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I have spent half my life sitting on this balcony

I have spent half my life sitting on this balcony, watching the shadows lengthen across the village square below. From up here, the patterns of human movement are as clear as the currents in the sea. I watch the locals, my neighbors, moving in a rhythm that has been perfected over three thousand years of blinding sun and salt air. And then, I watch you—the visitors. I see you marching through the streets at three in the afternoon, water bottles clutching like lifelines, faces

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Being pulled a quick one, on MONEY

Being a born & raised Greek, and having spend 9 years of my professional life in the UK, I have developed an inner "greek-scam" detector which I use every time a fellow countryman tries to "pull a quick one on me". One of the favorite "quick ones" has to do with MONEY. It doesn't matter if it's small change or large amounts, the fact is that Greeks are a bit complacent regarding money-handling obligations towards the others.

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