RE: The secret to having many people in a given area living long lives is living in a place with little or no record of their date of birth.
The Greek economy might be tanking, but even they are not so backwards that they fail to keep birth certificate records. This is not a primitive country. This is a country that hosted the Olympics in 2004.
...Close multi-generational families.....old guys keep working ...(carpenter, beekeeper, goat-herder, fisherman, ...) take afternoon naps and don’t wear watches.