Catherine Iacovelli-Hamon and her husband, Yvan, on the coast in Granville, France, on February 15. The couple moved to Granville after working six days a week for 20 years at their tobacco and newspaper shop in Caen. [Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times]
A new platform has been launched in Canada aiming to assist those considering relocating to Greece.
“Greece Retirement Guide,” launched by Laurie Keza, a veteran journalist and political analyst, arrives at a moment of particular strategic relevance. Greece is actively positioning itself as a destination for internationally mobile retirees, having introduced a preferential non-domicile tax regime, expanded its digital public administration infrastructure, and invested politically in the concept of foreign residential investment.
“The project responds to the dozens of people who tell me at every opportunity that they would like to live in Greece,” Keza said. “We help them make that decision, writing even in analytical detail about the wind and the cold of the Cyclades in winter. It is not addressed to tourists, it is for those who want to live in Greece permanently or semi-permanently.”
The site is organized around four pillars -destinations, housing, settling in, and daily life- a taxonomy that mirrors the chronological logic of relocation itself, from the choice of location to the navigation of Greek bureaucracy on arrival. Its coverage moves from destination profiles of Syros, Nafplio, and Keramoti to technical guides on verifying a real estate agent’s legal registration in the General Commercial Registry, understanding the tax identification system, and operating within the government’s digital portal Gov.gr.
