Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

seven-day-weekend

Off-topic joke just come through on my e-mail from my friend in the United Arab Emirates:


'Mr. Clark, I have reviewed this case very carefully,' the divorce Court Judge said, 'And I've decided to give your wife $775 a week,'

'That's very fair, your honor,' the husband said. 'And every now and then I'll try to send her a few bucks myself.'

droopsnout

sloan wrote: »

Hi Droopsnout

There is a big difference between Cyprus and Northern Cyprus. One is Greek and in the EU and the other is Turkish and unrecognised.

Ah. Is the site I linked to just for the Greek part, then?

I knew, of course, of the division of the island, but never thought to check that the forum was for both communities.

I hope it's warmer there than here, because it's suddenly gone quite chilly here! Think I'm off to bed to keep warm!

Merrywidow

Welcome from me too Sloan - we love to get to know new members. Good luck with Cyprus - the only thing I picked up on a while ago on an ex-pat forum in Cyprus was the unreliability of the water supply. But then again that was for the Greek part.

Wait for it Droopsnout - the sun is a-comin' - weather forcast for next week is promising 16 oC - lovely. when it leaves us you should get your share. Boy am I sick of this very very long wet and cold winter.

Merrywidow

Where are you Donny-Gal - you are very quiet - are you still struggling with your dial up hours. Are you sad that you have had to stay in Spain for a while. Was thinking of you today when you should have been on your crossing to Dover. How is the blood pressure? Any results yet. Thinking of you.

Merrywidow

I too have an 'off topic' item. Small world. I tune into a geneology forum as I have been compiling my family tree for some time now. I have a paternal great grandad William Williams, Grandad William Williams and a Father William Williams all from Grangetown in Yorkshire. They lived in Wood Street and Staplyton Street in the mid 1800's. My father of course in the early 1900's

Forum new best friend - ditto - ditto - ditto and streets both ditto. How small is our world. We are not related but at one stage they were three doors away from each other. Oh yes, and they were all born in Wales. You really couldn't make it up could you?

sloan

Hi
Yes, water is often a problem on North Cyprus. Mains water gets pumped into a 2 ton underground storage tank and then pumped to the roof. Some is solar heated and then gravity fed down. If the tanks empty, you can order a water tanker, but I think we have only done this once.

We are oing over on April 7th and then for the summr hols. I booked the floghts before I decided to retire, so have flights back at the end of the summer for the beginning of the new term. We will come back for a few weeks, but when we go back again, will stay semi-permanently.

Will keep you posted as to how we get on. As North Cyprus is unrecognised by anyone other than Turkey, it does not have any of the shops/businesses that proliferate elsewhwere - no MacDonalds, Marks and Spencers, KFC etc, although it is now easy to cross over to the Greek part of Nicosia if people cannot live without them.

However, Northern Cyprus' isolation has given it a certain charm.

seven-day-weekend

sloan wrote: »

Hi
Yes, water is often a problem on North Cyprus. Mains water gets pumped into a 2 ton underground storage tank and then pumped to the roof. Some is solar heated and then gravity fed down. If the tanks empty, you can order a water tanker, but I think we have only done this once.

We are oing over on April 7th and then for the summr hols. I booked the floghts before I decided to retire, so have flights back at the end of the summer for the beginning of the new term. We will come back for a few weeks, but when we go back again, will stay semi-permanently.

Will keep you posted as to how we get on. As North Cyprus is unrecognised by anyone other than Turkey, it does not have any of the shops/businesses that proliferate elsewhwere - no MacDonalds, Marks and Spencers, KFC etc, although it is now easy to cross over to the Greek part of Nicosia if people cannot live without them.

However, Northern Cyprus' isolation has given it a certain charm.

With the exception of MacD's and KFC we don't have these in Spain either - at least not in Andalucia - although if you can't do without them you can go to Gibraltar.

sloan

Since reading the site more regularly (since I started actually planning my retirement), I have been on a learning curve with the abbreviations. Is there a key anywhere? Who are the skiers and skaters? I have googled, but without success.

seven-day-weekend

Ah!

SKI = Spending Kids' Inheritance. So SKI-ers are doing just that!

SKA-ters are people without kids who are also enjoying their money and it stands for Spending Kash And Thoroughly Enjoying Results.

Do you want to join us? I think the next number is 10!

(I also thought of a few more acronyms:

CRAPs - Cash Rich, Asset Poor = someone who has sold their house ready to relocate abroad.
AR SEs - Asset Rich Sterling Extinct - those Brits who have already relocated, bought a house and run out of money because of the exchange rate. Like one or two of us on here! )

sloan

Thanks for that. Am definitely a skier, with the blessing of both of my daughters. How do I join? I do not intend to sell up in England - love living in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park - but cannot stand the winters, so will not be a CRAP or an !!!!.