The evolving economic crisis, in the context of which Greece has become notorious worldwide, has led to a strict program of austerity measures, which includes severe cuts in salaries and pensions, tax increases and a series of reforms in labour law and pension rights. Such measures lead to a less debated aspect of the crisis, namely cuts in care and welfare, which compromise life chances of many, particularly women, both local and migrant. In our globalised times, a significant part of care work has become a paid job for thousands of migrant women, either in the context of international chains or as part of more spontaneous migration movements from the ‘global South’. Such movements (which for Greece originate mainly in the Balkans and the former Eastern Bloc) contribute to reconfigure everyday lives as transnational. At the same time, they shape new geographies care deficits and involve complex negotiations of power among women and men, local and migrant, employers and workers and combinations of these. The paper takes changing patterns of care as an entry point from which to approach intersections of gender, class and ethnicity in the making of the city and its neighbourhoods, based on research in Athens. Starting from ‘the everyday’ as a theoretical and methodological proposition, the paper aims to discuss the ways in which everyday practices are constituted and evolve in a variety of interlocking geographical scales and the importance of scale, movement and settlement in transnational city lives.