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It is sad what you mention.

The commoditisation, clustering and gentrification of landscape and living is world-wide phenomenon.

At Corsica FLNC fought with bombing against hijacking of landscape by vacationers. But xenophobia solves nothing.

Revolution? Slow collapse? Some way out of the cities and back to the countryside? Idk. Time will tell.

It's not about xenophobia, more like fear that the greek landscape we know won't be like this in the future. But greeks are not xenophobic, i would say the opposite. They seem to just enjoy the free money from selling their properties to anyone but don't care about what's left. Islands are getting over-built, Mykonos has become like a tiny Dubai, most popular greek beaches (e.g. Sarakiniko in Milos) are getting constructed with luxury hotels with pools, etc destroying the natural landscape, island villages are getting bought by foreigners who visit Greece for 10 days every 2 or 3 years. What's left behind? Who will work as a regular plumber or baker there? Who will preserve the iconic greek island architecture in future buildings there? The non existent and corrupt construction laws or the foreigners who might not care enough for one of their remote properties (probably just used for extra income via airbnb)?

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