‘It made me feel at peace’: This former teacher bought a bargain home in a rural Italian village for a simpler life | News Channel 3-12

‘It made me feel at peace’: This former teacher bought a bargain home in a rural Italian village for a simpler life | News Channel 3-12

By Silvia Marchetti (CNN) — She was craving peace and quiet after working as a teacher for 20 years, and Amelia Butler from the US says that buying a bargain home in Italy has given her just that. The 57-year-old now spends half of the year in the rural village of Latronico, located in the deep southern region of Italy’s Basilicata, and the rest in Philadelphia, her home town. It’s a dream come true for Butler, who loves the remoteness of the id…