How Much Does it Cost to Live in Italy in 2022: Price List, Bureaucracy and all the Details of an Italian Life
How much does it cost to live in Italy? Since we have moved to Parma, in Italy, many people have asked us about the cost of living in Italy. Now, that we completed two years in here and all the bills have arrived, we can, at last, share values and information.
We have tried to make this post as simple and descriptive as possible in order to have every question cleared up for those planning on moving to Italy. However, if you are not really interested to read the details, here is your answer: our cost of living in Italy per month is 1500 Euros – for a couple (cost of living in Italy in us dollars = U$ 1820).
Further down we will break down all of our cost to live in Italy, but as you can already see, it is not expensive to live in Italy.

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ITALY
Why Are We Living In Italy?
After two years travelling around the world, Fernanda had an opportunity to apply for her Italian citizenship – Tiago already had his dual citizenship since his childhood (Brazilian and Italian citizenship). After a couple of years travelling, we had practically gone penniless and were already planning to settle down – at least for a while – somewhere, just to sort things out, such as to launch our content creation company and organise all the material from our travel around the world.
However, above everything, we had always dreamed of living in Italy for a year, learn the language and familiarise ourselves better with the culture. So we went to Italy and started settling down early 2017.

Why Have We Chosen The City Of Parma To Live In Italy?
We decided to come to Parma because Tiago has a “cousin” – well, not really a cousin, but long story short: cousin – who lives in Parma and could give us a hand with the citizenship’s bureaucracy as we are not fluent in Italian.
Parma is a rich city. Not as much as before the 2008 economical crisis, but still better off than the rest of the country. It’s located in the region of Emilia-Romagna and known as the gastronomic capital of Italy. We have heard “of Europe” as well, but for the sake of this argument, let’s keep in Italy. Read More...