NICOS, a surgeon in a regional hospital in Greece, has been tearing his hair out for weeks now. As “Grexit” has moved from a hypothetical scenario to a very real, imminent threat, he and his wife have been staying up deep into the night to mull over what they would do. “I don’t think we could stay,” says the young father of two, who moved back to Greece only a few years ago after specialising at a top university hospital in Britain. He had been hopeful that his country was going to recover again and wanted his children to grow up in his homeland. But the last months have been very tough, with shortages for all sorts of basic supplies and medication, as well job cuts. And he is certain things will only get worse if Greece leaves the euro.
All over the country, similar hushed conversations are going on around kitchen tables of doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, engineers and other professionals. “This is my home, of course I want to stay, but I just don’t see how,” says Dimitris, a university lecturer. George, a 21-year old currently studying civil engineering at Edinburgh University, says he and most of his friends would love...Continue reading
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