12 Best Places to Live or Retire in Southern Italy 

Cheapest place to live in Italy is Calabria. In Scalea you can buy 3 rooms apt for 30k. A villa for less than 80k. Wonderful sea and weather conditions 👌

I lived in Taormina for 3 years after shifting from Giardini Naxos just below. I loved it. Sicily will always be my 2nd home.

From Malta, we retired to Sicily, Frigintini to be exact. Beautiful countryside, beautiful people, great food and only 30 minutes from Pozzallo. Bought a villa with land for the price of 2 bedroom, shell form apartment in Gozo! We love it!

Thanks Antonio. I’ve been there and you’re right, it’s beautiful! I’ve been as far south as Siracusa and as far north as the north end of lago di como…many places in between. Italy is diverse and amazing. Looking forward to your next video! Buona fortuna

Che meraviglia ❤ luogo bellissimo

Se posso dare un consiglio: se se scegliete di vivere in Italia o in un qualsiasi altro posto del mondo per prima cosa dovete imparare la lingua. Per "imparare" non intendo solo studiarla a scuola ma assimilare la lingua in modo tale da poter pensare spontaneamente in quella lingua, poter ridere quando qualcuno fa una battuta. Quando ci si sente parte di una cultura e di una lingua si può vivere felici in un paese straniero altrimenti ci si sentirà davvero soli. Detto questo se cercate un posto con sole e mare, costo della vita basso e poca criminalità e infrastrutture decenti il meglio che può venirmi in mente è il sud della Sardegna. Per accedere gratuitamente al Servizio Sanitario Nazionale dovete fare una di queste cose 1 diventare cittadini italiani (dopo 5 anni di residenza) 2 svolgere un'attività economica e pagare le tasse in Italia 3 sposarsi

Great video !

My dream is to live in southern Italy. I had a friend from capaci.

Thank you !

Scalea is awesome, live full time !

You are absolutely correct. I retire in 2 months at age 62. I take pretty good care of myself, but I can tell you every freaking joint in my body is making itself felt. A decade ago my joints were fine. Travel and enjoy life while you’re still young enough to enjoy it. Retirement is wasted on old people!

I would love to move to Southern Italy

Thank you for sharing 🙏💖 A good informarion - I have visited Tuscany So lots of places in Italy that will be good to stay after retiremnet.. Best Wishes 😇 ⛄⛄⛄⛄🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Well done!

Nicely made video, thank you. I have though, to share my own perception, and that is, that beyond all those charming places and great affordability- why would anyone (who is north American for that matter) choose to retire in a place, charming as it may be, far away from his/her heritage, culture, family... what about language barriers and mastering a new language at an old age (and I know Italian can be tricky, especially the southern dialects, as I speak it relatively well); what about proximity to Medical facilities; what about proximity to major airports, what about cultural events and social activities; and mainly what about residency and the ability to actually legally stay there more than 90 days (tourist Visa to Schengen, all Schengen countries, that is you cant just pop up to another European union country to renew your visa). For me, there are many factors in retirement, some of them are pure technical/legislatives/comfort. And BTW - are those quoted 1,000 Euros monthly expenses includes rent? That means rent there is pretty cheap. I rather just visit these places, instead of the challenges of permanently residing there (and BTW, as a side note, Hotels there are not that cheap, just the hotels will cost more than 1,000/month, much more)

Great video . Thank you for sharing . My late fathers side of my family are from Bari and Naples. I would love to move to the southern region and live my later years of life there. Im 66 and keep hiping to win big lol with the Powerball lottery and move there. Anyway Grazie mille for sharing. Ciao

I’d like to retire in a house with a garden, those Italian cities seemed to have no houses, only apartments

Thanks ❤…..Taormina- Palermo - Cagliari,Sardinya- Bari 👍

A very well composed tour with good information! I am going back to Italy next year and looking for a place to live… maybe not Naples

Taormina is stunning, I would love to go visit

Cagliari- cal ya ree, please!

