I'm right behind you in this journey. I will be taking notes!

I think a good deal is region Marche. More expensive than south but not as the north. Beautiful landscape, similar Tuscany but not crowded.

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Very useful video. I'm actually interested in Abruzzo as an area to live, although not visited yet. Varied landscape, coastline, wine making, tasty cuisine, near to Rome, cheap property. Also an airport at Pescara. What put you off about it? You missed out Molise, by the way.

Excellenet run down!

Interesting video. Look forward to your travel adventures and how you weigh up the regions as to the best place to buy your home base.

Lol i am in Arizona now too. Planning on retiring in Italy🎉

Good point - Proximity to an international airport! I’d want easy access for sure. And proximity to Home Depot. ; ) I liked the overview of the regions, it helped me understand the land better. Gonna be cool!!!

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I’m interested in Umbria. The northern cities around Milan and Turin are intriguing and offer great culture but it is the warmth of the locals that I’m looking for. I also took a good look at LeMarche but difficult to get to. Happy trails!

Why did you skip Molise?

You capture the 'Zen' of riding perfectly. So focussed, in the moment and in the elements. Italy is a riding dream. Each area has its own incredible beauty. Dolce fare niente.....life without a care!!! Great food and culture. Ive just discovered ypur chanrl as i plan my own move to Italy....thankyou for posting.....wonderful stuff.

Your first video showed up in my recommendations yesterday. I'm a new subscriber and trying to go through your videos in order. You may have addressed this in one of the videos I have not seen yet, but is the 7% flat tax important to you in your search considering you may make Italy your primary residence at some point?

🇮🇹😏😏😏At the beginning, explains the Italian Geographical Society, there were the Provinces, a typical legacy of a Risorgimento that had rejected federalism. The unitary state had been modeled on the Napoleonic-style centralistic organization with 59 territorial divisions of optimal size to be able to be crossed in a day's ride. Then came the Regions, which should have put an end to that model by starting the season of autonomy and decentralization. Instead the Provinces began to rise like whipped cream. At the birth of the Regions, in 1970, there were 94, three more than in 1947. Today there are 110. And with them the Unions of Municipalities, mountain communities, hill communities, municipal districts, districts, industrial development areas, tourist areas, Employment centers Not to mention the inextricable tangle of intermediate bodies between Municipalities, Provinces and Regions: from local health authorities to the thousands of local public companies, to optimal territorial areas, to reclamation consortia, even to educational institutions. And autonomy has turned into a frenzy. Overlapping of skills, duplication of functions, multiplication of responsibilities without anyone being truly responsible. All with five Regions (or six, considering the autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano) with such special status as to effectively protect them from any central conditioning. Such a complicated jumble that today no one is even able to say exactly how many public administrations there are in Italy: a recent survey estimated them at a number close to 46 thousand. But we have not yet been able to go beyond a simple estimate. Which says a lot about the disorder produced by this uncontrolled superfetation of administrative levels. The reform of Title V of the Constitution desired by the centre-left in 2001 then contributed to making mayonnaise go mad once and for all, decentralizing powers often in an irrational way: suffice it to say that each Region could draw up its own budget with its own accounting principles, and that among the matters of competition legislative work had also been put in place between the State and the Regions. As if companies in Lazio could have different rules on contracts relating to the same professions from those in Campania. It is no coincidence, therefore, that right from the beginning of the new century public spending began to increase exponentially: in ten years regional budgets doubled, without the growth in spending in the periphery having corresponded to a similar reduction in state spending central. (google translate)

Best region is Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the north east. You are closed to Austria, Slovenia, Venice, the Dolomites, beaches, mountain resorts, lakes, nature, but also history .. Not typical Italian, ( more quiet, never crowded,), people could look " cold" at the beginning, but they are hot inside

Tutte le 20 regioni d 'Italia sono estremamente diverse tra loro perLingua cibo tradizioni,infatti in ognuna di queste si parla una o più lingue diverse ti accorgerai che le città più piccole che spesso i turisti non sanno neanche che esistono sono incredibilmente belle,in qualunque regione sceglierai sarai comunque vicino a mare montagne e straordinarie città d'arte e ribadisco qualunque regione,ricorda L 'Italia e una Nazione in cui coesistono 20 identità estremamente differenti e sicuramente questo è un concetto molto difficile da capire per uno statunitense😊

Consider the earthquakes frequency and severity and also distance from Campi Flegrei. For me those are the most important factors.

Be aware you may not cross some borders in high Alps on winter except if you go through expensive tunnels.... One more reason to not buy in Alps area 🤔

The Actual answer is Anywhere. The 'only' downside is you can't be everywhere at the same time.

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Naples seems far from the rest of Europe…