I can’t really talk to anyone about this.
As I already wrote, I just feel bad in the cold and darkness. I’ve tried everything but it just doesn’t work.
I live in Germany btw.
I can only live properly for a few months a year, then the whole thing starts over again.
Why southern Italy?
I come from the coast of Croatia, which has a lot of Italian influences, which I have always liked and because it is warm all year round in the south of Italy.
Furthermore, I just like it there, I can’t really describe it.
I don’t want to go to Croatia anymore, I’m fed up with the Balkans.
I just wanted to get this off my chest, for many people something like this is probably completely unthinkable but I’m not getting any younger either.
I came from Southern California to southwest Germany and the winters are getting longer, colder and wetter and the summers are getting shorter… and wetter. I’m starting to hatch a plan to go live in the southwest part of Spain in the next couple years. I work down there a few times a year and the weather reminds me of San Diego. These winters really fuck me up. I love it here, but it’s getting harder to enjoy!
I moved for the same reason and after 6 months of sun, I felt like I was in love.
It must be a brain chemical thing that some of us are sensitive to. Sunshine just makes me happy.
Agree entirely (I live in Germany and the winters are awful) but I do wonder what all these people who move to Mediterranean countries where the economies aren’t great and English isn’t necessarily widely spoken do for work?
Moving for climate is always a valid reason, it’s a fundamental reason why humans move.
Do it! If you can, go ahead and do it.
You might be suffering from vitamin D deficiency which can cause depression. In winter the skin does not produce enough vitamin D if you are mostly indoors. You probably need to take some extra vitamin D pills.
Move to Spain. Less fascists & volcanoes.
Please consider vitamin D supplements. They changed my life in a gloomy climate.
You may know about it but the property website Idealista has an Italian section, rentals are so cheap (here in Dublin IRL rents are €2k pm 😬)… and can relate to SAD impacting you.
On Italian, I recently signed up to a course for 2024 with Teacher Stefano (find him on Instagram he is very good, knowledgeable etc), with Black Friday sales approaching, you might like his courses.
Hope this helps!
Southern in Italy is beautiful and cheaper, but it also has many problems. Public administration, public healthcare, public transportation, even the justice system do not work properly in many instances. Liguria is a region in the North with beautiful seaside and warm climate, maybe rainier than the South during autumn/winter but it compensates with better services/economy. Imperia is the city with the best climate in Italy. For a ranking of Italian cities with regard to climate: https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/indice-del-clima/indexT.php
I’m in the UK and the days are short and depressing. Try vitamin tablets. You might be low on certain vitamins which will make you feel low
I moved from the PNW to central Mexico because of this in 2018. 320 days of clear blue sky and glorious sun / yr.
Winter depression is a known thing. If you have the means to find yourself a better suited place, I’d recommend following up on it. 👍
That sounds like a great idea. Good luck!
Sounds like a solid plan to me. And luckily you’re able to do so. When I moved abroad the only reason I had, really, was that I visited this place and thought I would like it. So then I moved. Now I am a citizen and have a family here and a job but when I first came it was really just that…I felt like it.
And for me, being somewhere without winter is important too. It’s not trivial! winter is hell. I live in one of the hottest countries in the world now lol.
I’m in Morocco right now, it’s 30 plus degrees every day and sunny and I still have seasonal depression terribly. Just so you know, it might not help. I’m thinking about moving to the equator but I just found out that even in the Philippines people get seasonal depression so I guess there is just no escape.