“The Israeli I drove not long ago, every sign we passed he asked if it said ‘For Sale’ and almost every house we drove drew questions about how much it was worth,” said Effie, a taxi driver from the city of Volos in eastern Greece. Her experience is most likely shared by no small number of Greek taxi drivers in recent years – and particularly after October 7 – amid an apparent Israeli rush to buy up real estate across the country.
But Effie is probably accustomed to driving Israelis who are looking to invest in property, enjoy the return promised by Israeli real estate agents or at least find a haven for the summer months. When she heard we were going to meet an Israeli couple who decided to move to Greece, her eyes widened and she turned her head toward me, just as we were passing a particularly winding part of the road straddling the beautiful hills of the Pelion peninsula. “They’re staying for the winter too? They’re forever?”
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