Complaing about your country/state/city
Jul 4, 2018 5:27:22 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 5:27:22 GMT -5
Welp, i said that someone should make this thread and i decided to do it myself. This thread is pretty much the opposite of nixty's thread and to just to clear things up, i live in Greece and quite a few of the points i'm going to mention are amplified because of the debt crisis. So, here we go...
Prepare for a big post lmfao
- Education: Now, in theory the educational system in Greece isn't half-bad actually even if you don't get to decide what subjects you want to focus on only after 10th grade but still, it isn't terrible. The biggest problem however is that the salaries for teachers are terrible (around 500-600 euros) which makes a lot of them really disinterested at their job, which as a result makes a lot of students disinterested at school aswell. For many school hours, there is just chaos in the classroom because most students don't really care about the subjects and the teachers don't get paid enough to actually care about the subject they're teaching. Now, there are exceptions, but these are few and far between, so students who actually want to do sth with their lives have to go to sth called φροντιστήριο, which is basically an afternoon school, that is private. So in order to actually learn anything above let's say 9th grade, you have to spend a lot of money to learn stuff that the regular public schools should teach. That's just bad....
- Healthcare: I actaully have experience from both public and private hospitals so this will be interesting. Now the healthcare system isn't as bad as let's say, the US, but it still has its fair share problems. Let's start with private hospitals, which since they're private they've been pretty much unfazed by the crisis. If you go to one, you'll see new equipment, somewhat friendly staff, they have nice-looking interiors. They're pretty good. Two problems arise though, the first being that since they're private, you have to pay for everything unless you have insurance. The second and probably more serious problem is that because they're private, most people prefer public hospital so the doctors don't have the some experience as doctors in public hospitals. As a result, it is way more likely that you'll get a second injury on top of the first, most likely caused by human error. As for the public hospitals, they're for the most part the complete opposite of the private ones. Public hospitals are underfunded, so new equipment is pretty much unheard of and they're always flooded with other people. One huge advantage to the public hospitals though, is that the staff have a clearer idea of what's your problem, so there aren't as many errors. Also, they're free, and you can never argue about free hospital visits amirite
- Corruption: I'm going to keep this brief and just say that Greece is a corrupt mess. Although we're higher than the average on the Corruption Perceptions Index, it's still not good enough. Corruption in Greece ranges from sth mild, such as bribing an official to be more leniant on your tests, so you can get your driver's licence more easily to sth more extreme like hiding a huge amount of debt from its own citizens and international organizations. Also when it comes to corruption it's actually embeded to the culture aswell. People don't get tickets for buses/metro, not giving reciepts to customers etc.
- Public transit: Now, this more of a problem for Athens, since other cities don't really need public transit because they're not populous enough. Anyways, there are a few problems with public transit. Firstly, the over-emphasis on buses instead of metros. Buses are not reliable enough and for the most part, they're going to be stuck in traffic, just like if you were taking a car. Secondly, it doesn't reach enough people. Take Frankfurt for example with has a similar population to Athens. Frankfurt has 9 metro lines and 10 streetcar lines. Meanwhile Athens has 3 subway lines and 3 streetcar lines. You can see how much of a disparety this really is. Frankfurt is has 300,000 less people than Athens, has more than triple the subway and tram lines. Not to mention that a lot of people still use veachles instead of transit, because for some reason people think that if they need to walk for more than 5 minutes it's too much, which creates more problems like higher smog levels.
Anyways, i can't really think of anything else rn, i might update it soon, if i think of any more problems i want to mention sooooo.... yeah.
Prepare for a big post lmfao
- Education: Now, in theory the educational system in Greece isn't half-bad actually even if you don't get to decide what subjects you want to focus on only after 10th grade but still, it isn't terrible. The biggest problem however is that the salaries for teachers are terrible (around 500-600 euros) which makes a lot of them really disinterested at their job, which as a result makes a lot of students disinterested at school aswell. For many school hours, there is just chaos in the classroom because most students don't really care about the subjects and the teachers don't get paid enough to actually care about the subject they're teaching. Now, there are exceptions, but these are few and far between, so students who actually want to do sth with their lives have to go to sth called φροντιστήριο, which is basically an afternoon school, that is private. So in order to actually learn anything above let's say 9th grade, you have to spend a lot of money to learn stuff that the regular public schools should teach. That's just bad....
- Healthcare: I actaully have experience from both public and private hospitals so this will be interesting. Now the healthcare system isn't as bad as let's say, the US, but it still has its fair share problems. Let's start with private hospitals, which since they're private they've been pretty much unfazed by the crisis. If you go to one, you'll see new equipment, somewhat friendly staff, they have nice-looking interiors. They're pretty good. Two problems arise though, the first being that since they're private, you have to pay for everything unless you have insurance. The second and probably more serious problem is that because they're private, most people prefer public hospital so the doctors don't have the some experience as doctors in public hospitals. As a result, it is way more likely that you'll get a second injury on top of the first, most likely caused by human error. As for the public hospitals, they're for the most part the complete opposite of the private ones. Public hospitals are underfunded, so new equipment is pretty much unheard of and they're always flooded with other people. One huge advantage to the public hospitals though, is that the staff have a clearer idea of what's your problem, so there aren't as many errors. Also, they're free, and you can never argue about free hospital visits amirite
- Corruption: I'm going to keep this brief and just say that Greece is a corrupt mess. Although we're higher than the average on the Corruption Perceptions Index, it's still not good enough. Corruption in Greece ranges from sth mild, such as bribing an official to be more leniant on your tests, so you can get your driver's licence more easily to sth more extreme like hiding a huge amount of debt from its own citizens and international organizations. Also when it comes to corruption it's actually embeded to the culture aswell. People don't get tickets for buses/metro, not giving reciepts to customers etc.
- Public transit: Now, this more of a problem for Athens, since other cities don't really need public transit because they're not populous enough. Anyways, there are a few problems with public transit. Firstly, the over-emphasis on buses instead of metros. Buses are not reliable enough and for the most part, they're going to be stuck in traffic, just like if you were taking a car. Secondly, it doesn't reach enough people. Take Frankfurt for example with has a similar population to Athens. Frankfurt has 9 metro lines and 10 streetcar lines. Meanwhile Athens has 3 subway lines and 3 streetcar lines. You can see how much of a disparety this really is. Frankfurt is has 300,000 less people than Athens, has more than triple the subway and tram lines. Not to mention that a lot of people still use veachles instead of transit, because for some reason people think that if they need to walk for more than 5 minutes it's too much, which creates more problems like higher smog levels.
Anyways, i can't really think of anything else rn, i might update it soon, if i think of any more problems i want to mention sooooo.... yeah.
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