riinawallico

Moving abroad, starting over, choosing a slower life: life in Italy, renovating Italian house, Italian culture.

What the world's wealthiest buyers just told us about how they want to live — and what it means if you're not one of them *A Lemonhunter Field Note — July 2026* --- Every June, Sotheby's International Realty publishes a report most people never see. It surveys the agents who handle the $10 million-and-up end of the world — the villas, the compounds, the third and fourth homes. This year's finding wasn't about price. It was about *time*. The report calls it "longevity-driven living." In plain...

Italians have turned complaining into an art form. And if you want to truly belong here, if you want Italy to open up to you the way it only does for those who understand its rhythm, you need to learn it too. For a Finn, this is a spiritual crisis. Back home, if something is wrong you say so once, expect results, and move on. You do not linger. You do not perform. You "file" a complaint and get on with your day. In Italy, that approach has a name. Too cold. Too efficient. Too "Germanic"....