This US couple sold their house and moved to Italy for good

Editor’s Note: Sign up to CNN Travel’s Unlocking Italy newsletter for insider intel on Italy’s best loved destinations and lesser-known regions to plan your ultimate trip. But then Covid struck and during those two ‘no travel’ years we began to rethink our original plans,” Glenda Tuminello, a, a former high school math teacher and home designer, tells CNN Travel. It’s just a few minutes’ walk to the train station that could take us anywhere we want to go in Italy, as well as any European country that we want to visit,” she says. “The materialistic aspect is not as predominant in Polignano as in the US, and there’s more a sense of community – of family and friends,” he says. One positive that the Tuminellos have noted are the incredible driving skills of southern Italians who always “stop on a dime.” Glenda Tuminello says moving to Italy was simply “one of those no-brainers that you better pounce on while you can!” That’s because the couple was supported throughout the entire relocation process and by Finding La Dolce Vita, an Italy-based firm that assists would-be expats.