A millennial couple moved to Italy after buying a farm. They said physical work is exhausting, but they have a better quality of life.

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 05:55

A man in a pink shirt with a woman in a black dress with mountain backdrop. — Jerry O'Shea and Lucie Davidson swapped their UK lifestyles to run a farm in the Italian countryside.
Courtesy of Lucie Davidson

Jerry O'Shea and Lucie Davidson decided to leave the UK for Italy after finding it too expensive.
They bought an Italian farm for $154,000 in October 2021 and moved to Italy that month.
O'Shea farms olive oil alongside his remote teaching jobs.

When couple Jerry O'Shea, 30, and Lucie Davidson, 27, decided they wanted to move from the UK to Italy, they didn't foresee running a farm in the Mediterranean countryside.