Family fixes home in ghost-town lab & tells others to follow 

That is so true, no worries about traffice..etc. I want a kitty and dog and let them live naturally and not caged in a house (prison)

@@josephalexandrerothschild3642 I agree. That's the only way I'll have a pet.

The puppy is soooo adorable, how much fun he would have exploring that place. I love how he followed the people around, helping to show the beautiful village. Good little dogger 😍😍

Fart me a rainbow

@@ZebbMassiv tf lol

come si chiama il borgo?

CiaoBella how can I purchase a house there my friend ?

@@ombra306 Preferisco non dire su internet perché vivo da solo. Il mio borgo è in Lunigiana. :-)

@@latinlingo44 There are many small villages (hamlet/borgo) in Italy. First you visit Italy, then travel enough to know the area you want to live in. Then visit the villages. When you find a village you like, find a realtor (agent) in the nearest town to the village, and they will show you what is available. Tell them your price range and that you want a house to renovate. Also get the agent to explain to you what the regulations and costs are to buy a house in Italy as a foreigner. Good luck. :-)

@@ciaobella8963 Simple as that! BRILLIANT!!! :D :D :D

YEEEEEES. A sincere thanks!

And he doesn't repeat himself as if we are idiots ,,,,, so refreshing

Agreed. Simplicity, 'no filters'

Well said!

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Nothing distracts you from what's presented.

Amen sister

just watched parts of it. that was disgusting! thanks for that ;)

@@kaththerath that was my initial thought too but when you think about creating something for yourself, and by yourself, it really doesn't matter if someone finds it disgusting. have a good one.

I prefer to live close to work. But it's interesting to hear about other options.

What is a Tommy Hilfiger?

I don't think any modern pleasure can compete!

More like an espresso but that’s a tiny detail. I just wonder how they sustain themselves. If I could find a way to sustain my family there, I would consider it. My wife would surely love it but my teenage son would never go anywhere without fast internet.

Imagine six feet of snow, more in the forecast, the winter still young . . .

Blah Blah the nature is quite breathtaking I’ll give you that.

@Jay Smith beacuse they had not been maintained in 200+ years the house you live in will collapse in 200+ years if you disappear

This is the absolute best thing I have ever seen, as far as house & home goes . A7la bel beyte

Paul of England every single day.

The thing you run into in the states is all the regulations with power. You can pretty much skirt around the issue of water and sewer with a well and a septic tank if you are out from all the built up homes. You have to get the permit to get a power source. We are on a plot of 5 acres and we were able to convert a cinderblock home that was run down and we also plastered the walls on the inside. It is possible to pretty much do everything yourself....you just have to have the motivation. The power is probably the hardest obstacle...but there is no reason you can't do things with a gasoline generator and solar....you just have to weigh the cost.

@@MoonBeamLight where are you? I keep looking at boats and cob house building. Burrows and tree houses. Don't wanna do it alone but am getting to the stage where I just can't abide society any longer. I want to live simply and in peace.

@@77Tadams it's pretty much the same here in England. Regulations galore. There's a way around everything really though :-) most laws are only acts.. I keep wishing for a boat and sail around the coast looking for quiet spots. Maybe have a few shelters. Feels like the whole system is about to implode. I want out.

I’m in.

I don't. It's annoying.

When he wants to elaborate he feels more comfortable in Italian. It’s not a problem, as long as we understand.

He switches for mor details because his English is not good enough sometimes when learning a new language it’s easier and quicker we don’t know how long he has known how to speak English. I think it’s amazing that with the switch its intertwining 2 cultures

@@Mark.Watson really? ....as a multi lingual family we switch languages while conversing. I feel English language is incomplete....cuz some words we can't find in English or how to express in English , we try to find similar meaning on how to express it. Sometimes it's not easy. And we always end up saying "how do I say this in English" 😂

He speaks in English to answer the comments of the lady who speaks American English.

SirLongshank64 Thank you for your service sir.

