teachandtravel

If I was to try an extended stay in Italy how long could I stay on passport from US ? I could work as online college professor anywhere with Internet access. Which seafront town would be least expensive and easy access to visit sites in Italy or surrounding countries? I've visited Sorrento, but wondered what northern cities were like. My husband wants to be near the water, but near train routes or airports so we could travel throughout Europe. Or would it be best to station ourselves in an English speaking country and travel to Italy?

Seamus

90 days is the max without a visa.

janisj

90 days in any 180 day period - and that is anywhere in Schengen so you don't get 90 days in Italy and then more in France and more in Spain or anything like that. 90 days period.

>>Or would it be best to station ourselves in an English speaking country and travel to Italy?<<

Huh? That is an entirely different situation - - what do you mean -- visiting Italy for the odd week or two?

adrienne

I'm a bit confused. Italy is 700 miles long and surrounded by water on 3 sides. That's a lot of real estate. You're looking for easy access to sights but what sights do you have in mind? The south is going to be much cheaper than the north.

Without a visa you can only stay within the Schengen Zone for 90 days in any 180 days. There are 26 Schengen countries for which these terms apply.

http://travel.state.gov/content/pass...act-sheet.html

It would be rather expensive to stay in an English speaking country and commute to Italy for sightseeing. Unless you stay on Malta which is close to Italy.

teachandtravel

Thanks for quick replies. 90 days could allow us to maybe spend a month in Italy and then a couple months in Northern Europe where we've not been. Regarding the waterfront. I'm looking for a quaint town similar to Sorrento but closer to northern Italy since we've already been to Rome, Pisa , Naples, and Pompeii. I want to be able to hop on train or bus and see Florence, Venice, Milan.....maybe fly to Paris.

adrienne

There's no one location where you could see Florence, Venice, and Milan as day trips. You would need an overnight (or several nights) in Venice if you stay on the west coast. The same is true for Milan and Florence if you stay on the east coast.

The seaside towns I've been to on the west coast are expensive. But perhaps someone else will give suggestions.

isabel

Rapallo or Camogli - somewhat similar to Sorrento but on the northern west coast. But as pointed out above, not day trip distance from anywhere except possibly Florence and Milan (and Genoa). But closer to northern Italy destinations than Sorrento.

teachandtravel

Overnights would be fine. I'm just looking for an inexpensive quaint place to stay and do my online teaching, but the traveling somewhere different for a few days maybe every other week. Is that even reasonable or foolish to think my part time job could support that for 3 months.?

Nonconformist

Legally, you're not supposed to be working even if it's online and paid in your home country, unless you have a visa permitting you to work. The visa-free stay for 90 days is supposed to be for tourism.

StCirq

Right, you can't legally be working, whether it's online or not. You'll need a work visa, and that is a pain to get in most cases.

adrienne

<< Is that even reasonable or foolish to think my part time job could support that for 3 months.? >>

Does your part time job support you at home? Does it support rent/mortgage, transportation, insurance, utilities, food? If not then it won't support you in Italy.

nytraveler

You can expect cost of living in Italy to be abuot 1/3 more than in the same type of area in the US (just due to the difference in currencies). So if 75% of your part-time income would support you in the US then all of it would probably support you in Italy.

But in fact working there - even on-line - is not legal without a special work visa which is complicated and time-consuming to get - if you can get one at all. If you do this for a month it's unlikely anyone would catch you - but longer term you are risking being caught and deported.

janisj

I think you got this dream idea to stay in some 'quaint' (not that great a description since they aren't museums/movie sets) w/o having any idea of the realities. You can't work and you can't stay more than 90 days.

From the >>near an airport so we can travel around Europe<< bit, it seems you are talking about quite an extended stay.

Maybe you've watched too many House Hunters International

bvlenci

Doing online teaching for a US university, paid in $USD, deposited in a US bank, while you're essentially a tourist in Italy is not the kind of thing that requires a work permit in Europe.

When I got a work permit to work in the Netherlands, my Dutch employer had to file for the permission, and they had to show evidence that there was no Dutch person who could do the job instead of me. Should the University of Phoenix need to request permission for their employee to submit work assignments online from Italy? If you accept this logic, it could lead to some rather extreme analogies. Does a Japanese tourist require a work permit to make calls to clients in Japan while he's on holiday in Sardegna? Does an Australian author require a work permit to write his novel in Paris?

teachandtravel

Ok sounds like I will just work here and save for a trip. Just thought it was a good retirement idea. No need for anymore responses. Thanks.