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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Italy.  Buy the $1 homes, put in another 100K to fix it. Then work remote or live on SS.  I would do that if I was White.

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I've seen youtube videos on it.  It appears to be too good to be true.  First, houses are not 1 euro, it's a marketing message.  Places that aren't complete dumps where you'd be camping if you want to fix it up are tens of thousands of Euro.  Then cost of labor/materials to fix them is more there and things are slow.  If you move to a nearly abandoned Italian small town where there are no young workers you will have to be very handy yourself to fix things up.  Anything that gets better with expat community gets immediately more expensive and no longer a huge bargain while still having a lot more limited access to amenities compared to better developed areas. Some people just get tired after a while and give up and sell back for whatever loss.  There are some success stories too, but these are some really hard working and persistent people who do not have jobs and make it their life. 
Honestly, you will have a much easier time buying cheap rural dilapidated house in picturesque setting or in some small town in the USA with a main street.[/quote]

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