Where is the best place to live in Greece?

[kingmob]

The Greek periphery has been demolished population wise due to decades of neglect, corruption, state indifference and progressive eradication of all possible amenities that would enable a decent quality of life there, sadly a common theme around the Balkans.

You can see in the following map the economic situation of said places, the numbers are actually much worse now.

Spoiler!

Young people have left due to lack of jobs, lack of social circles and life, lack of basic amenities like access to bare-bone health care and education. They have migrated to foreign lands or the urban centers as an intermediate destination.

There's only 60-70+ year olds living on their modest pensions (your g25 categories, for example), when they finally pass away inside this decade, there are literally going to be ghost towns scattered all around, it's a sad state of affairs.

You can see all these ultra-patriot, ultra-nationalist/ultra-nativist Greeks of the Diaspora, being against foreign migration into their former homelands, against this, against that, and I say good for them, but you won't catch anyone coming back and putting their money where their mouth is, return to their communities and invest in them, to promote their welfare and secure those communities' future existence.

Anyways, it is what it is, as with everything, nature abhors vacuum, if they don't do it, I suppose someone else will.

[sioned]

I can imagine that life standard in Athens would be good, correct me if im wrong...

[Zeno]

I can imagine that life standard in Athens would be good, correct me if im wrong...

It depends.

If you live in the northern, eastern or southern suburbs, it's very good.

If you live in the western suburbs, it's good, although a few difficulties.

The areas of the centre, around Plaka, the commercial triangle (Omonoia, Monastiraki squares and Syntagma) and Kolonaki, Pangrati and Zografou districts are good, but the rent is ridiculously high (guess why).

The centre, in the area between Omonoia, Larissa Station (the Central Railway station), Patissia and Exarcheia is just unbearably bad. Like, no Greeks actually live in this part of the downtown (hence why it's an immigrant ghetto).

[Pater Patota]

Absolutely Ionian islands such as Kefalonia and Ithake, of course also Cyclades islands such as Santorini and Mykonos in Aegean sea.

[Jana]

The Greek periphery has been demolished population wise due to decades of neglect, corruption, state indifference and progressive eradication of all possible amenities that would enable a decent quality of life there, sadly a common theme around the Balkans.

You can see in the following map the economic situation of said places, the numbers are actually much worse now.

Spoiler!

Young people have left due to lack of jobs, lack of social circles and life, lack of basic amenities like access to bare-bone health care and education. They have migrated to foreign lands or the urban centers as an intermediate destination.

There's only 60-70+ year olds living on their modest pensions (your g25 categories, for example), when they finally pass away inside this decade, there are literally going to be ghost towns scattered all around, it's a sad state of affairs.

You can see all these ultra-patriot, ultra-nationalist/ultra-nativist Greeks of the Diaspora, being against foreign migration into their former homelands, against this, against that, and I say good for them, but you won't catch anyone coming back and putting their money where their mouth is, return to their communities and invest in them, to promote their welfare and secure those communities' future existence.

Anyways, it is what it is, as with everything, nature abhors vacuum, if they don't do it, I suppose someone else will.

Great post and unfortunately familiar (we have same issues too), especially this part:

You can see all these ultra-patriot, ultra-nationalist/ultra-nativist Greeks of the Diaspora, being against foreign migration into their former homelands, against this, against that, and I say good for them, but you won't catch anyone coming back and putting their money where their mouth is, return to their communities and invest in them, to promote their welfare and secure those communities' future existence.

Anyways, it is what it is, as with everything, nature abhors vacuum, if they don't do it, I suppose someone else will.

[Cristiano viejo]

Macedonia.

[Pater Patota]

Ionian islands are clean, safe, beautiful, i believe local folks don’t see any MENA refugee trouble.Aegean islands, especially Dodecanese and North Aegean islands like Rodos, Kos, Lesvos, Samos are not safe, these islands are middle of big trouble.If i would live in Greece, i choose King Odysseus’s hometown Ithaca.

[Hithaeglir]

In my opinion it's Volos, you have Pelion and local culture just behind you, the sea in front of you and in walking distance you hop on the ferry and go to Sporades on a whim. I had the time of my life when i was living there.Thessaloniki is really beautiful as well, same scenery but much larger.

[BalkanianEastMed]

Either you will be Pontians+Black Sea Greek like me or some Kavkaz Iranic choose cause other thing is Greek other is Iranian

[BalkanianEastMed]

Mykonos, Rhodes and Corfu are the most corrupted Greek islands and most unsafe mafia is in charge there