Toni Lodge

This is just some facts that might scratch an itch or might get you thinking.

Oh, that made me itchy, feel itchy.

Update on the cactus, still in there.

Still in my arm.

Maybe tomorrow.

Yeah, just wanted to let everybody know I do still have the tip of a cactus in my arm.

And they do have cactus in Sicily.

Everywhere.

Cacti, sir.

Cacti.

In Tretino, these are all places in Italy, there's 33 mountain villages.

And if you decide to move there, the government will give you 100,000 euro as an incentive to go there.

That's like 3 million Australian dollars.

Yeah, so it's €20,000 towards buying a home and then they'll give you €80,000 for renovations because there's a lot of like beautiful old buildings but need a little bit of love.

So you kind of end up being like a caretaker of like your home, right?

uh well it's your like it's you it's yours sorry but they give you the money so that you want to like bring it up to scratch because otherwise the difference is that they have to pay for straight up for all of the renovations but they go oh well someone's gonna love it and look after it and absolutely that's very cool there's a lot of beautiful old towns but like young people like want to move to the city and so they're like there's not many people so they need to give like incentives for people to move there

Is that something, though, that, like, sounds like too good to be true and then it isn't or there's, like, a loophole and it's like, and you get all that money if you're under the age of blah or over the age of, like, is there, like, a lot of, is it hard to actually qualify for?

No, there's a few little rules and stuff, but the population in these towns is shrinking and they're like, well, we have to do something or the town's not going to exist in 30 years.

You know how one of my favourite... The towns aren't...

The big good ones.