It is my first post here so first of all I would like to wish to all of you Happy 2012!
The reason I am posting here is because I would like to have an insight from foreigners living on Greece how they experienced their settlement to this country as well as how friendly is Greece to foreigners. By this, I do not mean if Greeks are friendly or not to you but how is the real life of a foreigner living in Greece. For example, how do you deal with bureaucracy, how easy you find to get around the city (mainly Athens), do you find news / information about events or cultural (or not) activities in English language .. and so on...
Although I am native Greek and only for the past 6 years I am living abroad, now, I am located in Taiwan with my girlfriend (Taiwanese) and recently I have been thinking to suggest to her to come back to Greece to live (smart idea during this period of time right?... however I do not have a specific time frame). Any ways, as I believe that if I was a foreigner living in Greece I would not be that happy with the every day life there, I would like to hear the opinions/experiences of foreigners living in Greece (if Asians even better..) . I have been visiting the forum for some time and went through many posts but maybe some may have something to add or mentions for this specific case.
Through my experience of living these 6 years in 3 different countries, I think I can imagine some difficulties but from your experience, have you faced some particular difficulties while being in Greece?
It would not hurt to mention also what you may like as well ;-)
The main reason I am asking is that, in case, we/she decide(s) to come to Greece I will really need to support her in many levels and in many different situations. I know this will be hard for both of us and it is a move that may affect also our relationship. For this reason I am a bit worried and that is why I wish to get to know better Greece from an expat's point of view.
I know that it is a quite broad and open end question but any input would be quite helpful.
Thank you all.