>If you're paying a million euros of income tax a year in France, Italy is very tempting. As for US citizens, Americans are always taxable on worldwide income, so moving to Italy would not help their tax bill.

This characterization:

>selling for an unsustainably low price)

also applies to previous governments and voters that approved defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare that needs ever growing populations to fund it.

I can see the situation just as easily be characterized as “avoid being liable for an unsustainable debt”.