In 2005, we were a newly married couple living in our 2,000-square-foot house in Nashville. Although we had steady gigs performing in a symphony orchestra in the US and liked our three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home, we dreamed of living in Italy.

Fifteen years later, in 2019, we applied for Italian work visas as musicians. When they were granted, we sold everything we owned — including our home. We quit our gigs and, by April, had bought a house in a town north of Rome.