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Offline mercury

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« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2012, 13:20:36 PM »
Well put Linda.



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« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2012, 15:30:25 PM »
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Originally posted by kayakebab

Also bear in mind that when family and friends come over you will want to go and show off your lovely new country and will find that you tend to live like a tourist while theyre here.
You also need to factor in travel back to the UK, for visits, or in case of any emergencies.



The first year we lived in Turkey friends visited all the time, someone mentioned on the forum that when you are a tourist £1000 pound spending money is the norm; well that first year with friends and family arriving fast and furious, we did the tourist bits spending approx £8000.  including an emergency trip back to the UK.
  Food for thought?  

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« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2012, 19:34:16 PM »
but on the flip side, if you stay in the UK how far will your £500 go each month?

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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2012, 08:09:48 AM »
500 pounds a month?I dont think so.I am single and my monthly bills,i.e. electric,gas,phone,internet,water and dijiturk average 300tl add to that  the possibility of SGK payment(200tl per person)food,travel,rent or bills attached to ownership,pet food if you have animals and day to day living expenses.You will probably want to socialise and when friends come over to visit,entertain them.Add to that fares back to the UK whether revisiting or on an emergency basis and any medical expenses whilst living here.
I dont intend to discourage you as the advantages of living here greatly outweigh the disadvantages,certainly for me,but you need to bear in mind all these factors before you decide to move over here permanently.

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« Reply #24 on: January 29, 2012, 10:41:47 AM »
5 years ago on our very first visit to turkey to look at our apartment being built we met a man on the plane who lived in turkey, near Dalaman. He had 2 apartments, lived in one and rented the other and he rekoned He and his wife kived off £200 a month all in. A lot of his income was from renting the other apartment out in the summer and he also had the backup of a lump sum in the bank.
At first I was taken in by the romance of it all but after a chatting a while I got the impression he was living on the breadline, scrounging wood etc and only travelled home to UK when there was a very cheap offer on. By the end of the flight I almost felt sorry for him but he was happy, he didn't have to work for a living and he was in a beatiful country. His age 42. 5 years later now I'm 40 I'm thinking if I could retire at 42 I would also be lucky too.

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« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2013, 13:56:54 PM »
I don't think £500 is enough!  Myself and my o/h would like to move to Turkey (we have our own apartment) possibly next year or the year after. 

My personal feelings are that we would need an income of approximately £1000 pm to live comfortably.  We like to go out and socialise etc (not every night), I could be wrong but if we were to live a normal life there, I think that would suffice.

We would rent out our home in the UK which would provide us with the majority of our monthly income to live out in Turkey!

Please feel free to correct me if you think i'm wrong.


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« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2013, 14:14:24 PM »
Wow a topic from a year ago bursts back into life  :)

I think if you eat meat and like a drink and a social life it could be getting very expensive as places to retire to go. When we moved there in 2004 a whole cooked chicken from the roadside (complete with free flat bread) was a quid (2.5 TL), 20 fags were a quid and a pint was a quid too. I wonder how much those three cost in total today?

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« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2013, 14:31:32 PM »
I think we could survive on say £1k a month may be out 2/3 nights a week at the most, we don't have any mortgage etc so it would be the utility bills which in comparison to the UK are cheap (I feel).

Hopefully it will come off, at least we will be able to say we have tried it if it didn't work out!    ;)

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« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2013, 16:48:31 PM »
Cooked chicken now 10tl 20 fags 5tl pint avg 6 tl .

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« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2013, 16:55:48 PM »
You could possibly have 1100TL from the interest on your £70,000 at 7%, add your pension, £500=1350 would give you 2,540TL per month, you would probably be able to live OK'ish on this but this doesnt leave you any contingency plan for emergencies, interest rates going down, exchange rate falling.




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