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O M G what a day it was. When we decided to buy a house in Spelunca, I was expecting things would not be easy. What I didn’t expect was to stumble into such an idiotic situation that would lead into a rabbithole of social issues, self-reflection, and generational conflict. Yesterday Mei-Lin and I finally… Continue reading Fucking Kids Nowadays

So, we want to buy this house in Spelunca. We have already visited the place (it was a short vacation to Italy a few weeks ago), did all the necessary inspections, bargained the price, found a notary, paid the “compromesso” (advance deposit), fine-tuned the sale contract conditions, and organized extra agreements with the current owner.… Continue reading House in Italy Challenge #1: Power of Attorney

The Fantasia Family is happy to announce a new saga on the AYFKM blog: we are finally buying a house in Italy! No, we are not leaving Switzerland. But in this age of slow interest rates, keeping cash in the bank is suicide. It’s not that we have SO MUCH cash to invest anyway, and,… Continue reading Buying a house in Italy!

Today I called the tax office of the city of Zerneve, because they should be the ones responsible for the refund of my tax declaration from years 2020, 2021, and 2022. I found at the phone an Italian-speaking guy even! But the news are, well, not exciting. The guy was like “Uhhh… OK, lemme check…… Continue reading 2020 Tax Odissey #3

I really hope there’s not gonna be much to write about this, but just for the record. Italian passports for infants have a validity of 3 years only, and Penelope’s is expired recently. It’s not a big deal because we don’t have international trips planned shortly, and anyway she still has the taiwanese passport which… Continue reading Penelope’s Italian Passport Renewal

After my threats to the tax office of kanton Zerneve I just received this reply: Dear Mr. Fantasia, Based on the steps taken by us, the tax at source for the year 2020 is now complete. I have now made the tax assessment based on the tax return filed by you. As no correction has… Continue reading 2020 Tax Odissey #2

Hello everyone, it’s been a while you don’t get any juicy updates. Well, that’s because there was not much to report so far: Mei-Lin’s application for Italian citizenship is done, now we just have to wait patiently; Serse’s bureaucratic situation is now settled in both Switzerland and Taiwan; Penelope is still not old enough to… Continue reading 2020 Tax Odissey… Again

Hello dear readers, life was going on boring as usual, when a few days ago I received an automated alert email from some taiwanese official website: the validity of my Gold Card is about to expire! Remember, last time I had to renew it because I changed my passport, but this time it’s just because… Continue reading Gold-Card Renewal (Again)

Unbelievably everything went smoothly! We went in person to the Asylum and we handed over all the gigathousands documents we collected for Mei-Lin’s application to Italian citizenship. Only thing of concern is that they also took the original of the Italian language certificate, but whatever, I don’t think Mei-Lin will need it anytime soon. Now… Continue reading Mei-Lin’s Application for Italian Citizenship Complete!

We went in-person to the Asylum to complete Mei-Lin’s application for Italian citizenship. This involved the following extra costs: Swiss residence certificates for me and Mei-Lin (pre-translated to Italian): 60 CHF Legalization of Mei-Lin’s signature at Asylum: 23.39 CHF Transportation costs: approx. 3 CHF. Approx. equal to 86.39 CHF. Plus the previous 830.75 CHF we… Continue reading Mei-Lin’s Italian Nationality Expense Tracking #7