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American house hunters buy up an Italian village
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2016
- Hundreds of years after an Italian bumped into America, Americans are now traveling to the tiny Italian village of Guardia Sanframondi, where they are snatching up houses for as little as $15,000 - and the locals are rolling out the welcome mat. Allen Pizzey reports.
"You can live quietly but that's it." He says. Do you know how many people would love to live quietly in any part of the world?
What he meant was that there are no jobs whatsoever. How long can you pay property tax, insurance and all the bills without making any money?
There are better options.
health care is free in italy and on the first house you own there are no property tax ..no kidding@@NorceCodine
"She did a Columbus in reverse..."
um, let's hope not
@edie sheridan Humor isn't your thing, is it?
So it's fine for tens of millions of Italians and other Europeans to settle and make the Americas their home, but not the reverse (thought it's fine for Africans and Pakistanis).
I love how everything is made out of stone. It's so beautiful.
If you have retired and are not part of a social group of friends or have a job that you could do from any where in the world then this is perfect. I came from a small village in England. The situation is much the same there
Would that I could live in a small Village in England
most of the younger generation is moving to big cities but that's just so frustrating. Big cities are expensive, everything is far away, people are cold and you are tired all the time. World should be like this little village: cheap, friendly and cozzy
I have been saying this to Johnny for years...lets move to Italy...why not!
Crafty Grandma bring me with you! I can farm
Well did you go?
You can walk the streets at any time and be safe. No crime because no young people..The $64 question is do you have internet?
Such historical land and real estate
That's an economically depressed area of Italy? It's got nothing on the U.S. Would any foreigners like to buy in an economically depressed area of America, say, Detroit, St. Louis, or Gary, Indiana?
And a lot of middle easterners, Indians (as in India) and the Chinese are in fact buying up a lot of these places. And for cash. I'm in real estate in DC, MD and VA and don't think for a second that it's not happening here as well.
@mike a Ha. That's exactly what I'm saying. In the U.S. an economically depressed area is one where no one would want to live regardless of the price of the real estate. The only people who would buy are those that are speculating.
Depressed but with historical values.
@Boomer Alert that's good news! If folks (of any persuasion) wish to buy in good faith, plant some roots and become part of any community... I am all for it. It's just that around here I have seen too many flippers and it's destroying the housing market by driving up prices and making housing too expensive for citizens who live and work in this area. It's also fragmented the community of people who live in those once tight knit communities.
i love village life
We have a similar situation in a few towns in Sicily where by being on HHI they have become an aging expat bubble. To each his own. Good for them. It would not be my choice. I have lived here full time 20 years and my only advice is that for what they pay all in - they could get a much better location. If I was going to deal with all the downsides of living in the Mediterranean - I was definitely going to make up for them by living with a seaview. Being within an hour of major cities and airport. Not trapping myself with other English speakers so never really learning the language. Again, to each his own.
People think health care here is "free" ( it is not to those of us who actually pay taxes) but depending on where you are you won't have access to more comprehensive care .
Also, don't expect these types of homes to pay you back ( unless you can pawn it off on another newbie). Make sure you arrive fully funded. You can Iive on less in poorer areas of Italy but it won't be an Under The Tuscan Sun style existence.
It doesn't matter where in the world, location, location,location still applies.
I WISH I COULD BUY A PLACE LIKE THAT....
My father in law came to the U.S when he was 28. Almost 60 years ago. I would love to go back and put his picture on the wall of the house I bought
You will cry then of happiness
Man.... 15grand! Beats LA anyday!!!!! I know what my new goal is! LOL
Russbot Apocalypse 2020 Depends if Municipality intended adopting same project as Gangi in Sicily. Else you will pay full price, like the lucky person who bought that ancient courthouse for 50.000 US$.
Russbot Apocalypse 2020 How could I had such link?
We all just know it exists from the video and it is a private house.
It is even enough the landlord gave permission filming its courtyard.
Russbot Apocalypse 2020 Whoops... Forgive me. I forgot in English there is a double meaning intending both the buildings of courts of justice and architectonically a house that surrounds completely its courtyard... 🤣🤣🤣
How does an American move there without a visa?
