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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 08:30 AM Jun 2012

Greece brain drain 'wrecking my social life'

As the queues of jobless Greeks grow, more and more young people are moving abroad. It's an exodus that's particularly painful for Greek journalist Giorgos Christides.

Hanging out with friends is becoming increasingly difficult for me.

It seems my friends are fleeing Greece one by one, and the next time we see each other for a beer, our meeting place will probably be London's Trafalgar rather than Thessaloniki's Aristotle Square.

These past couple of weeks, I saw two of my best friends become residents of London, leaving their spouses and children behind, to work in the British capital and escape the employment no-man's-land that Greece has turned into because of the crisis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18542449

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Greece brain drain 'wrecking my social life' (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jun 2012 OP
Yes, and this is a serious problem. potone Jun 2012 #1

potone

(1,701 posts)
1. Yes, and this is a serious problem.
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 12:24 PM
Jun 2012

Merkel's response to the 50% unemployment rate among young Greeks was that they should move to another country to find work. But this is a catastrophe for the future. Greece's economy and society can never recover if their most talented young people leave. It is the callousness of the German government's response to this crisis, as well as the stereotyping of all Greeks as lazy, tax-evading, corrupt layabouts that enrages me the most. Oh, and also, the way that they keep talking about bailing the Greeks out, when 90% of the money is going to banks, mostly German and French ones. I could say a lot more, but I better stop.

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