How an Athens neighborhood fights the pressures of gentrification | Focus on Europe 

Well then average people should buy there then. Only problem is most people dont want to wait for the area to get better or take on the risk that it wont. Investors do. Thus the govt and surrounding communities will welcome them.

would you raise your kids there?

That's very interesting.What did you like the most? The junkies,the vandalizing Antifa groups,the pollution or the horrible grafitti and overall ugliness?

​@@postcollapse1170i think, that highly depends on your character and the alternatives you are capable to spend and life. Generally speaking, alternative districts are heaven and adventure.Generally very safe spaces. People mind each other throughly and your children would have liberties and experiences that you miss in a suburban suburb. Intercultural contact, arts, music, social awareness, community. Actually everybody I know, who grew up in these surroundings are very well integrated in society today as well. The political struggle to protect these oasis wont affect the raise of children in a bad way. The people there are often profiled as chaots, but they are very structured and kind indeed. 150% intellectuals. Peoples who read real books, not storys or newspaperss, people who DO. Just in an atmosphere where status and consumption is not everything, but creativity and personal development is. A community of equals, where everybody can unfold. You will never have that life experience in a suburban terraced hens apartment. If getting up at 6 to drive to work is more your thing, better stay there. If you need to organise yourself for factory or office: stay there if you are fine with that lifestyle. Thats o.k. Just that. The happy slaves from suburban areas often don't look very happy on their way to work. "because the hippies stole the happiness"? lol.

Me that's been there I good and bad times personally i wouldn't but great place

I doubt it

Most of Athens is covered in graffiti like that, not specific to that district at all. You can then argue that the entire city is in general an uncared for area, which wouldn't be exactly untrue (I still love Athens tho)

@@TiananmenPrism Εxarchia is a dump, even for Athenian standards. Stop taking yourself and others for fools

​@@TiananmenPrismno wayan. Not as bad as Exarchia.

@@TiananmenPrism if most of Athens is now covered by graffiti, that is a huge change in the last 20 years and in my opinion, is a downright shame for such a beautiful and ancient city.

No, it's not a big subsidy, it's turning a decaying building into something that benefits the community - as opposed to a subsidized business who sucks tax payers money through the state and whose only aim is always to extract maximum value from the community and buy Porsches. I'm pretty certain that the problem with Greek taxes are not little fish and occupied buildings not paying real estate taxes, it's the big corruption, top companies and state itself.

Greeks have been tax evading for hundreds of years not since 1960

@@zaratrusta79 CORRECT!

The eu is corrupt also

Don't exaggarate my friend

Like the corruption of Hungary and Poland and Italy and Cyprus

@@giorgismaximos8662 Maybe it sounds like an exaggeration, but in Europe it is a considered a serious matter for a prime minister to spy on opposition and it should be reported on. The separation of powers in non existant in Greece. Greeks, like Turks, do not fully comprehend the importance of this seperation to democratic values and this is why it should be reported on by European media. Citizens of other EU countries have a right to know about the political sh*tshow you call an exaggeration. And even if you don't even know what the seperation of powers is, it only takes a look at statistics to notice that Greece is the second most corrupt state in the EU. Numbers don't exaggerate.

@@bellerophon5566 It is an exaggeration to consider all Greek politicians and government are corrupt amid scandals Conversation monitoring is a scandal for Greece and ofc EU. There is corruption in all European countries According to the Report, Greece is among the European countries that have significantly improved their position in the CPI over the last10 years. Separation of powers exists in the Greek constitution, Greeks established it , like democracy. There is no comparison between Greece and Turkey What is a scndal for Greece and Europe is routine in Turkey

Bahaha, name five left wing terrorist groups and I will give you fifty right wing ones. You probably think anarchy means chaos.

Almost as if the presence of the militants creates the space the first group enjoys so much. There didn't simply appear an alternative, creative, inclusive city quarter that then was invaded by militant leftists. The militants created it and they are fighting to keep that space open. Some go to far, of course. But those two sides of the coin are inseparable. Exarchia is a community that accumulated around an anarchist movement. The community is the very thing the anarchists tried to create in the first place. That's what anarchism ia about.

This kind of space was possible because it was created by those people you called militant anarchists and leftwing terrosists.

It's the Portland of Greeks

Name some examples of actual terror attacks by these groups. Because normally there isn't a single example, just destruction of property, which is classified as terrorism.

