Hmmm. Wonder what the gotcha's are buying real estate there as an American. This is a good deal. There's a bunch of them. http://www.viviun.com/AD-234720/
Have you heard of Germans who used to think Greece was a good deal, till the Greeks made them "want" to sell on the cheap? May be Americans will be more luckier.
Election in Greece coming up July 7. Looks like a lot of them are thinking that going lefty is not going to be the road to salvation. The other thing in the background is that the conservatives just won a much larger share in the EU parliament, which makes it less likely or more difficult to get future rounds of bailout money or even continuation of the current one since their compliance is being challenged. Past problems on the right are noted too. So do something that is smart and not corrupt then. Greek election: Why frustrated young voters are turning conservative "The last time my family supported something left, it turned out to be a lot worse," says Zoe Babaolou, a 19 year old from Thessaloniki who voted for New Democracy in the European elections. "It seems better to return to something safer." Image captionZoe Babaolou says young Greeks voted ideologically in 2015 but saw no change to their lives Like many young Greeks, Tasos Stavridis plans to leave the country once he finishes his degree in political science. "Our financial crisis has gone on much longer than we expected and we are so exhausted," says the 22-year-old. His generation has been severely impacted by the country's decade-long financial crisis. With a youth unemployment rate of almost 40%, between 350,000 and 400,000 graduates have emigrated since 2010. "Most of my friends plan to leave too. In Greece the salaries are so low, and the economic situation is so bad," Mr Stavridis complains. The chatty cockroach getting Greeks to open up How crisis helped Greeks open their eyes to mental illness As Greeks prepare for a general election on 7 July, he and his peers are not backing a radical, youth-orientated party, such as the current-ruling Syriza which swept to victory in 2015. In last month's European elections, the majority of 18- to 24-year-old voters (30.5%) backed New Democracy (ND), the traditional centre-right party widely considered partly responsible for the very crisis that still impacts them. What is the centre right offering? ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is widely expected to win the general election, is promising lower taxes, greater privatisation of public services and to renegotiate a deal with Greece's creditors that would allow more money to be reinvested back into the country. "The truth is, I blame them [for the crisis] too," admits Mr Stavridis. "But I believe Mitsotakis has made a lot of changes. I agree with the economic plan this party has, and I believe it will help us escape this situation." Greek European election result Source: Greek interior ministry "We must focus on the private sector in order to get better economically," he believes. "Our public sector is inefficient and lazy." End of Greek bailouts offers little hope to young Love and hate in the EU after two economic rescues Greece has long been associated with radical youth politics, from the student uprising that helped bring down the military dictatorship in the 1970s to the anarchist riots that accompanied the debt crisis. Are young people losing their radicalism? From talking to some young Greeks, it seems that cynicism has emerged from years of revolutionary rhetoric accompanied with no visible change in circumstance. "The last time my family supported something left, it turned out to be a lot worse," says Zoe Babaolou, a 19 year old from Thessaloniki who voted for New Democracy in the European elections. "It seems better to return to something safer." Image captionProspects for Greek graduates are still poor, with youth unemployment stubbornly high at 40% Syriza rose to power on a strong anti-establishment platform but disappointed many of its supporters after ignoring the results of a referendum on the eurozone's austerity package. Ms Babaolou, whose father lost his job at the start of the crisis, says her parents felt "very disappointed and betrayed" after backing the party. Timeline: Greece's financial and political crisis 2009: A year after the financial crisis hits, the Greek budget deficit is revealed as more than 12% of the entire economy (GDP) - the true figure is later revealed as 15.4% of GDP 2010-11: Teetering towards bankruptcy, the government gets two bailouts from the EU, ECB and IMF totalling €240bn 2013-14: Youth unemployment peaks at almost 60% and the government collapses Jan 2015: Syriza party takes power under anti-bailout PM Alexis Tsipras, after the election defeat of the ruling New Democracy June-July 2015: Banks shut as talks with creditors fail and the government rejects EU/IMF bailout conditions. Greeks back Syriza in a referendum to turn down the bailout August-Sept 2015: Tsipras eventually agrees a third bailout of €86bn and imposes tough, new austerity measures. Despite the deal he is re-elected. Although New Democracy is economically liberal, its social stance is solidly conservative. Media caption2015: A street artist's graffiti guide to debt crisis Its politicians preach a focus on "family, Church and nation" and Mr Mitsotakis has made appeals to the far-right with a promise to crack down on immigration. In comparison, Syriza has brought in pro-LGBT laws and worked to separate Church and state. What is the youth appeal of the centre right? Given that most research shows young Greeks are more socially liberal than older generations, why are they backing ND? BBC We must focus on the private sector in order to get better economically. Our public sector is inefficient and lazy Tasos Stavridis Greek voter, 22 "I'm not proud of their social policies to be honest, but I truly believe that if we make an effort to improve the economy then social liberalism will be easier to implement in future," says Tasos Stavridis. Zoe Babaolou adds: "We voted for the ideology in 2015 and we didn't see any changes. So I'm more interested in the economic measures." This sense of cynicism is obvious when talking to young Greeks. Outside a coffee shop in the leafy Athens suburb of Kifisia, 19-year-old Giannis Reklos says he is voting New Democracy because "they are the best out of the worst".
