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Turkey Related Subjects => Cost of Living in Turkey => Topic started by: crossie on September 28, 2005, 22:47:32 PM

Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on September 28, 2005, 22:47:32 PM: Spoken to loads of brits living in Fethiye area, and they all say the same, £100 a week, does it easy, thats everything, unless your a P/Head, that is.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: puma on September 29, 2005, 15:04:20 PM: what does that cover etc
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Post by: Peterhousby on September 29, 2005, 17:18:50 PM: Don't forget to plan for quite high inflation in the future!!£100 a week now could be £150.00 a week in 3 or 4 yeras time!
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Post by: crossie on September 29, 2005, 23:45:55 PM: I take note of the remarks about inflation, allways something to keep an eye on,I am reliably informed that circa £100 a week, covers cost of utility bills council tax gas water elec ect, food,petrol ect.
I read only yesterday a letter from the brother of a chap I work with, who moved to Turkey 18 mounths ago,Turinc, is it? Agian side.
and I quote from it " we pay all our household expences, we both smoke and drink, and we do it easy on a hundred pounds a week".
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Post by: teresa321 on September 30, 2005, 05:33:28 AM: It does match the amount quoted in the past a couple of times - £400 a month.

Teresa
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Post by: canalman on September 30, 2005, 11:10:33 AM: Having just spent five weeks in our house in Calis I found that without having meals out we could live very well on a low budget; from what you have suggested in this thread I shall try to do my sums and work out how much it cost ( that is apart from the air con and security bars that we bought last visit!)
Pete and Sue
PS If I took out my Efes and Raki consumtion (Sue does not drink) we could live very well in Turkey
Title: £100 a week
Post by: Talk Turkey on September 30, 2005, 21:45:19 PM: Canalman, I'd be very interested in the results of your cost of living calculations. All things being equal and God willing by this time next year my wife and I will be spending a lot more time at our place in Ovacik so the more we know about the actual cost of living there would be appreciated. TT 8)
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 01, 2005, 14:21:34 PM: Hi TT, we have looked at some properties in Ovacik, and I like the area allthough wifey does,nt,do you know if it gets a bit cold up there in the winter mounths.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 01, 2005, 14:27:51 PM: Drifted a bit off the thread there,I have done some more checks with a Turkish guy I know here in UK.He thinks that spending a £100 a week very extravagent!
I am not including in this, any work, or decorating costs, this is just a week to week living cost.
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Post by: doll on October 01, 2005, 14:32:13 PM: it does get cold at ovacik in the winter and not many people stay all year there
we try to live on £50 a week sometimes more
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 01, 2005, 14:34:31 PM: I notice a distinctive quietness on this subject, from many, I wonder if its the (O!we have a couple of properties in Turkey, and will be moving there soon)crowd, when down the pub.
dont want there mates saying " So thats why they went to Turkey"!
Title: £100 a week
Post by: janmack on October 01, 2005, 23:36:52 PM: Do not quite get your logic Crossie. You can easily live out here, at present, on £100 or whatever your budget is. I suspect the "quietness" is because this subject has been covered so often.
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Post by: teresa321 on October 02, 2005, 07:29:22 AM: It has been covered quite a lot Crossie to be fair and the same £100 does always crop up. For me it is the running costs of a house that are the winner. Anyone can spend as much as thet like on food, wine, women an song. In England I spend a bloody fortune on heating, rates, electric, council tax and everything else - that is the winner for me in Turkey.

The sun, the people, the sea, the smells and the rest all come FREE.

Teresa
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Post by: crossie on October 02, 2005, 13:47:37 PM: Looking forward to it
Title: £100 a week
Post by: lindacarl on October 02, 2005, 19:00:08 PM: quote:
Originally posted by doll

it does get cold at ovacik in the winter and not many people stay all year there
we try to live on £50 a week sometimes more

Doll
Is that for 2 of you? Our bills alone here come to more than that. We're looking forward to getting out there full-time eventually. As we rarely drink I suspect our outgoings might be in that region too.

When you see the prices of fruit & veg in the markets you realise that we're going to eat far more healthier than here at much less cost. I must admit that I use lots of frozen veg. at the moment for convenience (lazyness too!) & better quality. I haven't seen frozen veg. there so guess it's back to basics & freeze your own when it's in season.

We've already got our 3 wheeler bikes & as we both want to lose weight we won't buy a car initially, we'll see if we can make do with them & the dolmus. Do you run a car Doll?

We're both looking forward to a less stressful way of life. I agree with Teresa - the people, the sun, the sea, the smells - what a terrific bonus!

Linda & Carl
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Post by: crossie on October 02, 2005, 19:00:33 PM: Sorry to be so boring, only just rejoined, you see!
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Post by: teresa321 on October 02, 2005, 19:46:42 PM: You are echoing all my thoughts Linda & Carl. I don't know how long we will last before deciding we need a car but I hate driving and I hope we never want one.

