When we were in Greece a few years ago we noticed they have rebar and concrete blocks on the second floor of their “unfinished” houses...therefore, they don’t have to pay taxes because it is unfinished. Also, at a cafe we sat for some great coffee. There were no woman there in the middle of the day. I asked one of the men where the women were. He replied “at work where they should be”. They hung out for hours sipping their coffee. In the cities there were many ostentatious displays of wealth. The countryside seemed to have many poor people.
Athens has been a big boys club stretching back to classical times. Women did all the work and the men got to go down and hang out with other men in the Agora.