Why did we choose Sardinia and why did we invest in real estate here of all the beautiful places we could pick around the world? That's one of the common questions that we get and I've done a long video about how we got into real estate and etc and you know some of the reasons but I thought I'd do a short video to answer that question and you know a lot of people ask us you know why here and why not Tuscany why not Sicily and things like that so in this video I'm gonna give you some of the reasons quite quickly about why we chose as a real estate investment but also for style of life to come to this most incredible beautiful island here in the Mediterranean so if you're ready here we go All right well the first reason for me is obvious I mean look at this Do you know how many places in the world have this type of turquoise water these type of beaches? I mean Sardinia has some of the most beautiful beaches I'm sorry in the world definitely the Mediterranean but you know you see some of the photos you're like wait is that the Caribbean? Is that the Maldives? No it's Sardinia it's not like there's one beach two beaches some places beautiful beaches you have to drive 45 minutes the next one actually this is 30 minutes from where we invested but you know 10 minutes further you got Santa Teresa de Galora beautiful beach another one another one just all these beaches around and like if you don't want to trust me that this is beautiful and unique right behind those rocks there that's where they filmed the new Disney Ariel the little mermaid I mean they could go anywhere in the world they could pick any location for a beautiful beach beautiful water beautiful scenery and where did they pick Sardinia to pick this beach incredible so really and if you look there's a map that shows all the beaches all the way around the island and it's crazy I mean just go and Google like most beautiful beaches of Sardinia and you just be blown away but what I like also is that you know it's green all year round you know some places if you go like in the south of Spain you know it can't be beautiful because burnt out it's gray and you know here all year round it's green so it never just kind of graze out so you get these contrasts of colors so and it's so beautiful because these little villages towns beaches etc so number one reason is absolute beauty second reason is the size in fact when we're comparing like we went to Sicily and the island is huge and you want to drive around to different parts and you know it's an hour and a half to our drive when we did a trip to check out real estate there we completely got it wrong in terms of the distances we were like oh we'll go here we'll go here and then suddenly it's two and a half hour drive and Sardinia you know on two and a half three hours you're from the south to the north and you can get to so many places and we love it that you know right by our house we can get to all these beaches and all these beautiful places all right the next reason which is important is costs so we're looking at different places you look that for example Portugal look that Croatia Menorca you know about islands just lots of different places say one place in the sun one place by water and you know I thought Sardinia would be crazy price and we also looked at Sicily in fact there's some lot of comparisons between Sardinia and Sicily and in fact I was surprised that the prices weren't higher and I'm on all these mailing lists and I kept these emails of properties for sale and I'm still amazed sometimes I see something pop up and like wow that's a really good deal when I talk about a good deal I'm looking at the comps I'm looking at the location what there is to do how beautiful it is and I'm comparing the south to France I'm comparing the places in Italy I'm comparing even to Portugal like if you want to have something with Sea View in Portugal and also some of the developments etc and we actually thought you know when we looked and we saw many options of lots actually right now the builder we're working with on the house here he showed us this crazy lot it's 30,000 square meters beautiful views of you know just mountains and valleys etc all green and it's 150,000 euros and you can build a 200 square meter house that's actually really really reasonable now some of you might say yes I know in other there's parts of the world you can buy a lot cheaper but we're in Italy on an island and you're like 20 30 minutes to all these beaches so in fact cost wise so one of reasons we chose Sardinia was cost of living was good cost of food cost of restaurants and cost of real estate and that was super important the next reason is and you know there's a quietness here like the rhythm you just it's not you know there's some places in the world just because there's so much on the tourist track you get slammed some cities in Italy you go there's just so many people now if you like that if you want the divide the busyness the streets packed we don't come to Sardinia but we love the you know if we're coming here we want to be at a different rhythm we want to disconnect and our friend Patricia here is funny she went back to Geneva in Switzerland she just said oh my gosh how do people do this it's like the rat race everybody stressed everybody's like oh you know and it's true and she says I have to get out I have to come back here and she has her two beautiful dogs she goes for walks it's just a different rhythm it depends what you want for me off to COVID I just realized like the power of being in nature the power disconnecting the power of going to a beautiful place and getting away from that frantic getting into nature you know going to the sea going for a hike going for a bike ride like for me that's just so powerful and how I feel it's like I come here in my energy level rises up I have like this wow how I feel inside I mean maybe you hear it my voice I come here and I'm like a kid I'm like look at this I mean I've never been to the speech right here I'm discovering every time I come look just look around it's crazy I mean look at the speech behind me huh anyways so there's this quietness this peacefulness here that um you know is you don't find so many places and in fact you know it's it's also for me like if we compare to Sicily it's just so much cleaner you know I find the houses the little towns a better maintained it also feels a bit better some places we've been to looking at around you know different countries in the Mediterranean they feel a bit rundown or the buildings aren't top of each other and you just I don't know divide I love what's beautiful I mean I'm I do videos and people laugh and put comments that I've counting you know they count the number of times I say beautiful or stunningly beautiful but I love nature I love beautiful places and sardinia is just stunning in terms of how beautiful it is but anyways that was point number one I went completely off track so but the quietness the peacefulness is amazing here all right next one is the culture you know it's important to consider if you look at different countries around the world kind of the culture and for me there's something magical about the Italian culture there's a warmth there's a you know like we say in French boulevard they want to enjoy life and you know you go on terraces in the evening you can just hear it you know there's just liveliness it's just so nice people so friendly there's places in the world where you know the culture is just more cold or you can't connect here you go you sit down a sit down last night start talking you know to the to the waiter and he's like oh I worked in Switzerland I worked here worked there enough to 20 minutes you kind of exchange and learning exchanging emails that's really nice like if you're gonna go somewhere and live somewhere or or have a second home somewhere I find that the culture you know of the place is so important the next reason is food okay you don't have to be a foodie but Italian food I mean I love Italian food and like you get fresh seafood you know you have just amazing pizzas the pastas you know the salads the just all the rest and you know I'm always amazed when I go out you know I always find you know there's some foods in the world where it's hard to pick here in Italy I could pretty much take anything on the menu and it's amazing the next reason is actually there's two international airports and there's pretty good access now it's not the best you'd have better access if you take really the big airports you know if you're looking like Tuscany you have Pisa you know you got Florence much better access and here the reality is if you're coming like in the winter like for us we're in the north orbia most of the direct flights from mainland from Switzerland from Paris from the different places kind of get cut off so you could have to fly through Roma and then into but from like April May onto September October you got direct flights so it's actually pretty good access that was key for us but it's not just the access to distance then I always say if you're gonna fly somewhere you're gonna go from a long weekend you know what I then have to drive four hours I kind of say that maximum hour and a half from the airport drive to your secondary home otherwise you're spending too much time for us it's amazing we land on orbit it's a 45 minute drive and where our property we're at the house 45 minutes so you can you know arrive late a Sunday night boom grab a rental car head up there and for me that's super important so well I hope that explains why we decided to make the crazy move and invest in this beautiful island in Sardinia to have our dream home here got lots of videos about the project what we're doing the experience of building a home in Italy so if you're interested to hear more about our adventures in real estate in Italy in Sardinia but also in other places like in Montenegro we got a bunch of projects there well make sure you click the like button 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