It used to be 2.5 EUR or so, but now it's risen due to inflation. Keep in mind that in Greece, your family will also support you if you're unemployed, so it's not uncommon for parents to share their pension or children to share their salary with the family.
>Keep in mind that in Greece, your family will also support you if you're unemployed
That's cool, if you have a family nearby or you're a in a good relationship with yours. Sucks for those who do not, which is why social safety nets are more important. You pay taxes but in case you fall down, the safety net should catch you make sure you don't end up on the streets if you don't have a family nearby.
Again, that's Us-centric thinking. If you're unemployed and don't have family nearby, you either move there to save on costs, or they send you money. There are very few people here who have a relationship with their families so bad that the family won't support them, because it's a social expectation. That's the definition of a social safety net, as it's a safety net that society institutes.
Not it isn't, I'm European from a European centric thinking. What you're talking about applies if young people choose to continue living in the same village where they were born and their family still lives, but that hasn't been the case in a long time. Young people (in Europe) move to big metro areas for university or jobs, and often, especially in Greece, they move to other EU countries.
Your family from some Greek village, won't be able to come take care of you in Amsterdam, and most likely they won't have the money to support your NL living expenses from their Greek pensions to help you out, nor will you moving from Amsterdam back to some Greek village help you out too much since there's no jobs in your niche there, or maybe even no jobs at all so now you're broke in Greece instead of broke in Amsterdam but with less job options.
Your PoV scenario is just unrealistic in the world of today and only applies in the traditionalistic tribal village lifestyle that's more or less dead nowadays and few live it. Sure, some lucked out and were born in afluent big metro areas with universities and jobs meaning they always have their family close by, but that's more the exception rather than the rule. If you look at international cities like Munich or Berlin, most people living there weren't actually born there or have family there, they just moved there for study/work. How can family help them then?
I kind of feel like you can't lecture someone from a small Greek village on what life for people from small greek villages is like unless you've lived there.
I know plenty of people who emigrated to the Netherlands, I don't know anyone who was poor and emigrated there (they don't speak enough foreign languages to have a hope) or that lived there for more than a few months while unable to get a job
Who are these people who go be unemployed in a high CoL country?
Anyway, that's my opinion, and trying to correct people from other cultures that tell me my opinions on my culture cannot be right is tiring, so I'll leave it here.
>I kind of feel like you can't lecture someone from a small Greek village on what life for people from small greek villages is like unless you've lived there.
I wasn't lecturing, I was using Greece as an example that would be familiar to you, but feel free to use any other country where people emigrate from to go to a high CoL country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.
>I don't know anyone who was poor and emigrated there (they don't speak enough foreign languages to have a hope) or that lived there for more than a few months while unable to get a job
I do. Plenty of Eastern Europeans moved to high CoL countries without knowing the language or having credentials and many found jobs, not the best jobs, but being on minimum wage in Sweden or Austria is better than being broke in Romania or Bulgaria (again, assuming you don't have a well off family to help you out and many who are in the situation of taking minimum wage jobs abroad don't, since they also come from poor or broken families unable to support them, which is why social safety nets are important to catch and help such people and prevent them from perpetuating this cycle).
>Who are these people who go be unemployed in a high CoL country?
You don't "go to be unemployed in a high CoL country", I never said that, but unemployment can find you there when you get laid off, which is why safety nets are more important than a far away family from a low CoL country who has no way of helping you out.
>Anyway, that's my opinion, and trying to correct people from other cultures that tell me my opinions on my culture cannot be right is tiring, so I'll leave it here.
Regardless of your "culture", people not having parents to help out (orphans do exist you know) or family too poor to help out, is not really something that goes against the "culture" you keep harping here. Not everyone's family, Greek culture or not, will be able to help out, hence my point of tax funded welfare social nets being important. None of what you wrote so far is an argument against that.
