After a week of vacation in Greece spent sipping freddo espressos in little cafés, lingering for hours over taverna dinners, and seeing locals enjoy a seemingly leisurely lifestyle, you might start to wonder: Could I live here?
This happened to me, too. I grew up in Boston, but fell in love with Athens the first time I visited. I’d quit my job to travel for a year — and I liked Greece so much that, after that year ended, I moved here.
In 2022, I became a resident, and I bought an apartment here a few years later. I adore my life in Athens, but I’ve learned that the reality of a slow life is very different from the fantasy.
So many things shut…