@Conexus X18 Thanks for the Geography lesson but I was stationed on the mainland,

@@orang3096 What Service? You didn't even ask what for. How blindly trusting can someone be that being stationed somewhere is good?

@@jl7887 pretty good for European allies considering the Pax Americana that has kept them safe for decade upon decade. American blood, European soil.

Actually, you can, there were municipalities in Italy - I remember looking at some village in Sardegna, about two klicks inland from the northern coast - that offered houses for sale for 1€, on the provision that you would rebuild and live in them. I think some of the offers are still up.

I've been in many situations when I was talking to a person in one language and he/she would respond in different. Sometimes it works better :)

I enjoy listening to him, especially with the mixture of the 2 languages.

😂😂

This looks straight out of A Plague Tale

Yes-a

Search for the real truth if you really have less time ...Come to our lord before it's too late ...

No, come to our lord instead. He has beers in the fridge and he's cool with you if you take one

@@naqshnaz7324 If you mean The Lord, I'm already His.

Wtf why people talk about Lord ? we live in modernity and replaced that word with boss or if you mean landlord then use full name.

They're still a fairy tale. And 99% of the reality of restoring a remote place like this is left out of the video.

Live in a small town. Live in one especially as an outsider or newcomer. Live somewhere for a while that has no metropolitan center even remotely close by. Understanding will come when you realize that all the people you encounter (probably all of a hundred people or so) are all the people you will ever see. Imagine for a moment you aren't well liked. Or imagine for a moment that you don't much like them. They have weird habits. Perhaps they smell weird or are ugly to your eyes. Perhaps that applies to you in their eyes. Now imagine growing up never knowing the outside world. Imagine that kid not having internet access, so the bits and pieces he does know about the outside world is garnered through snippets of access to a computer somewhere in a neighboring village or the major town. Put yourself in his shoes, and imagine the ache that is undefined and impossible to ignore, knowing deep down, somewhere, that there is "more" out there than your perfect, idyllic little village home. When people who feel that ache leave their small towns, they rarely find their way back, and even when they do, it's rarer indeed when they come back to stay. There needs to be a unifying draw to keep a place like that alive. Families working together and banding together to keep each other well fed, alive, and productive. People abandon places like that because the food disappears, the government (either foreign or domestic) steps in and makes life harsher than it needs to be, or the place becomes boring and harder than it would be in a simple modern city. Personally, I would love to live in a place like that so long as there was access to internet and access to electricity. I can imagine spending my days grinding metal, making tools and pieces of art, repairing my house and the houses of others, growing food and storing it, and creating something that will last long after I'm gone. But I live in a city, so this kind of fantasy comes naturally to a person like me. I can't imagine doing the same thing in my city now, and I have to figure that any person having lived in such a village their whole life will be having the same fantasy but from the opposite direction.

I visited one of such mountain villages in southern France a few years ago, and much of abandoning them had to do with a lack of basic necessities and services such as electricity, running water, and healthcare. Much of them also became ghost towns after World War One, when so many men had died that the villages' populations became too small to stay self-sustaining.

@@brigandboy1425 I guess it looks idyllic to someone like me who was born, raised and continue to live in a big, busy city where everyone is caught up in the rat race. Where violent crimes and theft are just a norm. Where the noise and pollution is just a part of everyday life. I supppose it's a case of wanting what you can't have. If I had grown up in such a place no doubt I'd be itching to leave for a big city. Abandoned towns like these are good places for people in their middle age to settle into but like you say they will have kids who might eventually want out. If more middle age, middle class people moved into these places then the community would be re-born and perhaps if they have families the sense of isolation for the young people might not be so great. With progress in 4g and 5g technology access to the internet and so on is becomming ever easier and also progress in 'off-grid' living and renewable energy technology.

I think most young people wouldnt like it. Its amazing when you are already an adult, specially in a commited relationship already, but no child and specially no teen wants to be isolated, they want fun and new experiences, not this beautiful calm environment. When he grows up though he will have the most gorgeous place awaiting for him to be able to finally appreciate, specially knowing that his parents worked so hard for it.

