We have been watching Italy as well and even practicing Italian. It is a bargain there at the moment. Right now, we live in a very expensive part of the country with a bunch of lefties and “new arrivals” who are destroying the state.
I was in the lumber industry for almost ten years before I was hired by a fire department and started living the easy life of a government employee.
We have been following a few YouTubers that promote villas in Italy. Some are actual licensed real estate agents that moved there from Great Britain.
Here is one:
He sells houses in Abruzzo. He is from the UK. A lot of them need work and are in all these small villages.
There is another guy who calls his channel One take Italian Property Tours. He is from UK too.
He tends to promote much more expensive properties in Tuscany , Umbria and occasionally up north. Some of them are incredibly beautiful. Places that at one point cost well over 1MM EU.
There is another women who does videos of houses in Molise and Piedmont. She is from South America originally. I don’t recall her channel name.
Just recently I started getting videos on my feed from Spain. Houses/villas out in the central dry area. It looks like the places they probably filmed the Spaghetti Westerns.
Similar looking landscape to the SW US. Not quite as arid though.
Beautiful brand new appearing up to date villas with pools for $249K-$289K