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Awesome video again - thank you.

We can't wait! We are hoping for January. Where was the sea scene with the water break just off the walk way. That water looks amazing!

❤🙏🌎Italy 🌹🏡🌸🪷🔔

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Excellent !!!! i love italy

Beautiful host 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Beautiful English we are understanding

Nice! Seems like you were having a really nice time there.

So wonderful of a life change🙏👏💕🇮🇹

Nice

Nice

Love it ❤

I've always wanted to go to another country

Happy to hear you’ll be back. Wishing you the best on your health. ❤

Oh yes ! I often say that Italy is my second country and that if I had to move abroad, it would be there ❤

Beautiful ❤

Oh boy! Hurry back...we'll be here waiting to meet you!

Your dog 🐕 so cute! I have also dog I love animals. ❤

You guys should take that lovely kitty 🐈‍⬛ at home!! The kitty was cold & hungry 😢😢😢😢

I wish if I could be there tomorrow & leave everything behind & start a new life in Calabria… Aloha from Hawaii ❤

I’m going to to learn a lot more of your educational videos thank you 🙏 for your help! God bless all of you. Aloha from Hawaii ❤

I think people were confused by your first video, thinking you sold your bigger property and had no property in Italy.

Nice to hear, see You in Scalea 😊❤

Can't wait for more videos!! 😊

Hello. How wonderful to know all of this info. Look forward to seeing you all in Scalea at some point. Gina in Upstate NY USA moving to Italy/Portugal

Amazing Italian town with old buildings narrow streets. Thank you Mam

The Apartment managers there don't do a good job.. Having rental properties there makes sense if you live there and take care of them yourself.. I rented our place in Scalea in August; through Airbnb It went okay; although we didn't any more renters since then..

I am from Bangladesh. I love your vdo so much. How I can go Italy pls and pls help me😢

YES!

Ubavo se zabavuvav ovde

So happy for you and yours. I'm living vicariously through your posts. ❤

Love you too

What did you do with your luggage as I want to make a stop there for a few hours?

Thanks for sharing your experience. Glad you are not leaving this beautiful city.

Beautiful place 😍

Nobody from California should ever be allowed to come to Italy.

Apts scare me because of noise and cigarette smokers

Apts worry me because of noise and cigarette smoke.

Thank you for sharing your experience. Very helpful.

I don’t know what in California is so much better than living full time in Italy. The cost of living is a fraction of what it is in California. Unless, it’s because you are not yet retired and are making a small (or large) fortune in California. I don’t like the high prices, rude people, backwards politics, and the worst drivers in the world. To think I actually live in Las Vegas. The only way California is a wonderful place to live is if you are wealthy. Italy has 7% exclusion areas, which means for 10 years you only have to pay 7% income tax on your income. You have to find these areas and often they are not by the beach. After the 10 years, it goes up to the regular amount, which can be as high as 45%. It’s much lower if you don’t make a lot of money. This is one of the reasons why people move out of Italy. The Italian economy has been hurting for years. There are many more retired (elderly) people out there than gainfully employed younger ones. Because of a lack of substantial industries, many younger people opt to move out of Italy for financial reasons. Also, if you own a home in Italy and your parents pass leaving an inheritance home to you, Italy sees that as you being rich for some reason. Often their elderly parents didn’t put any money into upkeep simply because they didn’t have the money and they couldn’t do the work. They sell the property to the Hamlets (towns) for a dollar rather than pay the high taxes on the property. For this reason, many home go abandoned for years. You hear about how you can buy a home in Italy for one Euro. The problem with this is that they are the really trashed homes in bad parts of town. Even if you invested thousands into doing the repairs, because of the areas, you will never be able to get what you put into the place. Please understand that I am not saying to NOT live in Italy or purchase a home. There are homes that have well below California market values that make finding a nice comfortable house in Italy but probably not next to the beach. Also it doesn’t hurt to mention other Countries that are affordable, which offers every nice places close to the beach (within a block away) like Kenitra Morocco. A fantastic place in Italy is Bellagio. It was the inspiration for the casino in Las Vegas. Homes there hold their value, it’s safe, a bit tourist yet still comfortable with more of a home-town friendly feel. The lake is pleasant and so is the weather.

Impossible! California and Europe are not a good match at all.

I think some may be confused and think you are leaving Scalea. Please clarify. Thanks and best

With the renovations on our property complete, we thought too of renting it during the time we're not there. We opted against it for many of the reasons you've laid out. We may change our minds in the future but for now we're just going to enjoy the place while we're there (we'll be there again in a couple of weeks). Thanks for the video and hope we can meet up in the future.

Calabria is not the place to live in Italy . Go north !!!!! Very north!!!

Some of this Does not make sense. MOST OF THIS is common sense..

Thank you so much for all the concern and love you've sent our way. The story is more involved, but we are not going anywhere, we love Scalea and all of our friends there.

Did you sell both apartments? Sold one and kept the other? It is difficult to tell from the video. We visit Italy each summer but spend most of the time in the north near Milan but we were planning to visit the south next year.

This is why I don't want to rent my new apartment out. I hope I can afford it without having to rent it out. I'm glad you found a different apartment in Scalea that works better for you.