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Same here, I have not been there, but heard good things :) And if you buy a place 300k or more you get legal residence, which is a good thing to have as a back up in case the situation in US were to become untannable sometime in the future...

Oh. I didn't know about the residence thing. Not a bad deal. There are houses in Italian villages they are almost giving away. Might be an option too :)