How bad is it in Greece + Domino Effect

[MarillionFan]

The Greeks are going to be taking it right up the arris.

Not for the first time either.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't know what's going to happen, but I've moved a big chunk of the warchest out of Euroland. Some of it to the UK.

[TimberWolf]

We should be sending food and medical aid if they are in trouble, if not massive financial bailouts.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

We should be sending food and medical aid if they are in trouble, if not massive financial bailouts.

Honestly, every country should chip and help a little with medical aid and food supplies - it won't impact everybody if it is a little but will make a huge difference to them.

[gingerjedi]

You could join in the roadkill barbecues in Tanzania; a fillet of grilled antelope and a bottle of beer for about 50p. No bowing waiter though.

Bizarrely a Chinese meal in Spain is still cheap, you have to get in when the restaurant is still building a reputation as once it's popular they replace the kitchen staff with the first family they can smuggle in.

[Doggy Styles]

When I hear stories like this I get a Ragin' Fury (tm) at the common currency.

I work with someone who spends a bit of time in Europe and he's one of those "I'm not British I'm European" types.

He's got excuses for everything that is wrong with the EU and especially the euro, based mainly on "all countries should be made to follow the rules" and "if there isn't a rule there should be".

Apparently all these rules, and everyone following them to the letter, would solve all the problems of having many wildly disparate economies merging into one fiscal union. I reckon it's more like baking a cake with sugar, wood, mud, cabbage and gravel as its main ingredients.

[Mich the Tester]

Honestly, every country should chip and help a little with medical aid and food supplies - it won't impact everybody if it is a little but will make a huge difference to them.

Yes you're absolutely right, but try explaining to your average Joe in Northern Europe that there are real people in Greece who need real help, when the gutter press have told him the average Greek retires at 53, drives a BMW X5 and hides his millions in a Swiss bank account and he believes all the tulipe he reads in his sad excuse for a newspaper.

[DimPrawn]

Greek sex industry hit by debt crisis - Telegraph

So the Greek debt crisis is starting to affect me too now.

[gingerjedi]

Yes you're absolutely right, but try explaining to your average Joe in Northern Europe that there are real people in Greece who need real help, when the gutter press have told him the average Greek retires at 53, drives a BMW X5 and hides his millions in a Swiss bank account and he believes all the tulipe he reads in his sad excuse for a newspaper.

Not the average Greek but the people who should have been paying... I don't like where this is going.

[SunnyInHades]

What are property prices like now?

any nice seaside properties with private beach for sale

I'll 've some of that.


Regarding Greece's financial situation, don't forget the words of erudite philiospher Rocky Balboa ....

You wanna dance,
you gotta pay the band.

You wanna borrow,
you gotta pay the man.

Hey, I ain't emotionally involved, Bob,
you understand? Gimme some money.