Goodbye North America: We Moved to Tuscany, Italy and You Won't Believe Our Lives Now!

Respect to the grandfather who took the role of mom and dad raising his granddaughter, whatever the story might be they’re both lucky to have each other

We're an American couple from Los Angeles, CA who moved to Tuscany in 2017. We were in our 20's and decided that we wanted to completely change our lives. Now almost 7 years later we have bought a seaside villa in Tuscany and our in the process of renovating it into our dream home. It hasn't been easy but we wouldn't have changed it for the world! Now we have our 2 month old beautiful baby and a villa that's half renovated haha. Feel free to join us on this journey!

The grandfather and his grand daughter story really made me smile. What a beautiful story and a beautiful gift to her. Amazing.

Loved every one of their stories, but the retired police officer from Houston Texas, and his very young granddaughter, whom he is now raising fully on his own, were poignant, heartfelt, and very special--blessings to them all as their lives unfold and a new chapter is written for them in Italia!

Thank God I married an Italian, a brilliant (beautiful) gal from Naples; forty years later, with two grown children, we are still madly in love...and we spend a lot of time in Italy, and love it! Family, friends, a no-stress life, remarkable culture, food from heaven, and the cafe lifestyle make Italy my favorite place on earth. In Italy, you don’t need a watch…the church bells will let you know, if you even care. Simply perfetto!

Hello to everyone. I'm North-Italian, living in Liguria on seaside. I can say the best part of Italy is between Toscana and Umbria. Every small town is like a museum (look inside the churchs), food and wine is excellent everywhere. More important, every small city is old, not build for cars but, everything you need is at walking distance.

Dreck and his grandbaby’s segment made me emotional. He has given her such a gift. I hope they remain happy ❤

All the vids about living abroad should address rent, health care, transportation, cost of living, taxes, etc. We all get that Italy is beautiful and homes are less expensive.

I am so in love with Italy I wish I could do this same thing. I’ve dreamed of moving to Italy most of my adult life. ❤kudos to the folks who are able to do it.

I live in Viterbo and it is the best decision I ever made. Italy teaches you to slow down and live.

As an italian I can relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed by the bureaucracy. Huge respect to all the people who took the leap of faith and moved to another country and are open to learn a new language and culture. Hope you'll doing fine🤍

I can't imagine the culture shock of going from Houston texas as a cop to Tuscany. Cant even imagine it. But congrats my man. You were a cop in houston, you deserve a retirement

Sandi got it right exactly. I’ve said it so many times, it doesn’t make sense but every time I land in Italy, it feels like I’m arriving home. This place has a hold on me and I will keep going back until I have the money to make it permanent ❤

What a gorgeous grandpa, taking care and rising grandaughter. Congratulations!

The grandfather is a great guy. You can tell he cares about his granddaughter and wants her to be independent. Which she absolutely will be in Italy, but not so much in Houston.

This is just a reminder to people who are not rich and watch this. This is how rich foreigners live and it's far from reality even for Italians. The majority does not live like this in Italy. They also chose specifically places like Tuscany to film this because it's unique/famous and also not a lot of people live there. Northern Italy let's say the Po Valley is relatively rich and most populated but Industrial, the weather is also not so great throughout the year it's mostly flat land and there is a lot of pollution. The Alps are touristic and those places mostly live off sport tourism. If you go south from Rome it gets very Mediterranean which is nice but the living standard drops visibly.

As a Canadian expat living in Spain, I quite enjoyed this program. There seems to be lots of North Americans who have taken the plunge to relocate overseas. I have been the happiest myself since moving to Southern Spain.

The grandfather story was absolutely magnificent!

I was in USA a couple of times..... So I become aware of the great fortune of being born and.....living in Italy!!

This would make an incredible series. If you do more like this all over Italy (especially if you had stories from more families), I’m here for it.