If you buy a home it is pretty easy to obtain the visa. You can even apply for duble-citizenship, it is not that hard
There are other factors to consider, such as jobs. Did you hear "economically suppressed", unfortunately it is (notice they are retirees). Owning a vehicle is very expensive, expect to pay more than $3k a year just for insurance alone as a non-citizen. Just become a citizen you say....10 years. You need to be able to speak some Italian and eventually become fluent to make it. Don't count on people to know English and especially not in the country.
Homes can be cheaper in the countryside but lack services, healthcare and will most likely need a great deal of repair (if you bought a super cheap home in your area what would it look like?). Do repair yourself you say? Can you read metric? No Home Depots or Lowes and completely different electrical, plumbing, and building techniques. Better be a stone mason too!
Shipping your stuff will be almost as expensive as buying new and anything you plug in will most likely need to be bought again. Those tools to re-do your new house, yeah need new ones too! Some hand tools will work, but the weight makes it hardly worthwhile.
Buying the home will require an English/Italian speaking liaison that understands the process and will work for you...good luck with that! Taxes can and will fluctuate wildly, so be prepared for that as well. The Government has huge corruption issues, another consideration. This is only the tip of the iceberg, so do your homework prior to flying off for a dream. It's NOT just a 15k home in a beautiful land, that's only a dream.
Oh for goodness sake. Stop being so bloody negative and melodramatic. It's one of the most interesting and beautiful countries in the WORLD !!
@@angelaberni8873 yeah i think they're mad the americans and infiltrating our country.. i am.
Just don’t let them make American decisions for you town , keep it all in the Italian tradition and culture
I am really intrigued by this---I would love to know how difficult or easy it is to actually do this--move to Italy...the real inside scoop.
Jennifer L Ask Rafael di Furia Channel on RUclips. He became an US expat in Treviso describing how is life of an expat in Italy.
i purchased a home in tropea - i cant wait till i can be there full time
So now we will have towns in the United States like the burbs of Detriot, towns in Ohio, towns in West Va, all across rural USA offering foreigners an opportunity to move here on the cheap because no one wants to live there also..lol
Yeah, where everyone have guns...
Foreigners with $$$ will buy houses in Europe over the US --- except in NY, LA, SF.
Shut up and take my 1 dollar !
Hello! I'm from the same area as Guardia Sanframondi, and I belong to a volunteer asociation working for local promotion. It would be very useful for us if you let me add Italian subs to this video in order to share it among locals. May you please allow me to do so?
Thats an excellent idea!
I can do this. The winter might not be for me but still worth it.
Italian here, what can I say about this report is that it was surprisingly accurate on a financial standpoint. I live in a village really similar to this and I can tell you that if your budget for an house is 50k dollars than you might get something to easily inhabit for the next 20 years, obviously not the latest technology home but something you can work with for sure, if you wanna go down with the price to 20k circa you have to expect to buy something really modest, for example where I come from, a village in the mountains 1 hour drive from Naples, you can get a 44 mq (440 sqft circa if i'm not wrong) 2 room (one living room/kitchen and one bedroom) semi detached house in the centre of the village, 50 meters from the little supermarket, the pharmacy and the local bar/ristorante. The condition is decent since these houses were previously lived by old people or people who recently left the village to move to the city and are now selling out (mainly because sometimes the taxes here, even tho not really high if you only own 1 cheap house, are not worth the price of the house). Obviously the greatest price to pay, as it doesnt seem like it's stressed enough in the report, is the fact that most of these villages are slowly dying, both because people want to live in big cities but also because our country is getting older and older and people don't make many childeren, to give you an example, when I was a kid there were 17 kids in my class, meaning 17 kids roughly born the same year, but today the same classes in the same school barely get to 4 or 5 kids for each year and they don't make it with the minimun number to form a class, so the kids have to go to the town. Don't expect the community of old or middle aged people you'll find in America or other places, I have been here and there both in UK, US and other first world countries and the social life is totally different, in fact while it's generally true that you can knock on your neighbors' door and ask them for some spare salt or something like that, there is not nearly as much the social life you might get in an american neighborhood, mostly because in these places there is no local cinema or bowling hall and old people only meet each other at the curch or the bar to play card games.
