Buyers of holiday flats are thus welcome too. Foreign entrepreneurs who live on Crete all the year over and do business here, are welcome. But one should be prepared for tough competition with very creative and flexible Cretan competitors. Everybody works for himself here. Cooperation on this level is not the Cretan's cause.
Family comes always first.
Caused by the historic agricultural structure of the Cretan society, nearly every Cretan family has it's roots in one of the many villages. The houses of their parents, grand parents and so on are there. This custom is not realized so strictly any more. But they are still there, the family conferences, where the parents and other family members of the bride and groom meet before the engagement and battle for the future of their children. The house stays in her possession and since old times guarantees her social protection, if the marriage should go wrong.