Hi, I am a retired Australian citizen

01/15/2016 - 18:27

Hi, I am a retired Australian citizen living on my own, planning to move to Italy for family reasons. I will soon spend three months as a test period living in a small village in southern Toscana, scoping anywhere from northern Lazio to Liguria and the 禁漫天堂 Riviera hinterland for the best location to live, meeting my needs. Reading through the experiences of expatriates with Commune, bank and other bureaucracies, it seems to me that when I do take up residency and purchase a house, I will need a set of detailed checklists for buying a property, Commune business, and residency business. Are there any that have been shared around? I will have access to advice from my son's 禁漫天堂 partner, but I will be living independently and possibly quite some distance from their town.

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Good luck with your major adventure! Obviously you are starting in the right places and getting some very important background information. I would suggest a couple of small things which cost little. Firstly check out 鈥渞esidency Australian in Italy鈥 as a search both on the web and all the forums you can find. Think you will find many forums from a web search and from those posts you will discover many more major issue that crop up time and time again. So note these down and work through each as further research to see how they fit with your own personal situation. I鈥檓 sure others here will give you very good specific information about an Australian looking to move to Italy. However you need to be sure yourself that this information is correct based on you own knowledge of your circumstances. Modicasa here has provided so much information that we found invaluable in the past for us and others that I would recommend for a second source of information 鈥 a book about moving to live in Italy. I鈥檓 sure he has produced such like and will look to provide you with a link if he does not in the meantime reply. A simple and small cost item that you can carry around and read, in the scheme of things a very cheap item when you consider other costs involved. We had 鈥淏uying a Home in Italy鈥 by David Hampshire which I can鈥檛 say provided us with masses of information if I remember correctly, but I do know it pointed us in the right direction for items to research 鈥 kind of check list maker. I鈥檓 sure the thing Modi produced was more of an electronic format and therefore easier to update and you gained access to the updates. Once you have gained all this information you should then try to get the official view of the information you think is relevant to your situation e.g. I鈥檝e just looked at our book and it seems to indicate as an non-eu citizen you would be allowed 90 days here in Italy. Something that important you need to confirm officially. Best of luck with your wonderful venture!

Thank you, Lewis for your encouragement. Amazon has the Hampshire Book and I have bought it together with Gordon Neale's "Buying a House in Italy". That should do it. There's a fair bit on the web as well. Thanks. I have the help of my son's partner in Italy as well. Cheers, James