That's one of the many reason why people are leaving these places but tbh it all depends on the life you are expecting to live, I, not being a particularly social guy and studying/work mostly from home, have lived really decently here, but I also always tried to keep some funds to be able to rent a place in the city I have to be in order to not feel stuck here, but when it comes to older people what might not be a problem.
As far as the costs of living go, it's difficult to give out numbers, but the general idea is that if you own a decent house in one of these villages you have to expect to pay a decent amount for the electric and gas bills, in fact the prices have really skyrocketed recently and if your house has really crappy thermal insulation (as it's common in these old houses) you might even spend an average of 100 euro per month if you are a single person, then comes the food and other stuff price, and that really depends on your person, but to get an idea what I can tell you is that stuff here costs about as much as in other first world country, maybe a little cheaper, but we are not talking about a lot from my experience. The taxes, depending on what you might be used to, might be really low, in fact if you only own 1 house and live in the village, you'll pay no taxes on the house, there's to say tho that every item you buy has a tax in it which goes from 4% to 22% for third necessity items, also healtcare is free, meaning that if you break your leg you'll walk out the hospital without paying a pence, but medicines and medical specialist examinations will have to be paid, and if you are old and need a lot of those, that might be your main expense, I know old men in my village who might spend as little as 200 or 300 euros per month for first necessity stuff, but will have to spend the rest of their money for their healt (for example hiring a part-time nurse).
The problem is there is no future there,
All people want to live in or near big city.
I'm 25% Italian on my father's side and I dream of calling to Italy to live. What website do I need to get on for this charming and lovely Village. The only problem that scares me and my husband is we do neither of us do not speak Italian. I am also visually impaired with cerebral palsy would I be welcome in this small community,
If you are American, contact the Italian consulate in the city closest to you. Lots of info on the consulate website. If you can get citizenship recognized by bloodline, you have access to permanent residency.
You don't need to worry about residency permit and such with a US or EU passport, and health care is free. Your worry is if you need special health care round the clock. They are not prepared for that.
Great idea for a tv show!
You will need a Visa to move permanently to Italy or to any European country !!!
It is pretty easy to obtain it if you already own a home
SK8City Even if you own a home.....it.s not « pretty easy to obtain »
@@EL90291 it is.
if you are an american citizen you can already stay for 90 days without any visa
SK8City You will need a Visa to move * PERMANENTLY * to Italy or to any European country !!!
Hmmmm, I wonder why you can walk the streets safely at night? What population must be absent to allow such a thing? Hmmm? Watch the clip again and notice the people walking around. It should become clear unless you are in denial.
@mike a Yup you guess it my friend! But we are not allowed to acknowledge it or talk about it or we might send some lefties to their safe spaces
I doubt whether just purchasing these types of houses, in these types of locations is the end of the matter, not by a long way.
Looks amazing!
I think the main difficulty is getting a visa, even with an American passport.
you can live there for up to 90 days at a time with no visa. so it would make a good vacation home
Ask for Italian taxes!!
it is pretty easy to obtain it if you own a home, it is also not that hard have duble-citizenship
@@sk8city476 How do you get dual citizenship?
@@gloing It depends on how much time you will pass here.
If own a home and you are planning to retire in Italy you can apply for the italian citizenship and of course you can maintain you original citizenship too.
I do not know how long it takes but I know that it is more easy if you own a home.
Of course if you are a EU citizen than you do not need any visa and stuff...and you can use your Euro health care card too.
This looks great for a retiree but if you consider the health services, cold winter and lack of economic activity, well south Mexico offers the village's quiet and peaceful life with good and cheap health services and local active economy, good fresh food for cheap and friendly neighbors and way closer to home in case you want to come visit family for a weekend
health service? The Italian public health care system is ranked 2nd in the world.
If you are a resident you can have the health care card even if you are not an italian citizen.
Plus, if you own a home it makes it easy to get the double citizenship
They should film a season of jersey shore here
Did they buy the entire village?
