{"id":52835,"date":"2026-07-31T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/?p=52835"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:24:39","slug":"what-italy-cost-of-living-calculators-get-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/what-italy-cost-of-living-calculators-get-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"What Italy Cost Of Living Calculators Get Wrong (And How We Built Ours)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people budget their move to Italy by comparing the price of milk. We priced every town in the country and found that 86% of the difference between the cheapest and most expensive town is one single thing. You may have done this already: you find a page comparing the price of a litre of milk in Catania and in Milan. Then a coffee in Naples against a coffee in Verona. You add it up in your head and decide the south is cheap and the north is expensive. We’ve been there before, a long time ago. Then we decided to run the numbers properly. Here is the arithmetic that changed everything. Say milk really is twenty cents a litre cheaper in one town than the other. Say you drink a litre a day, which is a lot of milk. Over a year you save seventy-three euro. Say dinner out costs twenty euro more per head in the pricier town, and you eat out once a week. That is a thousand euro a year. So a household that has done the classic comparison, and got it right, has found around \u20ac1,100 euro a year. Now here is what we found…<\/p>\n

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Italy cost of living calculator: see what other calculators miss and discover how we built ours using data from every Italian town.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_helpful_status":1,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1321,1320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-taxes-and-finance","category-where-to-live-in-italy"],"acf":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52835"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52905,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52835\/revisions\/52905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magictowns.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}