Debra Coltune spent more than a decade hustling through Las Vegas — navigating gridlocked traffic, juggling motherhood and work as a food critic while trying to keep up with a city that never slows down. Today, her mornings begin with a stroll to a local market where vendors greet her by name and ask about her children and her dogs.
In 2024, Coltune traded Vegas for Carloforte — a village of fewer than 6,000 people on the island of San Pietro, off the southwestern end of Sardinia. She’d visited in 2023 to judge a local tuna festival and fell immediately in love with the landscape, the pace and the sense of calm. So, she moved there with her two children and two poodles, she told CNN.
