The scarcity of fresh water - a great problem for the local people - has been commemoreted in a verse, written by some unknown visitor to the area in the past, which is still said nowadays:

“Avgonima is a nice village -
with a disadvantage, though.
By the time you pour the
water, the pot has burnt!”

This is still another proof of the choice of the places for habitation, not only according to the fertility of the land and the abundance of fresh water but also with the needs for protection against invaders in mind.

During the 19th century, the people of Avgonima used to carry goods from one place to the other on their mules, or buy the local produce of the nothern villages, pack it and re-sell it at a profit.

There was an open-air weaving area in the village, countin at least four looms, on which they made different kinds of cloth for sale. There ’s a photo of women weaving in the book of H. Pernot (1901).

When the village was connected to Hora with new roads, most of the villagers - even women - turned to the production of coal. This is a profession still prospering nowadays. In the 1970s, many men from Avgonima worked at the harbour, in Hora, as porters.

The first signs of immigration to the USA were documented in 1916. Since then, many families have left their village in pursuit of a better future. After World War II, many of the doughnut makers in N. York were from Avgonima, having been instucted on the profession by Antonis and Nikos Mendinis, experts in the field, who came to N. York at the beginning of the 1950s.