Everybody in this comment section is so anti-american and ignorant. It won’t take long for some 60 year old to argue about my comment.
Bless you:-)
Locked down. Live it up!
In Benue state Nigeria, My friend built and roofed a new 2 bed room flat for less than $9000 in 2019.
yes, but it is in Nigeria
That lady paid $15,000 when other Italian towns are selling houses for $1/€1/£1 each. Fact.
That's true, but he bought a house in mainland Italy - $1 houses are in Sicily, and are mostly abandoned houses put on sale by the major. I mean, you can reach Naples, Rome or Apulia in a few hours by car from Guardia Sanframondi.
Yes, you give job to the village people to restore the house, but what kind of job will you do in this pour town in the middle of nowhere?
These guys are the one-percenters, with cash galore.
Young Italians have been leaving their villages since the establishment of the EU. It's a political disaster. Now when they aren't Italians but "Europeans" they can move to an interesting modern city in Germany. Italians are hoping that young foreigners would find their places interesting, but what they had to do is modernize everything, bring some hi-tech companies or open universities instead of staying rooted in the 19th Century. You can have both good vegetables, beautiful house and modern businesses, if you are smart enough.
Shoshana Rubbish! Have you ever heard about the massive emigration from the south of Italy during the 19th century?!? EU didn't exist yet! Italian people leaves little towns because they want to find a job that could provide them an higher economic status, like every young people from all around the word since the Egyptian!
The link of the emigration to the EU creation is laughable - it has started way back: my parents moved from Southern Italy village to Northern Italy back in the '70, but the emigration from Italy to other countries started in the late 19th century - like, more than 100 yrs before the EU. Also, it is pretty clear that you have only a superficial knowledge of Italy - we don't need to "modernize" the country, which already hosts high-tech companies and good universities. It is obvious you are judgmental without even having visited Italy: Milan is one of the richest and most modern cities in Europe. Just like any other country (including the US!) people are leaving rural area. That's all. And one more point about the EU: it allowed us, all of us, to travel and live freely in the whole Europe. And frankly, I don't really understand how having more choices can be a "disaster".
Is all of Italy for sale?
only the part that has not benne sold yett :D
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I'd like to make you an offer on that house you can't refuse
So, how much is a house in Rome, is it like crazy expensive there.
Weren't the Italian people having problems trying to find their own place since landlords were only renting out places for foreigners as a vacation home instead of them getting a hotel.....don't let foreigners buy these houses, let the native Italians that really need them have it
it is in mostly abandoned villages - it is plenty of real estate properties there. Investments won't hurt in those places.
These houses should be sold only to other Italians and not to foreigners.
'' THERE'S SOME THING'S TO CONCIDER IF YOU WANTED TO MOVE THERE.IF YOU BUY A HOUSE,HOW LONG DO THEY GIVE YOU TO FIX IT UP TO CODE.? #2-WHAT'S THE HOSPITAL SITUWATION,HOW FAR AWAY IS IT,WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR'S ARE THERE.AND SENSE THE ROAD'S ARE ETC.DO YOU HAVE TO WALK TO THE MARKET.HOW MUCH IS THE OVERAUL COST OF LIVING.? THERE MANY THING'S TO CONCIDER...YOUR GOING INTO A PLACE WHERE THERE MIGHT STILL BE MOB PPL.BUT IT DOES LOOK NICE..AND CHECK TO SEE IF THEY HAVE WIFI,AND WHAT ARE THE GUN LAW'S.TO DEFEND YOURSELF IN YOUR HOME..AND I'M SURE YOU CAN THINK OF OTHER THING'S..I MEAN I'M JUST SAYING,''YOU GOTTA CHANGE EVERYTHING,EVEN HOW YOU THINK..BUT,''ONE THING FOR SURE,ITALEAN FOOD IS WORTH IT ALONE,AHH,AND PIZZA.AND THE BEAUTIFUL VIEW FROM THE CLIFF'S..
Boomers blocking younger generations once again
I'm pretty sure columbus was spanish
And you're totally wrong :)
He was italian, from Genova.