! 

Ugo - In Italy everything must be in writing!  Obviously a waiver to any right must be written - accetazione tacita exists, but negazione tacita not!  Re the period:  Diritto di riscatto - 12 months for a straightforward sale, 18 months in certain conditions.  To my mind it is safer to assume 18 months, as it used to be. Diritto di prelazione - if I remember correctly, any money spent in the first 3 months between the compromesso and the atto must be padi by the confinante.  Money spent after the atto, as Penny says, is refundable by the vendor.  However, my original point remains.  Prelazione is very easy to avoid.  It is not rocket science. You need the signatures of the neighbours who have the right.  Thats all.  Once they have waived the right there is no further problem.   

I have a 500 and its nothing, nothing like a Panda.  It accelerates.  

Jiust to set the record straight on prelazione: It has nothing to do with whether is a vendesi sign on the property.  It has nothing to do with you being foreign or not. It has everything to do with the neighbour being a coltivatore diretto or azienda agricolo and who is an owner or working farmer with a full rental contract.  If that is the case he has the right of prelazione within 18 months of the date of the act of sale.  He must buy all or nothing - he cannot pick and choose land or buildings he wants.  He must pay what the buyer has paid at atto plus any other costs incurred in the meantime.  When there is an offer on a property, the agent or seller should get the neighbour to waive his right to prelazione by signing the appropriate form.  its not rocket science.  For the rest: it will always be cheaper to find a restored house or a new build than demolish and restore.  Of course it will be probable that you will have reinforced concrete instead of stone, and so on- but thats why its cheaper! 

I pay INAIL as I employ someone.  But - I get a bill from the Camera di Commercio telling me how much it is, and its nowhere near what you pay - its between 90 and 160 euros pa, and is - as fara s I can make out - for insurance cover for my employee while at work.  Its separate to INPS because its billed by the CCIAA even though its under the INPS heading - ie billed by teh CCIAA but paid to INPS.  Have you tried contacting your CCIAA? It may be so much because being a farmer is a high risk job - but it does seem a huge amount to me.