Grandmother from Italy never liked it here.

[NickD 203]

Recall like yesterday she came from Manoppello PE, Italy, can't really get a good view on google maps, but lived in a castle with golden walls and had servants waiting on her. My grandfather owned a eight unit apartment building, but stayed in a basement apartment so he could shovel coal in Chicago. Can recall my grandma always complaining about that. We did live with them for several months. Grandfather did most of the cooking, grandma fixed supper once, still can recall throwing up.

Was telling my wife about this, this morning and she said she is like my grandma, never put two and two together, but at her mom's home in Bogota, did have separate living quarters for their maid and cook. I liked that area, separate from the main home and could make all of those embarrassing noises one makes from eating Latin American food in the separate bathroom.

Wife did try to hire a maid for here, one said $35.00 an hour, other said $200 per day for just housecleaning, guess who is cleaning the house. But I gather my wife was spoiled as well growing up. But she is a hard working career woman, so can't complain about that.

Brother was in Manoppello, Italy last year, he actually went to Rome and I sent him a map how to get their. Did visit their court house and got copies of our grandmother's birth certificate and marriage, but never asked to see her castle. Said he didn't have time, but the town is only like a square block. Was owned by land lords back then, so can see why my grandfather came here, no chance for advancement in Italy at the time. You were either born into it or screwed. But he did well here in America. From google a beautiful mountainous area, not like that over crowded area in Chicago. Sure would like to visit there, but priorities is my wife seeing her family for what little vacations we get. Maybe she can find a government job.

[Richard90027 1]

Recall like yesterday she came from Manoppello PE, Italy, can't really get a good view on google maps, but lived in a castle with golden walls and had servants waiting on her. My grandfather owned a eight unit apartment building, but stayed in a basement apartment so he could shovel coal in Chicago. Can recall my grandma always complaining about that. We did live with them for several months. Grandfather did most of the cooking, grandma fixed supper once, still can recall throwing up.

Was telling my wife about this, this morning and she said she is like my grandma, never put two and two together, but at her mom's home in Bogota, did have separate living quarters for their maid and cook. I liked that area, separate from the main home and could make all of those embarrassing noises one makes from eating Latin American food in the separate bathroom.

Wife did try to hire a maid for here, one said $35.00 an hour, other said $200 per day for just housecleaning, guess who is cleaning the house. But I gather my wife was spoiled as well growing up. But she is a hard working career woman, so can't complain about that.

Brother was in Manoppello, Italy last year, he actually went to Rome and I sent him a map how to get their. Did visit their court house and got copies of our grandmother's birth certificate and marriage, but never asked to see her castle. Said he didn't have time, but the town is only like a square block. Was owned by land lords back then, so can see why my grandfather came here, no chance for advancement in Italy at the time. You were either born into it or screwed. But he did well here in America. From google a beautiful mountainous area, not like that over crowded area in Chicago. Sure would like to visit there, but priorities is my wife seeing her family for what little vacations we get. Maybe she can find a government job.

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[NickD 203]

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Just trying to say, if you come to the USA, expect to clean your own house, cook your own meals, cut your own grass, shovel off your own snow as we don't have poor people here willing to work for three meals a day and a couple of extra bucks. Have welfare instead, minimum wage laws, and now laws against hiring illegals. But the latter won't work for nothing either.

Can't even get a plumber over to your home for under 75 bucks an hour after you already paid a stiff fee to get him out there. And with our luck, hire some guy like Joe the plumber that can't tell the difference between a plumbing pipe and his own pipe.

[Niels Bohr 72]

In Cambodia, I have servents. They wash my clothes, cook food, and clean the house when I'm there.

[mawilson 2,133]

In Cambodia, I have servents. They wash my clothes, cook food, and clean the house when I'm there.

Nice!

[Ladylethal 12]

Yeah, growing up in Brasil we had a gardener (not a company, an actual person who was our exclusive gardener, everyday job), a maid just to clean and do laundry, and another maid just to cook. When there was an economy crisis in Brasil we'd cut back to just one maid to clean and cook, and once a week had our laundry done by a lady that washed clothes in her own house. We were upper middle class, but not out of the ordinary. So yeah, very different than in US.

In fact, I had a maid who had a maid.

Edited January 8, 2010 by Ladylethal