Potential Influx of Greek Immigrants

We actually live in a nice estate in Cranbourne North. 1 neighbour works for PwC, guy across the road is an IT project manager for Telstra. I feel very comfortable here. Once my wife went to the Woolworths at Cranbourne Centro, her comment was, "it was like I was in another world". And I see all sorts on the train. I feel bad about being judgmental, but its hard not to be.

 

Unless they get kicked out of the EU, no Greeks will come here.

They can just go and work/live in any other EU country without any need for a visa... So that's a lot of countries, plus add Switzerland to that.......

 

for now at least anyway. I expect that to be a 'limited time offer' !

 

I don't think we can look at it as all of them would go to another EU country. Perhaps majority would, but a small amount may decide to move to Australia for whatever reason, relatives here, change of environment ect. Even if just 5% or 10% move to a concentrated area, that could be enough to change housing demand in that local area.

 

Much more likely to move to the UK along with all the Eastern Europeans moving there on mass.

 

Actually, I would have said Germany. Many Greeks went to work there after WW2, including my father. I have some relatives there and I know many other people with relatives there.

 

@hpresident

i would rather worry about well being of Greek People living in that country and impact it will have on their day to day life.......

even though if they come to aus.. do you think they can afford to even rent property here, let alone buying it?

i hope they come out of mess soon and in somewhat better condition!

 

I think whether or not they get kicked out of Euro Union it won't make much difference to their futute. The situation there is so bad to have any chance of a better life they will need to leave. The austerity measures being requested of them by Europe are so extreme that they won't have much of a life there.
I'd say IF they leave, the same countries which accepted them after the war will be their most likely destinations. Countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Brazil, USA and perhaps the addition of Cyprus will be fitting as they have already sizable Greek immigrant populations. Usually people emigrating from a country tend to go where they know there are others from the same culture for obvious reasons.
Now whether those countries accept them or not is a different story.

 

I kind of like the fact that lots of the old Greeks around me have little English. That goes for the 70s Vietnamese, too. It makes local life more interesting.

 

To be honest, you are banking on an idea at the extreme level. I'd suggest you look at more likely ways of housing demands being increased.

 

Literally go to Oakleigh shopping district on Sat/Sun afternoon and everyone is speaking greek smoking outside greek restaurants. This is probably the most greek suburb I know of.

Pretty good area too with good schools, easy access to shopping, train line and chaddy.