Greece, all the way down
The free Greece page has the real math. This is what free content structurally can't do: nine topics broken into the specific decisions you'll actually face.
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Healthcare
EOPYY sounds like the free-healthcare answer. For most American retirees on a passive-income visa, it isn’t automatic, and the island-vs-mainland gap is real.
Open page →💳Money & Banking
Greece has something Portugal doesn’t: a 7% flat tax on foreign pension income. It’s real, it has real strings attached, and it doesn’t cover everything you think it does.
Open page →🏠Housing & Neighborhoods
Real rent ranges across Athens, Crete, and a Peloponnese town, and the island-vs-mainland tradeoff nobody spells out.
Open page →📍Destinations
Six real places Americans actually retire in Greece, not Santorini and Mykonos, which are expensive, tourist-saturated, and not typical retiree picks.
Open page →🧾Bureaucracy & Legal
The FIP visa is the actual retirement visa. The Golden Visa is a real-estate investment that happens to come with a residence card. Confusing the two costs people money.
Open page →🍽️Food & Daily Rhythm
What groceries actually cost, why the Mediterranean diet is a genuine daily-life factor here, and how late dinner really runs.
Open page →👥Social Life & Language
A smaller, more scattered expat community than Portugal’s, a genuine alphabet barrier, and what actually builds friendships at 55+.
Open page →⛅Safety & Climate by Season
Genuinely safe by most measures. Climate splits sharply between the mainland, the islands, and the meltemi season nobody warns you about.
Open page →✈️Travel & Family
Fewer direct US routes than Western Europe, a real seasonal squeeze on flights, and what island living adds to the logistics.
Open page →A consultant, a Facebook group, or this. Here's the honest difference.
There are two real ways people already get through this without paying us anything, plus one traditional way that costs a lot more. Worth being upfront about how those compare, since you already know they exist.
A relocation consultant
$2,000 and up, sometimes considerably more. You get a person, dedicated attention, and someone doing the paperwork with you or for you. For a first-time, complicated situation, that can be worth it.
A Facebook expat group
Free, and genuinely useful: real people answering real questions in real time. What you don't get: any way to verify who's answering, or a reliable way to search past answers once a thread scrolls away.
Community: $12/mo
Not a replacement for either one. Closer to the second option than the first: current information, real people who've done this, a place to ask a specific question. It costs less than a single hour of most consultants' time.
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