My name is Debbie and I am thinking of moving to Chalis or that area with my family. My husband is Turkish and we have 2 children, a girl of 2 years and a boy of 9 months. My husband and I lived in Turkey before we had our little girl for a year however I could not handle living in Alanya as I was, quite literally, bored to tears. So we have been in England for about 3 years now and, well, we are considering moving back. Our reasons are that we work like absolute dogs and have no quality of life. We run our own Cafe together and at nighttime we do delivery and takeaway food, so you can see not much free time. I can see that a move back to Turkey would give us a lot more for our money and therefore a better quality of life, however because of my past experience I am quite worried. Things are obviously very different with children which, naturally take up most of my day and stop me getting bored and I have a friend who lives in Chalis and so therefore some of my fears are gone. Anyway what I want to know is
1. What are schools like?
2. What things are there to do for grown ups?
3. Anyone that replies I would like to know what they miss from England
4. Are there childrens groups like there are in England eg swimming clubs, soft play areas, dance classes, gymnastics, Judo, kick boxing that sort of thing?
5. Is there a cinema?
6. Anyone on the forum run their own business?
7. Peoples opinion of areas around chalis which might be a bit more lively?
Grateful to hear from anyone. Thanks Debbie