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"Those grapes look really sour, don't they?" Ask all the younger Greeks that had to leave their country and come over to Germany what they think about their In
by rglullis 2y ago
"Those grapes look really sour, don't they?"
Ask all the younger Greeks that had to leave their country and come over to Germany what they think about their Internet.
Ask how many of them have a home-based job in the UK, Denmark or Germany, but feel they can not go back simply because they don't have a minimally decent internet infrastructure to be doing fully remote work.
Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season.
Of course, it's not the only thing that is lacking in Greece. But I can guarantee you that is one of the things that is holding it back.
- TheCapeGreek 2y ago100%. I get better internet here in a small town in the third world at the bottom of Africa than I did in Salamis (very short boat ride from Athens for non-Greek readers). Of course, my experience has a 10+ year gap now, things have definitely grown in Greece as OP has highlighted in the post, but I remember still having 100+ ping while connecting to European servers. Nowadays from Cape Town I "only" hit 150.
- piva00 2y agoThe situation in Greece is really dire if they think Germany's internet connectivity is much better than there.
- rglullis 2y agoit's not much better, but it's good enough to the point that is not a blocker.
- guenthert 2y agoUh, perhaps I was too long away, perhaps I'm too old, but what's wrong with Internet connectivity in Germany? I got here (town of less then 25k souls) 100Mbps (the least I could realistically chose) last year, RTT to nearest google server is 22ms (116ms to Amazon though). There's some commotion in town to get us each 1Gbps (which is IMHO absurd). Took a while to install it (partly due to history of the premise), but I don't think it has been down since I got it. Honestly, if it is any worse than Internet in the S.F. Bay area, I haven't noticed it yet.
- fifnir 2y ago> Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season. Maybe instead they should look into making their hotels into "doctor house", or "teacher house" or generally "something affordable by public workers" so that people who move to the island to do their job can have a reasonable life without competing with north EU nomads for living space.
- rglullis 2y agoYou can not rent your property to a doctor or a teacher only in the off-season.