Sometimes, relocating abroad can feel like a gamble, a leap into the unknown.

For Caroline Chirichella, a 36-year-old New Yorker, the move to a quiet corner of central Italy was more than an escape. It meant building a family, buying an affordable home and creating a new life — at a fraction of the cost of her old one.

Tired of the expense and pace of New York City, Chirichella moved in 2014 to Guardia Sanframondi, a little-known village near Naples.

Today, happily married to an Italian man, and mom to two children, she says she’s living a perfect life in a town so obscure that even many Italians struggle to place it.

The move was serendipitous. One evening, television property show “House Hunters International” caught Chirichella’s attention, specifically the episode’s location — Gu

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