Because they're REMOTE & very hard to modernize - that's why. Most people can't handle camping for a weekend let alone living away from all the conveniences they grew up with. And its an expensive & very long venture to take on - let alone dealing with the regulations & bureaucracy involved in these projects.

Sam Duck yeah cycling there would be a treasure as long as no camps with fighting age males rolling around-

Welcomd to Italy ;-)

I would love to see more of their beautiful place,now in 2022.

It's key to remember these villages are not relics of the past. For thousands of years settlements evolved and looked similar, it's only the departure of life which made them die and there's enough ruins worship. Settlements were created to be lived in; reviving them should be encouraged everywhere. Traditional building methods are in essence settlements made by local materials suited to the climate. This tradition shouldn't stop or be viewed as ancient history. The departure of this long continued tradition is an invention of the 21st century.

@@rich_jg5705 we are a bit smug in our thinking that modern is just so much better yet this way survived for much much longer. Who knows we may very well have to go back to this and who will have the skills to do so?

@@2bczar4u You are right! I think that we need to go back to live communal lives, start connecting with the our roots so to understand what we need as humans to live happy and meaningful lives. People need more simple life surrounded by nature. Also economically, we must downsize as we are living totally over the limits of this planet. Our needs match with the planets needs, so there is hope still for all of us!

@@SatumainenOlento It wouldn't be so bad if coastal cities would stop dumping all their trash in the ocean. They passed laws in cali about straws but refuse to stop dumping tons of trash in the ocean everyday! Regarding usage of resources, food is as cheap as it is world wide because of modern farming practices and GMO food. We can grow 10 times what we used to be able to in the same acreage. As for oil, we seem to have discovered enough sources to last another few hundred years. As for air quality, laws have mostly cleaned that up....unless you live in china. Even india is making the effort that china refuses. The usa is the third most populated country in the world and we ARE doing our part. China needs to step it up. As for consumption of wood, clearing of forests etc....You might want to talk to brazil. All the other south american countries have mostly cleared the amazon from their lands. Brazil owns the majority of the amazon now and they are clearing it wholesale. There is literally nothing we can do about it without taking over their country. As for us, old growth forests are off limits. We have tree farming practices now that I have seen in use where I live. The logging company owns several hundred acres of land and replants after clearing. They have figured out that it is cheaper than buying more land to clear. The animals on the land are in no danger, the rivers and creeks on the land never get polluted, and the trees get cut about 5 years before their natural deaths. Trees are now the most renewable resource we have.

@R.A. Andrews Also requires license to rebuild (difficult to obtain by the normal citizens there), labour (which came free to him and he didn’t pay a cent for), cost (which sure as hell wouldn’t have been as little as 25000 Euros for folks that don’t/didn’t have government positions such as the documentee, minus labour) and solutions to other problems related to uncleared mountainous locations (such as linked drainage systems and seasonal road clearing/repairs that their government unfortunately doesn’t provide for that area)...

Yeah, crazy dangerous.

But at least it would look awesome if you fell down those beautiful stairs! Lol

Glenn Howden - stairs are scary with or without a handrail... when you have to use a cane. Single story for me please. But it's still beautiful.

@@echoedinnocence Yes it would make for some good RU-vid content for sure.

The only thing I didn't like was the lack of stair rails, and nothing at the top to prevent you falling. (Not wise with a small child). Otherwise it is fantastic. ❤

Only the ‘right’ people should take over these lovely places. Meaning= those who love and appreciate culture,history and handcrafts. Great video.

Until you get used to it, like everywhere ^^

@@BertrandBarraud If you have poor imagination you get used to it, like everywhere. If you have poor imagination you'll be like everyone. But if you not - each season will be magically different for you, because nature has the ability to change. And this village is in the middle of *Nature* .

Thankfully he didn't see the village as being 'dead'. He just had the good fortune and ability to see its current restoration as 'breathing new life' in it to make it stand proudly once more. What a sweet family.

