From Self to the Guardian, Gen Z celebrates Italian grandmothers as a model of good living. From Sardinia’s Blue Zones to Cilento, cases prove it. Plus my retirement plans with friends.

Data and players of food delivery in Italy, between piece-rate pay, accidents, and heat stops. With a personal story: the interview where a soft skill, the gourmet, made the difference.

Years spent reading housing listings: single mothers, elderly renters, teachers. Then I bought a home in Milan. My own story inside Italy’s housing crisis, in data and real life.

From 2030, the EU bans plastic wrap on water six-packs, but with exceptions and blurry deadlines. The law, the data, the innovative materials, and who’s already moved, from Italy to the world.

Gen Z has stopped dreaming about the moped. From Italy’s 815,000 units sold in 1980 to 12,000 in 2025: the data, the reasons, and how a whole generation has reinvented freedom.

My smart TVs sit mostly silent. Live TV left my life years ago, and the data says I am far from alone, especially in Italy, where the schedule keeps speaking to someone’s grandparents.

Google Maps. I drag the pegman onto a street I once knew and scroll back through the years to find the people I lost. A strange, tender habit fueled by AI, and I am far from alone in it.