Americans Moving to Europe: Housing Prices and Strong Dollar Fuel Relocations – Bloomberg
Retirees and the wealthy have traditionally been the prime American buyers of real estate in Europe. But relatively cheap housing particularly in smaller cities and towns and the rise of remote work have made the continent alluring to a wider range of people, including those who are younger and find themselves priced out of the housing market at home. Growing crime rates in some US cities and political divisions have also led Americans to look across the pond for a quieter lifestyle, buoyed by a euro that just dropped to parity with the US dollar for the first time in more than 20 years.