Ask all the younger Greeks that had to leave their country and come over to Germany what they think about their Internet.
Ask how many of them have a home-based job in the UK, Denmark or Germany, but feel they can not go back simply because they don't have a minimally decent internet infrastructure to be doing fully remote work.
Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season.
Of course, it's not the only thing that is lacking in Greece. But I can guarantee you that is one of the things that is holding it back.
Uh, perhaps I was too long away, perhaps I'm too old, but what's wrong with Internet connectivity in Germany?
I got here (town of less then 25k souls) 100Mbps (the least I could realistically chose) last year, RTT to nearest google server is 22ms (116ms to Amazon though). There's some commotion in town to get us each 1Gbps (which is IMHO absurd). Took a while to install it (partly due to history of the premise), but I don't think it has been down since I got it.
Honestly, if it is any worse than Internet in the S.F. Bay area, I haven't noticed it yet.
100%. I get better internet here in a small town in the third world at the bottom of Africa than I did in Salamis (very short boat ride from Athens for non-Greek readers).
Of course, my experience has a 10+ year gap now, things have definitely grown in Greece as OP has highlighted in the post, but I remember still having 100+ ping while connecting to European servers. Nowadays from Cape Town I "only" hit 150.
> Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season.
Maybe instead they should look into making their hotels into "doctor house", or "teacher house" or generally "something affordable by public workers" so that people who move to the island to do their job can have a reasonable life without competing with north EU nomads for living space.
Ask all the younger Greeks that had to leave their country and come over to Germany what they think about their Internet.
Ask how many of them have a home-based job in the UK, Denmark or Germany, but feel they can not go back simply because they don't have a minimally decent internet infrastructure to be doing fully remote work.
Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season.
Of course, it's not the only thing that is lacking in Greece. But I can guarantee you that is one of the things that is holding it back.