Some towns in Italy are willing to pay you to move there and have children.
The town of Borgomezzavalle is offering more than $100,000 to newcomers willing to start a family there.
That’s on top of selling abandoned mountain cottages for just over $1.
So far five houses have been sold, mainly to Italians and a group of monks.
Borgomezzavalle is just one of numerous Italian towns to offer incentives to prospective residents.
The offer was made to combat a falling population.
One in 4 small Italian communities have been classified as ghost towns in recent years.
Many Italians are moving to bigger cities for better opportunities.
Locana, a tiny Alpine village, is offering more than $10,000 for families to move there and take up residency.
Its population has fallen from 7,000 people in the 1900s to nearly 1,500 this year.
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