He chose to live in Australia, not merely survive in Greece

Although he didn’t build his life in his struggling homeland, George Staikos from Pamfio, Aetolia-Acarnania, never forgot the gifts Greece gave him. His carpenter’s hands crafted wooden toys, stacked bottles in factories, and made chairs in his own woodworking workshop. However, it was in foreign lands that they achieved their greatest work: with those hands, he placed the wedding ring on his beloved’s finger and cared for his cherished children. A journey that began when George refused to merely survive in the country that “birthed” him, choosing instead to live fully in the one that embraced him.