What is money just a symbolic. It creates class Warfare.

@@terhgasabeha9552 Money is a measure of work. Someone has to do work to get food on the table, heating, electricity etc. And sure it is not fair as some ppl have it easy and make a lot of money. Those who burned the car of a poor fellow would need to consider the years of work the owner had to do to buy that car.

@@kostas--- I'm not talking about civil disobedient.

Sure, buddy.

Yes it is.

@@postcollapse1170 Says who? You?

It is

ever been there? because it isnt scary at all, even women arent scared to out and have fun at 3 am. you know a neighborhood is "violent and hostile" when you never see women after 8pm.

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These days new Jersey is much worse then the bronx. The projects were torn down in the 90s.

The Spartans needs to arise once again

Don't know how many police offficers patrol the Bronx but Exarchia is full of police. Funny thing is, if you call the police to report a stabbing, they're not gonna show out of fear (despite being armed with modern gear). I doubt any police force has more cowards than the Greek police force.

@@bellerophon5566 that was a Bronx thing for sure. It ended in the 90s tho. Definitely something that needs work. Greece has a lot of potential.

You are thousands of years out of touch or you simply want to act high minded when you just look like a fool.

So what u means?

@@joexavier2287 I meant the article is about gentrification of Exarchia and I said that it's inevitable that Exarchia will gentrify as Greece gets richer (through tourism) so you should enjoy Exarchia as it is now. What do you think?

LOL.This video has no connection with reality whatsoever.It's pure fiction.

No

What is their to enjoy? Riots, chaos and junkies? 😂

Says much about the place

Now tell us how much you believe in democracy and tolerance.

@@blackadder6897 Much more than those thugs who don't have any coherent argument hence try to make a point with violence and vandalism

@@deductionism My comment is for @woohoohaha7607.

A crime ridden hellhole

It is a problematic and violent place.

That is not a good comparison lol

@@HShango I don't know. I've never been to that part of Greece. I do know that Gentrification has ruined my manor for many folk. Especially a class that could be called outsiders.

that isnt gentrification in any way because thats literally the people who built exarcheia. from the beginning of exarcheias anarchist history it was young, alternative, diverse, (not liberal) anarchist people who made it this way.

​@astralgod6448 They literally didn't build anything. They moved in, established a community and prevented further development. That's not saying they didn't do any good. Obviously there would have been very little development in a stagnant economy. They're describing themselves as the "locals" without any reference to the communities who lived there *before* they moved in. They seem very inward looking without much thought for the needs of the communities around them.

@@GlasPthalocyanine maybe i wasn't clear, im not talking about buildings or infrastructure or anything like that, im talking about the culture, the foods, restaurants, the arts. everything like that. exarcheia has been a creative cultural centre of athens since the 80's. from musicians, to huge actors, to directors, to theatre, to everything. most creative thinkers of greece either lived, or hang out in exarchia.

@@astralgod6448 so it's a "cultural centre" for mostly young, single, able bodied people who aren't relying on much infrastructure. So, not very diverse at all.

@@GlasPthalocyanine "young" i would disagree. if you are pursuing a creative job, you will meet a lot of teachers, etc, people in the business that were raised in exarxia or live/ lived there. and are 40+ years old. single? i dont know what that has to do with anything. able bodied? as someone who's travelled europe and seen very robust, developed infrastructure, greece's infrastructure does not in any way help diff abled bodies. greece is horrible for differently abled people, this isnt unique to exarchia. we don't have good infrastructure for differently abled people.

Alexander never lived in Athens, he almost put it to the sword after burning down Thebes.

@@emperorofthegreatunknown4394 I said, IF...bone 🦴 head. But thanks for the history lesson.

Idk...@@garysuplee5092 seems to be the bonehead to me, just saying🤷🏾‍♂️

@@IK_MK your gay.

@@garysuplee5092 you don't even have proper grammar 💀 it's you're

That's racist. You're supposed to love chaos and destruction unconditionally.

@@beautifulempatheticliberal5204 lmao

You are conditioned not to like grafitti by the institutions which graffiti exposes as oppresive . You see a mess.... because you are kept blind.

@@quaoar213 Sure bud, it take you a PhD to be that dumb.

I know 😱🤮

You’re probably talking about most American neighborhoods.Never been a mass shooting of toddlers as in the good old USA.

​@@steveg8322probably happens because those cities are run like exarchia

This is ghettophication