300塊錢租別墅？意大利這座小城花錢請人住！
Has the razza del ratto (rat race) got you down? Is life too febbrile (hectic) where you live?
大城市裏的瘋狂競爭令你沮喪了嗎？你居住之處的生活太忙亂了嗎？
But are you worried you don’t have enough contanti (cash) to live a more peaceful life?
還是你擔心自己沒有足夠的錢去過更平靜的生活？
Then you might be interested in the Italian hillside village of Bormida, which is about to offer a payment of €2,000 ($2,175) and rents as low as $50 a month to reverse its declining population.
那麼，你也許會對意大利博爾米達的一個山坡上的小城感興趣。這個小城打算支付2000歐元（2175美元），且把每月房租降低至50美元來扭轉其人口衰退的局面。
Bormida, located in the mountainous Liguria region – Genoa, had declined to 390 residents in 2014, when the current mayor, Daniele Galliano, took office, according to the local newspaper.
據當地報紙報道，博爾米達坐落於山脈衆多的利古利亞地區熱那亞市，2014年博爾米達的人口已削減至390人，就在那個時候現任市長達尼埃萊·加利亞諾上任。
Spurred by visions of a ghost town, Galliano began measures to reverse the decay.
在受到幽靈鎮想法的刺激後，加利亞諾開始採取措施扭轉人口衰退的局面。
But with only four people added, he decided more-enticing measures were needed, hence the subsidies, which also include a $130-a-month rent for larger homes.
然而小城人口只增加了4人，於是他認爲需要採取更有吸引力的措施，因此就提出了補貼政策，其中還包括把大房子的租金定爲每月130美元。
"We couldn't rent them at market value, so we chose a symbolic number and the requests abounded: the important thing was to repopulate the village," Galliano said.
“我們不會以市場價出租房屋，所以我們選擇了一個象徵性的數字並提出了許多要求：最重要的一點就是要使人們重進住進村子裏，”加利亞諾說道。
According to Britain’s Guardian newspaper, details of the offer still needed to be settled and approved by the local council, Galliano wrote on his Facebook page. But if the proposal is passed, anyone who moves to Bormida will be given €2,000.
據英國衛報報道，加利亞諾在他的臉書主頁上寫道，該提議的細節還需要由當地委員會確定並批准。但是如果該提案通過了，那麼任何搬進博爾米達的人都會拿到2000歐元。
According to Cosmopolitan magazine, the village has one main street, four restaurants (hey, this is Italy), a bed and breakfast and a post office that opens only three days a week. much of the architecture dates back to 1200s.
據時尚雜誌報道，這個村子有一條主街、四家餐館（咳，這是意大利呀）、一家簡易旅館（住宿加早餐）和一個郵局，而郵局一週只營業三天。這個村子裏的多數建築都可追溯至13世紀。
“There is nothing much to do here,” Oddone Giuseppe, manager of one of the restaurants, told the Guardian. “But life is so simple and natural, we have forests, goats, the church, and plenty of good food. Life would definitely be free of stress.”
“這裏沒有太多的事情要做，”一家餐館的經理奧德奈·朱塞佩告訴衛報。“但是這裏的生活簡單又放鬆。我們有森林、山羊、教堂，還有許多美味的食品。在這裏生活一定會毫無壓力的。”
