Vanishing Greece - Foreign Correspondent
Here is a video report from ABC (Australia) Foreign Correspondent about the plight of villages in the rural Arcadia region of Greece.
Greece is a highly urbanized country. Nearly half of Greece's population lives in and around the capital, Athens. The economic crisis accelerated this trend towards urbanization.
In some ways Greece never really recovered from austerity measures taken during the financial crisis of 2008. One in five lost their jobs, youth unemployment skyrocketed, and hundreds of thousands left the country. Those that remain (or those that have returned) feel as if the promise of a stable life has been broken, and therefore delay marriage and childbearing.
Greece's center-right government rejects immigration as a solution to the demographic problem, but would like to lure back the young people who fled in the wake of the financial crisis.