Anyone who had ever travelled to greece or some of these fringe EU countries had to have seen this coming. Greece using a currency as expensive as the Euro was a complete and utter joke. Their infrastructure is barely above that of Mexico and the currency was worth 8X as much.
I was there 2 years before they had the olympics and you could just see their impending doom, the general laziness of taking 3 hours off in the middle of the day. Shops that are closed at random days and random hours. Signs on stores that say when they will open and you get there and they arent open, hotels that give away your reservation even though you arrived before check in time - Italy seemed equally as disorganized when I went there.
Its probably why I hold Switzerland in such high regard, I visited there after Greece and Italy, and compared to those 2, Switzerland was like sweet Nirvana, except of course for the 16.99 Bic Mac combo
But the sweet model train stores and underground malls and just the general awesomeness of Switzerland made it that much more of an awesome place.