Thanks for sharing that, it's really interesting! I've seen a lot of buildings like that, not just in Greece but also in southern Italy as well as China, Taiwan and Laos. I always assumed it was an organized crime thing, where they over-budget and then under-build and somehow that washes the money. It's funny to think it's deliberate, just in case a future generation wants to add on another house upstairs.
I find it tough to talk about this stuff with local people, because i don't want them to think i am being critical. In China and Taiwan where i have had the opportunity to tangentially broach the subject with colleagues who should know better, they tend to brush it off as unimportant and not representative, which perhaps is their authentic opinion, but if it is then they're just part of the problem i think.
On the other hand, you could also look at it as a cultural propensity to clean stuff up, or not. Like in some countries, if a building is abandoned or the construction stalls, knock it down, build a new one, can't have that ugliness sitting there. But in other countries they just leave half-finished stuff around for years and it doesn't seem to bother anyone.
I find it tough to talk about this stuff with local people, because i don't want them to think i am being critical. In China and Taiwan where i have had the opportunity to tangentially broach the subject with colleagues who should know better, they tend to brush it off as unimportant and not representative, which perhaps is their authentic opinion, but if it is then they're just part of the problem i think.
On the other hand, you could also look at it as a cultural propensity to clean stuff up, or not. Like in some countries, if a building is abandoned or the construction stalls, knock it down, build a new one, can't have that ugliness sitting there. But in other countries they just leave half-finished stuff around for years and it doesn't seem to bother anyone.
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