{"id":23072,"date":"2026-10-07T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/e1200-athens-job-splits-greek-reddit-on-cost-of-living-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:57:37","slug":"e1200-athens-job-splits-greek-reddit-on-cost-of-living-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/e1200-athens-job-splits-greek-reddit-on-cost-of-living-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac1,200 Athens Job Splits Greek Reddit on Cost of Living \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A job offer of \u20ac1,100 to \u20ac1,200 in Athens is the latest post on r\/greece<\/a> to turn into an argument about whether work in the capital is enough to live on.<\/h2>\n

The writer, posting as Nikosmp88, said they had been offered a role at one of the big gaming companies and asked whether it was worth leaving the provinces. The questions under it were practical: can that salary cover a month, and how do you find a flat if you are already working and cannot sit in Athens house-hunting? One suggestion in the thread was a hotel while you look. The replies treated that as part of the problem, not a solution.<\/p>\n

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The post sits next to a longer one that has been circulating on the same forum: why young people in Greece work and still cannot live. A contributor who left in 2014 argued that the country has built a convenient story about life in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, and that the harder comparison is at home. They cited Eurostat figures for 2024: Greece had the highest housing-cost overburden rate in the EU, at 28.9 per cent; 19 per cent could not keep the home adequately warm; 43 per cent were behind on mortgage, rent or utility bills.<\/p>\n

A separate item on the same feed gives the argument a name and a number. The rector of the University of Patras said about 400 students who passed the exams did not enrol this year. Families, he said, are worrying about the rent.<\/p>\n

None of this is a poll. r\/greece is a comment thread, and the salaries in it are offers, not a national average. What the forum is describing is the gap between a job that sounds acceptable and a month that does not close: a gaming salary in Athens, a student place in Patras, and the same question under both.<\/p>\n

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