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Sept 25, 2024 11:58:03 GMT
Post by piglet on Sept 25, 2024 11:58:03 GMT
Ive just read an article about the best Italian villages to move too, i want some of that, im already half Italian. Being old and doing it alone would be daunting, is anyone interested,?, and buy a house or houses to live there, most of you are older like me, we could have our own community in the sun. I cant at the moment i am a carer, but when the chance comes.....
WHOS INTERESTED, this isnt a joke. If anyone is we could get in touch, begin to plan, choose where etc.
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Sept 25, 2024 14:53:28 GMT
Post by Ripley on Sept 25, 2024 14:53:28 GMT
Ive just read an article about the best Italian villages to move too, i want some of that, im already half Italian. Being old and doing it alone would be daunting, is anyone interested,?, and buy a house or houses to live there, most of you are older like me, we could have our own community in the sun. I cant at the moment i am a carer, but when the chance comes..... WHOS INTERESTED, this isnt a joke. If anyone is we could get in touch, begin to plan, choose where etc. Do you speak the language? If not, give serious thought to learning it. It will make your life easier. A few years ago, we almost moved to France but ultimately decided, because we have grandchildren here and no relatives in France, that we'd just have a flirtation with the country rather than a committed relationship.  Visiting is always pleasant, but living there is a much more complex experience, and one you should consider very carefully before uprooting. |
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Sept 25, 2024 15:13:19 GMT
Post by Dan Dare on Sept 25, 2024 15:13:19 GMT
Non-EU nationals purchasing property in an EU country will ordinarily only be able to live in it for up to 180 days in a year. The other six months they'll need to have somewhere else to live.
Brits can thank Brexit for that.
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Post by Dogburger on Sept 25, 2024 18:31:47 GMT
Non-EU nationals purchasing property in an EU country will ordinarily only be able to live in it for up to 180 days in a year. The other six months they'll need to have somewhere else to live. Brits can thank Brexit for that. Not really . If you invest £200,000 they will give you a resident visa or if retiring you can apply for an Italian retirement visa where you need to prove you have the funds to look after yourself . There are basically no bars if you have the money and to be honest you are not going to move abroad unless you have , are you ? Sort of how it worked before the EU started making the rules ,other countries have cheaper entry requirements but nearly all countries in the World run similar schemes some costing more than others . |
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Sept 25, 2024 22:34:26 GMT
Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 25, 2024 22:34:26 GMT
My Italian woman is living over in Italy at the moment. She went over a couple of months ago in a town which is quite small, nice looking but no beaches nearby. It's about an hour from Venice. A very nice looking place would be Capri. Also I had a friend who used to go a lot to Ischia and that is supposed to be nice. Watch out for the Mafia though as they tend to hang out around those parts. A lot of Italy though is very remote, like farmland and smallholdings. You'd probably get very bored.
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Sept 26, 2024 1:07:07 GMT
There's very cheap properties in the Pyrenees ... large buildings miles from anywhere. Von Lotsov could be Lord of the Manor and ensure we live in comfort and splendour.
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Sept 26, 2024 6:49:39 GMT
Post by Dogburger on Sept 26, 2024 6:49:39 GMT
Don't know if its still on offer but one town in Italy was paying you £30K to move there last year on the condition you renovated the property . There was also a one euro house scheme in another town .
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Sept 26, 2024 8:10:27 GMT
Post by Dan Dare on Sept 26, 2024 8:10:27 GMT
Non-EU nationals purchasing property in an EU country will ordinarily only be able to live in it for up to 180 days in a year. The other six months they'll need to have somewhere else to live. Brits can thank Brexit for that. Not really . If you invest £200,000 they will give you a resident visa or if retiring you can apply for an Italian retirement visa where you need to prove you have the funds to look after yourself . There are basically no bars if you have the money and to be honest you are not going to move abroad unless you have , are you ? Sort of how it worked before the EU started making the rules ,other countries have cheaper entry requirements but nearly all countries in the World run similar schemes some costing more than others . You're referring to the Italian Elective Residence Visa which is good for 12 months and can be renewed for a further two years. It doesn't give permanent residence. In order to qualify you have to have a minimum and stable 'passive' income i.e. a pension and you have to have already purchased a residence and have private medical insurance.
According to this source around 2/3 of applications are refused.
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Sept 26, 2024 8:48:06 GMT
Post by piglet on Sept 26, 2024 8:48:06 GMT
You are right Ripley, doing it all in one go might be a mistake, renting to begin with would be better, having an escape route is wise. In my twenties i was a regular visitor to my family in Italy, i got a working smatter of the lingo, i could restart, i lost contact when my mother and aunt died.
Around Cividale and into the mountains would be good, with civilisation near by, shops bar etc, im not sure i would miss human company, good company is very rare, not because i have special needs, but because we are all so different. No matter where you are, if you are lonely then you seek out company. Drinking the superb wine from there, eating boiled eggs and playing chess all evening sounds fine to me. Football screens are on in cividale, sky italia exists.
The important thing would be being next to nature, the starry sky at night, books, the internet, maybe there might be a lonely lady that walks on the mountainside, .....till upstairs calls me home.
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Sept 26, 2024 9:19:17 GMT
Post by piglet on Sept 26, 2024 9:19:17 GMT
Can i be granted yet another life? I have had many, lives within lives, in four different cities, lovers, wife, children, houses, jobs, holidays, changes of all sorts, that i have known Fegg Hayes, Tynsley, Newtown, Sparkhill, greyness, bad places, good places, people, and survived it all. To have another life, next to god, can it really happen, as the day comes to an end.
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Sept 26, 2024 10:38:37 GMT
Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 26, 2024 10:38:37 GMT
Don't know if its still on offer but one town in Italy was paying you £30K to move there last year on the condition you renovated the property . There was also a one euro house scheme in another town . You can get a free house if you live in Japan. The economics of Japan is so weird. They see when buying somewhere that they are buying the land. Houses are to them temporary constructions on that land. So someone might buy a house, knock it down and build a more modern one and live in it for 20 years and then another will be built even more modern than that. The cost of the land is the lion's share of the price, so they see an old house like driving an old car. In Japn there are parts which are contryside where there are no jobs anymore so people have simply left and they have left their houses behind. the deal is a foreigner can come along and babysit their house so it is looked after. I mean they are very nice houses as well with Japanese woodwork throughout and very Japanese looking. In Britain a house like that in a posh area could easily fetch a million quid. All you have to do for it is keep it clean and in good repair. |
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Post by Dogburger on Sept 26, 2024 18:28:21 GMT
Not really . If you invest £200,000 they will give you a resident visa or if retiring you can apply for an Italian retirement visa where you need to prove you have the funds to look after yourself . There are basically no bars if you have the money and to be honest you are not going to move abroad unless you have , are you ? Sort of how it worked before the EU started making the rules ,other countries have cheaper entry requirements but nearly all countries in the World run similar schemes some costing more than others . You're referring to the Italian Elective Residence Visa which is good for 12 months and can be renewed for a further two years. It doesn't give permanent residence. In order to qualify you have to have a minimum and stable 'passive' income i.e. a pension and you have to have already purchased a residence and have private medical insurance.
According to this source around 2/3 of applications are refused.
Thats good , keeps out those who cant look after themselves , sort of thing we should have here . |
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Visiting is always pleasant, but living there is a much more complex experience, and one you should consider very carefully before uprooting.
