Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Turkey Related Subjects => Cost of Living in Turkey => Topic started by: sominekebap on August 31, 2007, 10:44:21 AM
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TDN
In Besiktas there are places that request a rent of YTL10,000 for a 5 square meter office.
In Besiktas, one of the districts in Istanbul considered to be the place for shopping, rental prices have reached record sums on the Koyici Avenue called Carsi. Real Estate Agents say that the rental price for offices of 5-10 square meters is around YTL 10,000 a month and more.
:o
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I have to follow the real estate market very closely for my clients and you should see the rent on a crappy 2 bed apart in Cihangir which is no better then tower hamlets.
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I thought Cihangir was supposed to be the new Levent :)
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Cihangir is a toilet full of trannies and pikeys. Bebek is the place to be.
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yes. Was there last week.
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whats a pikey?
Moda Kadikoy is expensive. I went to galatasary to look at a room in an apartment. They wanted 600 lira for a poxy room that I wouldnt have put a gerbil in the place was dark gloomy and not very welcoming at all.
I am sharing an apartment with 2 other teachers and we each pay 530 lira. Then we discovered another 73 lira EACH slapped on top of that for apartment maintenance and heating. So that is another 150 lira on top of the rent we were told in the first place. Exit stage left at some point I think...........................
There was an article in TDN recently about students not being able to find cheap digs near to the universities so many of them share to lessen the costs.
Rentals here are outrageous in my view. Although Moda is an expensive area. Bakirkoy you can get 2 bed apartments for 500 lira depending on the area I suppose so a Turkish friend of mine told me.
Bebek is also expensive I have heard.
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Copied From the Urban Dictionary
From the English "turnpike", the place where itinerent travellers and thieves would camp near a settlement.
Pikey is not a racial group, the term is used to describe anyone who lives in a caravan or shares the same values and "culture" of "the travelling community", and whose main sources of income are as follows:
Stealing cars, flogging roses in pubs for "childrens' charities", nicking lead off roofs, burgling garden sheds, blagging entry to old peoples house to rob them, doing dodgy tarmac jobs ("we've got some black stuff left over from a job up the road"), sometimes with mint imperials used as a substitute for white chippings, or, reportedly, using snow to lay slabs on when the sand ran out, stealing your removed_by_swear_filter if they weren't in a bag and anything else that's not nailed down and anything that is nailed down but will fit in the back of an untaxed Transit when nobody's looking.
Characterised by lurchers on a string, a unintelligible language that "isn't English, it isn't Irish, it's just Pikey" (source: Film: Snatch), a penchant for harecoursing, ketamine, lighter fuel, fighting in pubs and shopping at Lidl
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Apart from that kkob they are bloody nice people i live near a load at Catalarik ,hope they don't read this wont have any fence left .
Lance
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Moda is cheap and so is Bakirkoy but it is a pain to get in to town from Bakirkoy and wouldnt dream of living there. 150 lira for kapici and heating is very cheap.
Galata was and still is in most areas a toilet where the dregs of society lives but a lot of the old abandoned houses are now getting renovated thanks to a new law and some of them are really nice. I looked at one 2 bed place and they wanted 4500 euros for it.
Most expats live on the Bosphorus corridor between Ortakoy and Tarabya.
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Moda is not cheap Starman so I hate to have to disagree with you there. Turks say here that Moda is an expensive part of Kadikoy. Some parts of Bakirkoy I believe are becoming expensive depending on the area. Galatasary was a dump. 150 lira for kapici and heating might be cheap to you but not to us.
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Moda *is* cheap in comparison to many other areas of Istanbul and 150YTL for kapici AND heating is also cheap - a lot of folks would bite your hand off for a deal like that.
Nothing wrong with a good proportion of Cihangir either - like many areas, the gypsies are getting (have been) moved out in preparation for 2010.
JF
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Sorry Linda but you are wrong. Moda is cheap compared to all the other places expats live due to the fact it is on the Asian side.
I showed clients around a roof top terrace in Moda, 3 bed, 2 living rooms and an all around 350 sq meter terrace and the building was right by the sea with no road betwen it and the marmara. Asking price was 1400 euros per month. The same thing in Bebek would be over 10,000 USD per month.
My heating alone (not kapici) costs around 200 lira and that is on an independent system which I control like a nazi. I know of others paying 1500 ytl or more per month, so believe you me, you do have it good.
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Sorry starman but I am living here you are not. :) Every Turk I have spoken to says where I am living is expensive so it is not just me saying this I am reporting back what has been said to me by Turks.
Just because you have lived in Turkey for 15 years does not mean you are always RIGHT ok. :)
And stop following me around this forum like you have been doing do you fancy me or something???:P:P
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Wrong again. I DO live here in Istanbul and I DO know the rental markets in Istanbul because it is my JOB to know.
This week alone I have been helping clients find flats in Bostanci, Suadiye, Cadde Bostan, Fener yolu, Moda, Bebek, Ulus, Etiler, Levent, Atakoy, Florya, Basimkoy, Istinye and Tarabya.
Now take a look at a map and you will see that how much of the city I cover which puts me in a better position then you and most others on if you are paying a lot or not. Quite a few of my clients are Turks so dont come to me with the "my turkish friends said blah blah" card.
I am not following you around but just correcting the wrong information you are putting out here.
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Starman, I am admiring the way you are keeping your temper over this conversation. Keep taking whatever it is that is helping you with this - I could probably use some of the same stuff.
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Turkish coffee but in a mug and not a little cup helps keep me calm followed by a drive down the E5. After that everything else just seems irrelevant.
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Sorry sorry my stay in Istanbul was completely a figment of my imagination............ooo it must have all been a dream.
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or you are just living in dreamland with no idea of the big picture.
Put it this way, if someone shared a flat in Tower Hamlets and never really went anywhere else in London to live and had nothing to do with the real estate market then how would they know what the general picture is for what is expensive or not in London?
Do you know what the average allowance for rent is for expats in Istanbul?
Do you know what the average aidat is?
Do you know which is the most popular area for expats? (it is not Moda)
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Jeez give it rest starman .........ok point taken............you know more than I do! LOL
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Who`s been trying to teach Grandma to suck eggs. :P
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Starman, have you stopped taking the large mugs of coffee? I went down/up the E5 a few times. Didn't do anything for my angst.
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You need to hit the E5 during off peak times. You remember the cartoon whacky races? thats how it is.