I lived in Italy for three years. Busilingo, near Verona, just an hour or so from Venice. It's a really nice place to visit but... I wouldn't want to live there again.😊

In south Italy there are many greek towns. History, see, good food, nice people. They speak greek with many ancient greek elements in the language. It is really unique

My family is from Corigliano Calabria

Timestamps, please!

MAGNA GRECIA

My dream to retire to Italy, but the criteria is unobtainable for most

The biggest barrier that I see here is the language for most older adults for whom learning a new language is not as easy. One will need to be somewhat fluent in the native language so they can communicate, somewhat effectively, for daily living including for daily shopping, going to a doctor's visit, dealing with legal issues and just getting oneself understood when in a difficult or dire situation, especially when an urgent action is a huge factor!

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Molise is a region very beautiful and cheap but only few foreign people now it

Southern Italy: where 'retirement' rhymes with 'relaxation'. Time to trade hustle for pasta, traffic for beaches. La dolce vita awaits!" 🍝🏖

There is no mention of access to hospitals and doctors.

Ora vivo a Napoli. Ho viaggiato in tutta l'Europa occidentale e il posto nel quale vorrei vivere è Coimbra in Portogallo ❤ (e poi tornerei a viaggiare in tutta l'Europa occidentale)

Humidity sure would be good to know among all options.

Cost of living is not very high in Northern Italy. At least not compared to the US.

Does anyone know where in Southern Italy is affordable place to live with low crime area and more beautiful beaches and excellent food? Any suggestions?

How quickly can I learn Italian??

Puglia is pronounced “poolia”.

is there anywhere in Italy an existing British Expat Community??

My ancestors are from Reggio Calabria, coming to the U.S. to escape lack of opportunity in the early 1900s. It would be ironic to return there to retire. I lived in Rome when I was young so I picked up conversational Italian but for English speakers, I will tell you that Italian is the easiest language of all to learn. It's like clearly spoken Spanish so easy to distinguish what the speakers are saying.

Napoli

I lived in Gaeta Italy for three years 1996 to 1999, no thank you! Italy has a lot of charming features and its architecture and history are amazing…… That’s where it ends. Corruption, half ass is good enough, everything is Domani Domani Domani. Sure the food is delicious, and the weather, pleasant, but the dirt filth corruption is just too much! My wife couldn’t even pay the electric bill without handing a few extra lira over, it was sad. Sexism abounds My wife was nothing as far as the Italians were concerned. These are just true facts experienced while stationed there for three years with the Navy living out in the community. The other thing I think you’re really missing is that being that far south is a day and a half’s train ride north or a airplane fair north to Germany, France, or England. It’s not like living in Frankfurt, or Paris, or Belgium, where cities are 2, 3 or four hours away by train

Please make sure you don’t ruin the prices for everyone with excessive tipping and overpaying. Seen enough of that “you deserve a tip” nonsense in Asia, where tipping is not customary but gets brought in by American tourists.

FOJEW? WTF?

the unemployment rate is NOT high: everybody from these regions is a public employee in the rest of Italy😂. That's why Italy Is in a bad situation

These cities aren't cheapest because there aren't big commercial center and buy for eating and clothes Is very expensive , the houses there aren't cheapest near the sea , need tò buy away from the coast

The biggest problem with Italy is that there Italians there,so to avoid completely

Living your retirement years in a country that is not yours, completely deprived of your roots, immersed in a different culture, in relationship with a language whose nuances you will never understand and far from your loved ones and friends of all life, is absolutely one of the most infinitely sad things a man can do. I pity those who make this unfortunate choice.

Would you really move to Italy and not learn to speak italian if you dont speak some already …?

Bova Marina RC, soon ...

high unemployment means high crime rate

Basically all the southern provence you are telling

Living your retirement years in a country that is not yours, completely deprived of your roots, immersed in a different culture, in relationship with a language whose nuances you will never understand and far from your loved ones and friends of all life, is absolutely one of the most infinitely sad things a man can do. I pity those who make this unfortunate choice.