Ira writes

Euro (Photo credit: Fernando D. Ramirez)

Ira Morse has left a new comment on your post "Greece the Squeaky Wheel":

"Yes, your are putting your life at risk, if you will go there. Greece is facing a crisis."

Thanks, Ira! We just watched a BBC special on the Euro, which highlighted Greece. Athens looks like a war zone. There are dozens of boarded up buildings everywhere. Entire malls are closed up. It is so very disheartening. We have been there when the good times were still rolling. I am grateful for that.

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Greece the Squeaky Wheel

English: Various Euro bills. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is not the best time to go to Greece, I would think. There have been some riots breaking out here and there, but with their stand in the Euro Zone so tenuous, it seems there will not be any bargains to be found. The UK travel advisory site is offering warnings. You can see them here.

When reading the news about travel to Greece at this time, there is the positive and negative view of it all.

Positive:

There are some bargains to be had.

There may be a better exchange rate for some currencies against the Euro (if they can hold on to it).

Less crowds

Negatives:

If they lose the Euro, there will be chaos with prices.

Hotels had delayed openings due to fewer tourists over a 3 year period.

Stores have cut hours.

There are strikes happening suddenly.

Transportation strikes and cuts

Higher crime rate

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

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Euro Poverty

If you read or will read the earlier post on stress, this is actually what preceded my thinking about how people react to stress. I read this new article in Realdeal.hu, a translation into English news portal. This was the title that caught my attention. 

Survey shows third of Hungarians face acute financial problems.

It is not only Hungarians that are having problems. Here are a couple of tidbits entice you to read the short, but interesting article at the site. "A third of Hungarian households struggle to pay their monthly overheads, according to a Eurobarometer survey released on Tuesday." The two ends of the spectrum are Greece on one side and The Netherlands on the others. "One in six Europeans finds it hard to pay the bills and three quarters said poverty had grown in their countries during the past year."

I just wonder how they would choose to have a stress-free life?

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