“…Specific legislations in the European Union, encompassing, for instance, freedom to travel, to settle and to work, encourage diverse migration processes within the EU (Kordel and Weidinger, 2018). Migration processes that tend to follow a hedonic imperative, i.e., a strife for satisfaction, amenities and nice surroundings (Polèse, 2009), recently have become of scientific interest, and are discussed either under the term amenity migration (Bartoš et al, 2009;Steinicke et al, 2012;Moss and Glorioso, 2014) or lifestyle migration in rural areas (e.g. Weidinger and Kordel, 2016 in Spain; Sardinha, 2015 for Portugal; Benson, 2011 for France; Nagy, 2006 for Romania).…”