Nea Smyrni - Post Report Question and Answers
Morale among expats:
It depends on how long they have been here and how much daily interaction they have with Greeks. I think it is a reverse bell curve really, according to time here and contact with Greeks. The worst stage is about 3 months into your stay, when the newness of the experience has passed and you are not so starry-eyed anymore. You start to realize this is not the land of Socrates anymore, and that rudeness and ethnocentrism seem to be the rule. Also, the more contact you have with any form of Greek bureaucracy negatively correlates to your satisfaction with this country. - Aug 2006
