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Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result

Allan

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Over the past few years Italian towns have made properties available to foreign investors for peanuts with the understanding the new owners will renovate within a certain time period.

Now the marketing is targeted specifically to Americans who want out of the US due to the election results.

CNN —
While many communities around the world have been wondering what to make of Donald Trump’s presidential re-election, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia has sniffed a potential opportunity.

Like many other places in rural Italy, Ollolai has long been trying to persuade outsiders to move in to revive its fortunes after decades of depopulation. It’s been selling dilapidated houses for as little as one euro — just over a dollar — to sweeten the deal.
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You will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
 
It’s a scam the Italians have been running for decades. The properties are sold for $1 because it would cost a fortune just to make them habitable. They have to market them to dumb foreigners because the Italians know they’re money pits and don’t buy them.
 
Oh..yeah. That's been going on a while. It's also not just broken-down shithole homes:

Also,

Columbu says the village is now offering three tiers of accommodation: Free temporary homes to certain digital nomads, one-euro homes in need of renovations, and ready-to-occupy houses for prices up to 100,000 euros ($105,000).​
 
there isn't a single American going to leave - they're all liars who said they would
 
Napoleon said:
It’s a scam the Italians have been running for decades. The properties are sold for $1 because it would cost a fortune just to make them habitable. They have to market them to dumb foreigners because the Italians know they’re money pits and don’t buy them.
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I've seen articles about Americans who've made it work. They bought in at a higher price point though.

As for "a fortune" this is rural Italy. Trades people aren't that expensive.

It's suitable for maybe retired people who want adventure, slower pace and a lower cost of living with healthcare coverage.

In Italy an American who can prove Italian ancestry is considered Italian under the principle of jure sanguinis and would find citizenship an easy process.
 
Allan said:
Over the past few years Italian towns have made properties available to foreign investors for peanuts with the understanding the new owners will renovate within a certain time period.

Now the marketing is targeted specifically to Americans who want out of the US due to the election results.



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If I spoke Italian. Retirement planning. If the malignant narcissist scumbag piece of shit liar grifter rapist seditionist felon and tax cheat gets the military to deport my wife the Caribbean is calling.
 
IIt might be wise for foreigners wishing to purchase property there to remember that Sardegna, due to underdevelopment and neglect, has a history of brigands engaging in kidnapping for ransom as a means of income.

Not saying it’s likely to happen, but something to keep in mind.

Also, some depopulated towns in the Italian south have been offering incentives for newcomers, both foreign and domestic, with varying degrees of success.
 
Hari Seldon said:
If I spoke Italian.
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That would be very helpful in small village Italy.
Hari Seldon said:
Retirement planning. If the malignant narcissist scumbag piece of shit liar grifter rapist seditionist felon and tax cheat gets the military to deport my wife the Caribbean is calling.
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Barbados would be my choice. Close ties and easy flights from Canada, potable water and off the Hurricane path.
 
Allan said:
What are you talking about? There are almost half a million Americans receiving SS abroad.
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I'm talking about

www.newsweek.com

Full list of celebrities moving abroad after Donald Trump's win

Over the years, a number of stars have declared their intentions to quit the U.S. rather than live under a Trump presidency.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

Barbara Streisand ""I will move," she said. "I can't live in this country if that's … if he became president.""
Cher ""If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].""
Sharon Stone ""I am certainly considering a house in Italy," she told the Daily Mail. "I think that's an intelligent construct at this time.""
Miley Cyrus, who declared in an Instagram post back in 2016: "Honestly f*** this s*** I am moving if this is my president! I don't say things I don't mean!"
Whoopie said she was moving to Canada "for sure this time."
 
venice_ca said:
IIt might be wise for foreigners wishing to purchase property there to remember that Sardegna, due to underdevelopment and neglect, has a history of brigands engaging in kidnapping for ransom as a means of income.
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That kidnapping fad ended in the late 70s.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Just like all the assholes who said similar things when Obama was elected.
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if they said they'd leave if Obama was elected - and didn't - they were liars yes

curious - can you give me names and quotes on the people saying they'd leave if Obama was elected ?
 
stealthycat said:
if they said they'd leave if Obama was elected - and didn't - they were liars yes
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Didn't Trump say we would never see him again if he lost in 2020?
 
Allan said:
That would be very helpful in small village Italy.

Barbados would be my choice. Close ties and easy flights from Canada, potable water and off the Hurricane path.
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St. Lucia.
 
Bok Tuklo said:
You don't know? He is the President-elect. And yet you know what ****ing Cher says?

We can all stop looking. I think we found the reason Harris lost.
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post the quote or don't - its not for me to research it for you

if I had to guess it was in jest/joking and in context it wasn't anything like what the above people said

liberals have a way of lying when they say that someone said something fyi
 
Allan said:
I've seen articles about Americans who've made it work. They bought in at a higher price point though.

As for "a fortune" this is rural Italy. Trades people aren't that expensive.

It's suitable for maybe retired people who want adventure, slower pace and a lower cost of living with healthcare coverage.

In Italy an American who can prove Italian ancestry is considered Italian under the principle of jure sanguinis and would find citizenship an easy process.
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Except if you're old and disabled otherwise I'd be seriously looking into it because my mother's side of the family is Italian and my mother came over on the boat with her parents in the 1920's.
If I was younger and my wife was healthier we'd be thinking of putting the house on the market and retiring in Italy.
Also, rural Italy is hardly wheelchair accessible, so that would definitely be a problem.
 
Mr Person said:
Oh..yeah. That's been going on a while. It's also not just broken-down shithole homes:

Also,

Columbu says the village is now offering three tiers of accommodation: Free temporary homes to certain digital nomads, one-euro homes in need of renovations, and ready-to-occupy houses for prices up to 100,000 euros ($105,000).​
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$105,000 is a bargain!
 
stealthycat said:
there isn't a single American going to leave - they're all liars who said they would
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Even those who leave, will be back in short order. Robert De Niro for instance is not going to stay out ot the U.S. If anyone ought not to be talking about another person being unstable, it's De Niro.
 
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