you misunderstood, I was only talking about the plot of land. Like you can exit your house and walk a bit and you're still on your property. I don't need a huge house, although ideally some of the things I want take some space, like a big garage for nice cars, and a home cinema, but that can always be added later, if the plot of land is big enough. A pool, too. An uncle of mine has a big house (1500m²) and his younger wife spends her days cleaning... He used to own a castle near here, similar to this one (don't want to be IDed if I show the real one) : https://www.bellesdemeures.com/en/listings/sale/tt-2-tb-13-pl-26066/151598835/ The castle was of course impressive, but my memories (I was a kid) are all about the large park, with a pond, a river, a forest and even large game animals, all in the middle of Paris suburbs, it was great. Nowadays it's probably worth a literal fortune, but at the time my uncle couldn't keep up with the maintenance, it was crazy expensive. In fact in France you can buy similar castles all over the place with comparatively low prices for this reason, the only ones that are worth a lot are those with a great location.

Weather here is not great but not horrible, thanks to the Gulf Stream it doesn't get too cold nor too hot like in NY. I would definitely like to spend the winter elsewhere, a bit too much rain, and too long. That's more long term goal (fuck you goals...). In fact on top of the weather what bums me in winter is the short daylight, so either I move closer to the equator (thinking about French Polynesia or Vietnam) or I live in two places (summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere).

I have Italian roots and family there, plenty of good things to say about it, but the future of the country is worrying me, people are older and older and the young aren't making babies, it's depressing. Italian would be easy to learn for me.