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Two Months in Italy – Living La Dolce Vita
By 35 is the defining age  •  January 4, 2020
I had the good fortune to spend two months in Italy with my partner during the last quarter of 2019. It was nothing short of an eye opener from many angles, of which the most relevant one to this blog would be that of cost and lifestyle arbitrage.
We spent one month in the region of Puglia (southern Italy) and another in Umbria (central Italy), and the conclusion from a cost perspective is that living life in those regions in Italy is way cheaper than in Singapore. Here's a summary of the breakdown in costs.
Airfare
S$915 per pax on economy class via Turkish Airlines, with a stopover of four nights in Istanbul.
Accommodation 
This was c. S$1,750 per month for a private ground floor apartment with an adjacent outdoor space (garden / farm) through AirBnB.
Indoor space was roughly 1,000 to 1,200 square feet, and outdoor space was so bountiful that I find it hard
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By 35 is the defining age
Picked up "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham back when I was serving my national service when I was 18 years of age - that chapter on Mr Market was mind-blowing and opened up a whole new paradigm of investing that that shaped my investment thought process since.
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