Cultural Post #8

[Daniel Matthew Kunath]

In Greece, construction is very different from in America.  For the most part, people live in houses that they or their ancestors built.  Nobody buys houses, but they are passed down through the family.  The housing market is slim, and the houses themselves are substantially different from American homes.  Here, where wood is plentiful, most houses are made of wood; likewise, houses in Greece are mostly made of stone, since it is cheap and accessible.  We have received criticism for buying homes like possessions and for building them out of flammable materials.  Without going into a roasting session, the ideas of building a home a particular way are as foreign to the opposite sides of the Atlantic as the languages are.