Ever get the urge to throw your computer out the window, slip on a straw hat and fly off to some small Italian village where the rivers flow with red wine?

If a proposed plan goes through, The Guardian reports that a remote, you might just get your chance - because a beautiful town in Italy might start paying people to live there.

This YouTube video gives us an arial tour of the village of Bormida...

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Bormida, a mountain village with a population of just 394, is weighing a plan to offer €2000 to people who transfer their residence there. And once you're there, you can pay as little as €50 in rent each month for a small place to live. For a larger place, rent would cost €120. The population of Bormida has been dwindling lately, and the town's mayor, Daniele Galliano, proposed the idea as a way to keep the town going.

Galliano posted on Facebook about the plan, emphasising it's still just that: a plan, and nothing is set in stone. The cheap rent part will be ready in about two months, but the cash bonus is still just an idea he's been floating around, The Independent notes. But because the media frenzy is so crazy now, he joked that he'll have to learn English.

Of course, you'd still have to find a job if you move to Bormida — the nearest city, Genoa, is 50 miles away.

For now, there's a main street with four restaurants, a bed and breakfast, and a post office that opens three times a week.

"There is nothing much to do here," the manager of the Oddone Giuseppe restaurant told the Guardian. "But life is so simple and natural, we have forests, goats, the church, and plenty of good food. Life would definitely be free of stress."

Sound like one for you?

From: Country Living UK