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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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Also, why buy if you don't want to live there?
It's not gonna earn rent out there. Italy, among other countries also let's you buy abandoned homes.
Not sure if they're still doing it, but a few years back (holy shit maybe a decade), Italy was even offering to pay people to move there. But there were massive conditions. Like, you had to buy a historical property, maintain it to their standards, and open a business to boost tourism, or something along those lines. I looked into it and was kind of intrigued, but it seemed pretty obvious it was designed to draw rich expats, not average losers like me.
I believe they now charge $1. Still unaffordable.
In my case, I moved to the Japanese countryside because I wanted to farm, mostly. But, yeah, I'm definitely not the average case.
Sounds amazing, as long as the locals don't show dissent.
So far so good a year in. Everyone's been super friendly and helpful.
In some cases in Italy the condition for buying is that you'll live there.
That's good.