But now the process is being reversed - Greeks are moving in the other direction, away from urban financial hardship as the effect of the crisis deepens.

BBC: Journey across crisis-hit Greece

Then there were the Perwaja Steel losses, the water crisis, environmental disasters, the vicious eviction of urban squatters, deaths in police custody.

CNN: What the reform movement really means

That ignored the much greater economic crisis which quickly engulfed tourism and other countryside (and urban) businesses.

BBC: Foot-and-mouth: A Pyrrhic victory?

Urban poverty, a too-common remnant of the 1997 financial crisis, ought to be giving way to GDP growth statistics that are respectable for Southeast Asia.

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