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One such incentive offers potential residents up to $32,000 in payments toward living in and renovating a home in a small town in Tuscany.

“They’re checking every two years instead of immediately closing down the facility as residents and our group have been asking for for years,” Pakucko said.

Colleagues and residents threw Mrs Pritchard a retirement party with cake, flowers and champagne to say farewell.

The couple live on the other side of the village, so the crowds of people have not bothered them too much, but Matthew said he had heard rumblings of discontent from other residents.

But the residents of one town right in the combat zone have decided to stay.