Get $ 10,000 to Move Your Family to Italy
Why spend only three months in Italy when you can live there indefinitely (and receive several thousand dollars for it)?
The small town in northern Italy offers the ultimate incentive and gives curious participants up to € 9,000, or roughly US $ 10,000, over three years in exchange for a move. This proposal is intended to stimulate the local economy and increase its tiny aging population.
“Our population has declined from 7,000 residents in the early 1900s to nearly 1,500 as people left in search of work in Turin’s large factories,” Giovanni Bruno Mattiet, Mayor of Locana, Italy, told CNN Travel . “Our school faces the risk of closure every year due to the small number of students. I can’t let that happen. ”
Initially, the offer was extended to foreigners living in Italy and Italians themselves, but the city’s dwindling population (where 40 deaths and just 10 births occur annually) required a larger audience and probably a much younger one.
Lokana is estimated to have a population of just over 2,000 in an area of about 50 square miles, so you don’t have to worry about traffic. According to CNN Travel, it is a city known primarily for its mountain reserve and outdoor activities such as rock climbing and swimming.
But if the offer seems tempting, keep in mind that $ 10,000 spread over the years is unlikely to cover the flight there, let alone the cost of living, taxes, and buying a home to start with. There is also no specific mention of how long you will have to live there (although three years seems likely).
And since there is no free money, there are several preconditions for this offer as well. Your family must have a child (you must not give birth there, you just must have a family ready to move) and already have a salary of at least 6,000 euros or just under $ 7,000. The sentence doesn’t specifically mention whether you will have to quit your job to move, but if you don’t work from home, what kind of work could you find in a city with such a tough economy?
If you’re a freelancer, a small Italian town might be the perfect place, but for the rest of us who report to the office five days a week, this seems like an offer that (unfortunately) we’ll have to turn down.