Chelsea Waite’s love affair with Italy began on a 2017 trip to Florence and Tuscany. When the self-employed public relations professional visited Milan six years later, she knew she wanted to move there.“I had this deep feeling that I was meant to live here,” she told CNN Travel.

But her first attempt to move to Italy ended before it started. After discussing the possibility with an immigration lawyer, she learned that it would be complicated because she’s self-employed. She’d need to prove she had a contract with an Italian company, which she couldn’t set up at the time.