Seems socialism has appeals.... until you've tried it out. Then you understand how it SUCKS! (Unfortunately by the time you've experienced it and really understand*... as opposed to merely fantacizing about the notion... too late to rectify.) *Don't believe? Just ask Venezuelans or Cubans what they think of it.
Lefties unseated in Greece. Truthfully, I don't have a clue what the alleged center right government can do. They campaigned on lowering taxes, and not cutting pensions- as if anyone pays taxes anyway. Same old, same old. "We have our pride, we won't be treated like, blah, blah, blah." Same crapola the lefties preached. If you have your pride, then become Greece again. There is no solution for them, other than to do the big toilet flush and go full Grexit. https://www.politico.eu/article/center-right-to-seize-power-from-exit-polltsipras/
Explain to me with your detailed knowledge of history the choice the Cuban people had in choosing their form of government in 1960 and the years since... Castro invaded Cuba with a small army and recruited poor people from the countryside who were starving and looked over by current government and overthrew Bautista and marched into Havana with an army taking over. When Castro and Che (an Argentinian by the way) took power they imprisoned and murdered anyone who supported the previous government or was thought to not be loyal to Castro. Hundreds of thousands fled because they were most l ikely were going to be killed, imprisoned or treated like shit. People left everything they which was little after the government took it, and many had loved ones disappear because their names were on lists. He confiscated all the land and business and took what he wanted for himself and dictated by law what profession and school people could choose. There was no equal distributions to the people. He eliminated all the media and only allowed newspapers ran by the government. Anyone who criticized the government or the policies were never heard from again. Every election was basically voting for the candidates Castro hand selected and the Presidential election was Castro unopposed every time. The Congress that was in existence based on the U.S. model now could never vote or decide on any laws or policies that were not approved or supported by Castro. The list of political opponents imprisoned or killed grew every year to where opposition was completely illegal. Castro lived on a secluded compound with cars and money and support from Russia and China while the country was filled with poor peasants who had no rights or say in how they lived their lives. All agriculture and prices were set by the government and if you did not follow your land was taken and given to someone who would follow. So please explain to me with your advanced insight how the Cuban people CHOSE this for themselves or had any power to change it. People were so desparate to get away from this FORCED system of living they were willing to ride a few sheets of plywood strung together in shark infested waters with strong currents to hopefully escape. If you did not treat Castro like the Father of the country you were thrown in jail (a la North Korea). SO before you go spouting off about Cuba and the people choosing to be "socialist" and that the people are so happy in their elected form of goverment, how about you shut the fuck up and crack a book. You know nothing about what you are talking about and as someone with a Cuban history and who has been there 2x in the last 4 years and studied their history, there is nothing socialist or free about it. A dictator took over and imposed his will on the people. There is very little difference between North Korea and Cuba.
Bullshit, Cuba is the dream situation for so many losers in this country. They love the equality that is claimed there. Countless leftwing democrats have praised it through the years and YES IT IS SOCIALIST. It is a failure.
Hilarious when extreme liberal millennials repeatedly, tell us that the so called progressives will be in charge of government soon enough. We are all going to perish and maybe, they will get their wish to be ruled by Socialist millennials, then, we shall see how they like their Utopia! We probably, won't see it but, they would be cursing under their very breaths how, stupid they were to believe Socialism is not the Utopia they believed it was! They will be poor, they will be miserable and all slaves! By then, it will be too late for them like Venezuela under Hugo Chavez and now Nicolas Maduro. It will be a fascist government too, for them calling others fascists because they have contrary views to theirs. Now they will experience what a fascist government actually is!
If the Greeks had told the ECB to piss off and gone back to the Drachma, they'd have seen massive inflation for a few years, and everyone would go to Greece for vacations, bringing in dollars and Euros and a shit load of tourism (which is what the Greeks do best). But instead, they tried to cut themselves into oblivion. Well, guess what? They cut themselves into oblivion.
I will simply ignore your ignorant statement which is as ignorant as those politicians praising Cuba as well. Try crakcing a book before you speak on a subject you know nothing about.