A seven-room farmhouse in Japan's folklore capital for three thousand dollars, a license to catch a river spirit, and the aerospace engineer who quit airplanes and took a town from ten visitors a year to four hundred... We're aiming for short and sweet this week
Naro, Agrigento relaunched its one-euro house scheme with a verified portal and a bank guarantee. Plus twelve American towns paying up to $18,900 to move. We spent this week on what it means to be 'from' somewhere. Considering this newsletter is addressed to people contemplating relocation,
A €70,000 house with no heating near the door to the underworld, an €85,000 stone house with no electricity on Calypso's island, a €70,000 ruin on Ithaca, and more... The Odyssey opens on a relatable note for anyone who has ever moved to a faraway
On a London train, for the interview series Subway Takes, the photographer Misan Harriman states: "Expat is a racist as hell term." His supporting argument follows: people who move from richer countries to poorer ones get called expats, and people who make the same move in the other
A ¥2.9M farmhouse in Japan's emptiest prefecture, a live €1 house program in Rubia Daniels's Sicilian town, a hideout behind the Cinque Terre, and an alpine province that will grant you up to €100,000 to rebuild a mountain house. Two articles crossed our desk
Four stone houses on Spain's pilgrim routes from €93,000 — a medieval house in Mondoñedo, a restored complex where the Camino passes by the front door, and more. Last year, the official count from the cathedral’s Pilgrim’s Office of people who walked the Camino into the