These Beautiful Italian Towns Will Pay You to Move There if You Work Remotely

May 17, 2021 299

BY: Andy Corbley

As the COVID-19 malaise slowly lifts around the world, governments are looking for quick and innovative ways to kickstart their travel industries. Portugal is building a remote worker village on the stunning island of Madeira, and now two Italian towns are paying 50% of the rental costs for remote workers looking to swap their current digs for a slice of medieval Italian rusticity.

Rieti in the Lazio region, and Santa Fiora in Tuscany, are both having problems keeping young people in town, and the populations of both communes are stagnating. Maybe for coiffured Italian youths the lure of medieval walls, renaissance piazzas, and baroque palaces set amid vineyards, rivers, local markets, and chestnut forests doesn’t find purchase, but for most Americans it’s the quintessential vision of European life.

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SOURCE: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

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