Sometimes, relocating abroad can feel like a gamble, a leap into the unknown. For Caroline Chirichella, a 36-year-old New Yorker, the move to a quiet corner of central Italy was more than an escape. It meant building a family, buying an affordable home and creating a new life — at a fraction of the cost of her old one.
Tired of the expense and pace of New York City, Chirichella moved in 2014 to Guardia Sanframondi, a little-known village near Naples. Today, happily married to an Italian man, and mom to two children, she says she’s living a perfect life in a town so obscure that even many Italians struggle to place it.