Now if only this could be done in Detroit!

Maybe we'll meet there one day... May your wish come true!

Same here! Rural towns and in the 'gully' i was a flower child but ive been trapped in a house for so long im dying to get some land

I think you wish you were that dog lol.

People are suffering so much? Back then life expectancy was 30-40 years max. You could die from a fly bite or any kind of infection. Don't forget about the constant wars in Europe. We live in the best time of human history so far....

Lazar Mitev cancer is bringing it back to those levels with all the poison s in our globalist society which is crumbling around us,I knew many who have died young,cleaner simpler lifestyles where u produce and consume most of your own needs seems healthier and fitter also ,what mankind was intended to do before corporations took over .

Lazar Mitev just because we have longer life expectancy doesn’t mean it is meaningful or purposeful. It is good to have an enlightened society verses working at a job that is meaningless or buying stupid shit you don’t need. Also consider the fact that people are not eating food that has nutrition and most sit in-front of a screen all day. That is not good. There are great things about living now....this video proves it. Modern married to the old.

77Tadams Start practicing a community at "Second Life" first...

TheYah00netstar what is second life?

Asante Freeman Qin

Maybe you can support this project or other projects, similar to this.

Beautiful area, and love the stones

Isn't this such a great story and an admirable endeavor? I love this video.

@@CarolynsRVLife Yes it is

Wait till you hear there's no Internet. No supermarket. No sensible sanitation. No central heating. No jobs around. But lots of bugs and critters to share company with.

@@clray123 Sounds like a dream! The first part anyhow! And the bugs and critters can be dealt with easily enough with certain plants and vegetation. :D

@jamrockprincess Yeah, the sort of dream you wake up from shivering in cold sweat and wishing the night was over.

What stops you?

@@tictoc5443 probably the price "for houses is more complicated but a ruin can cost between 6000€ to 20000€ (plus taxes)."

Because spanish and italian are both Romance language. I'm Filipino and I can understand him around 20% only. (I dont speak spanish or italian :) )

LoL - the government is part of the reason why these villages are abandoned - and he is part of the local government .... that's why he got permits where no average citizen would ....

Fact check please.@@Hippabellita1

@Bebe Oh my gush exactly. Give Italy 10 more years they will see what and who they welcome in.

theres good government and bad government. the good tend to be small towns, the bad tend to be mega cities with corruption

Put migrants in those villages and make them wear medieval clothing.

Hello Asria

Would have cost you less too!

I read not long ago about an Australian that bought a castle for $1 in France or Italy, I cant remember.

@@carpediem8752 yeah, some people sell large, ancient proprieties for like one Euro, but then, after you buy them you gotta renovate them, wich can cost you millions of Euros

nope wherever you are, leave europe alone

@@lorenzomontagna7654 They do it here in the U.S. as well during urban rehabilitation projects to make certain "undesirable" areas nicer and more attractive. My cousin bought a house from the city for $1, but was given a pretty strict rehab schedule that had to be adhered to in order to own the house. Unfortunately, due to some personal issues a while into the project, he was not able to complete the project and had to forfeit the deed.

Where in Romania? I'd be interested too

Unde in romania? Casa de lemp presupun

@@WRMRanch In the USA? How old was that building? 50 years? We are talking here about Houses at least 500 years old.

@@WRMRanch It's not cheaper to build from scratch when the House is only 50 Years old. Where I live Houses that are over 100 Years often get renovated, and not just for esthetics.

WOW ...how lovely

Hello Sylvia

It comes naturally when you have no money and the only choice is to continue acting like a hippy or panic outright.

There is something so powerfully rewarding about doing it with your hands and taming such a beast yourself as opposed to paying for it.

@@clray123 💯

Have a look at the castle guedelon project, theyre building their own medieval castle using only traditional methods, building sourcing of the materials come from the land its on. And theyve built so much infrastructure to help.

Arent u the guy that covered africa with sweetpotatos

Hello Maryann

Thanks!