The idea of packing up and moving to Italy to live out your own Eat, Pray, Love seems like fiction for anyone not named Elizabeth Gilbert. But if one tiny Italian town has its way, you'll be moving there soon—and you'll even get paid $2,100 for your troubles.

Update 5/11/17: Mayor Daniele Galliano's proposal of paying people $2,100 to move to his town of Bormida is actually too good to be true. As The Local reports, Galliano has since deleted the original Facebook post about the proposal, which received 17,000 inquiries. The town's website released a new statement to clarify that the bonus was simply a proposal to the Ligurian regional government, and not a confirmed measure, but that it hopes to enact the bonus in 2018.

Galliano also wrote a new post on his Facebook page, saying, "This will be my last post and I hope to be able to provide clarity. It was just an idea I proposed to the region of Liguria, which I am in contact with. The news was incorrectly reported and has reached a worldwide audience. Italy is a beautiful country, but like others, is in an economic crisis. Unfortunately it's not really possible to find help for all. Thank you for your interest."

The original story continues below.

The village of Bormida, in northwestern Italy, proposed a program that offers €2,000 ($2,100) to anyone willing to move there to stave off the town's shrinking population. Idyllic in the most Italian Alpine way, Bormida had only 390 residents when Mayor Daniele Galliano took office in 2014, as Il Secolo XIX notes. Since then, 54 residents have either passed away or moved to other places, with only four births to counteract the losses. To combat that downsizing, Galliano began renting out municipal houses for $50 a month for small homes, and up to $130 for larger homes to attract people to move to his small town. And the move worked.