Do you want to go house-hunting in Italy?

From Linda Falcone’s article for the newspaper Florentine..

Have you ever tried house-hunting in your country? It isn’t easier in Italy, because there aren’t many big and clean places!
Nowadays a lot of young people search for a flat to share with others guys or student friends: there are agencies that help you to find the right flat for you even if it might not always be the house you are looking for.
A young girl has described her experience so that we can better understand what it is all about. Certainly she was not interested in luxurious houses, but this was not the problem…
When she arrived to the house, everything seemed perfect but when she met the agent, she changed her opinion: he explained that three people had lived in the house before, but it definitely wasn’t her dream house :there were a lot of fuzzy bats, hanging upside-down in the wardrobe and there was only a window!!! So..it looked like an old warehouse!
When the girl went back to her aunt’s house, and asked her if she could put her up for some more days, she was playing solitaire and wasn’t too worried for her, even if her niece had visited two houses and she still hadn’t found something she really liked!
She had agreed to host her niece, because she knew what it was like to be a single woman, but Linda couldn’t stand staying in her house so long.
The following morning, her aunt went into her niece’s bedroom and she gave her a bundle. She said that was for her dowry but she wanted Linda to have it in that moment.
Linda was a bit worried about that, but, when she unfolded the tablecloth and found it strewn with lotus flowers and exotic birds, she thanked her aunt Meri for the present.
Her aunt told her that she would need the tablecloth back when she would find her own house.
In that moment, Linda realised that someday soon her home would come but that she could live in her aunt’s house until then.

Greta Perini e Giulia Covacci