In Greece...

It's not as bad as I expected. Life's like that.  But the city definitely looks like a worse version of many places in the US as far as real-estate bubbles are concerned. There's lots of abandoned uncompleted construction projects amdist the sunny bright Mediterranean city.

I can imagine that this sort of thing is fueling a great resentment which I don't see expressed at all to me: this is the place where European civilization pretty much finds its deepest roots; the name of Europe itself is Greek in origin.  "And this is how they treat us..." they must be saying.

I'll have more later...