Albania looks, at first, like one of the last obvious arbitrage trades left in Europe. Mediterranean beaches directly across the water from Italy and next door to Greece. Warm winters on the Ionian coast. Housing that costs a fraction of anything in the Mediterranean core. Mountains behind the beaches. A capital in the middle of a construction boom. Residence options that seem unusually relaxed. And an EU accession process that, unlike a decade ago, has started to look genuinely serious.

That is the version of Albania you find on the internet, and every line of it is technically true.