Teresa
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Post by: crossie on October 02, 2005, 22:46:00 PM: Mustafa car, ASAP, when we get there, I believe its stricktley a cash transaction.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 07, 2005, 14:30:12 PM: Yes, well you would hate driving Teresa, thats because your a woman, you see God never designed women to drive cars,only to do washing ironing, shopping, that sort of thing.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: lmaddy on October 07, 2005, 15:18:58 PM: there's a lot to be said for the female praying mantis...........
Title: £100 a week
Post by: lindacarl on October 07, 2005, 18:19:13 PM: The black widow spider also comes to mind.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: doll on October 08, 2005, 09:06:21 AM: linda carl
we do run a car
petrol is dearest in the world here in turkey,dont no why
its the cost of house in uk what kills us
Title: £100 a week
Post by: lindacarl on October 08, 2005, 15:19:19 PM: Doll
I think we'll all agree with you about house costs here.

Living in Wales we've just had our property rebanded into a higher band which has added another few hundred onto our outgoings. (In England there was such an outcry that they abandoned the rebanding there - I didn't vote for devolution - just another level of expensive beauracracy).

Gas & Electricity bills have already soared around 25 per cent over the last year and they are warning that they have yet further to go soon. Add water & house insurance & living in Turkey looks more & more appealing just from a financial viewpoint.

Add to that the fact that you can afford to eat very healthily, that it is in fact cheaper to eat healthily than to eat junk food. Then there is a tremendous bus service (bit different to the 2 buses a day we get here) & it's pretty flat so at least we stand a chance of getting fit on our bikes instead of having heart attacks biking up mountains.

Then there is the climate. Hopefully once we've lost all the weight biking, walking, swimming & eating healthily we'll be able to tolerate the heat of the summer months more & it makes a change having decent weather during the winter (apart from the rain & very cold nights).

Turkey reminds me of when I was young. When people always seemed to have time to stop & talk. When children were taught to respect their elders & wouldn't dare swear mildly at them, let alone come out with mouthfuls of expletives, for no reason, as they do now.

I know it's not perfect but it's our chance to 'live the dream' that many of us couldn't afford elsewhere. Saying that there are few places in the world that we have felt at home & wanted to live. Wales is really beautiful but Turkey has captured our hearts.

Linda
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Post by: mary anne on October 08, 2005, 17:10:18 PM: Linda - My thoughts entirely. What appeals to me is what we have lost in society in Britain . On the dolmus do you ever see a woman or an elderly person standing- NO. In fact I keep looking to see if any old people get on the bus in case I am sitting and thought to be disrespectful so it is catching. The only thing is the young turks get up for us on the bus (50 year olds ) which makes us feel old!!
Anyway I love it, love it, love it. And I am going back out for a week on Monday despite only being back two weeks, so what I will be skint for the next month...we count ourselves very lucky to be able to make such choices. Mary
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 08, 2005, 17:44:48 PM: I agree Mary anne thats what one still see,s in Turkey, Standards!
sadly lacking in the UK.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 08, 2005, 17:49:35 PM: Doll, Ive spoken to some on the price of petrol in Turkey, and apparently the thing to do is get your vehicle adapted to use gas, as well as petrol, Dual/Fuel, the conversion cost I am told is about £200, but the equivelant price of gas is only 45p a litre.
The cars dont run as well on a incline, as on petrol but you can just switch over.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: doll on October 09, 2005, 07:46:19 AM: thanks crossie,but the tank takes up most of the boot space
and its a new car,but it is cheaper
lindacarl we loved calis/fethiye as you say uk is not home to us,the costs are spiralling to run your home
and we miss family the most,but would like to end our days here.
quality of life v rat run, good luck
Title: £100 a week
Post by: K471DTE on October 09, 2005, 21:43:35 PM: After reading all your comments, I miss Fethiye even more ( as I am Turkish ) and yes reminds me my days in Turkey. Based on my experience may I suggest few ideas ?

If we all do shopping at local Markets, we can all get good service and good pricess and protect small local buisness? i THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. I try to do it at all times? (even in Belgium). I send my childreen to local shops with confident as they allways give special attention.

Yes, the price of the fuel in Turkey as whole is THE MOST EXPENSIVE on our planet. Then, I try not to drive but use also my 'velo' ( in frech byciclye ).

But I do also need a car to see all beatiuful places. There are very nice places at behind the uzumlu towards Denizli... small villages. Incredabely sweet to spend time and even day there.

But we need to go to Migros as well and it is not eay to go without a car. Maybe could be a good idea to share the shopping dys in Migros or Market days... just an idea... Why should we make fuel companies richer?

I found heatlh service very efficiant as well. I had few situatons due to my childreen, all solved with A big smile...

We found local market ( Pazar ) prices also very reasonable. I hope it will stay like it is.

Just a question, do you receive your Sun news papers on time ? This should give you a bit clue about my job )))))))

Kind Regards
Dogan
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Post by: puma on October 09, 2005, 21:46:49 PM: english papers are a day behind
Title: £100 a week
Post by: lindacarl on October 09, 2005, 23:42:54 PM: Dogan
I agree with everything you say. I'd be willing to have a car that is fully shared between a few people to take things further BUT it's the logistics of it all that might be a nightmare.
What happens if one person puts 90% of miles on, if someone else wants to go away for 2 weeks in it.
The ideal solution is for there to be those little electric cars I think they have introduced in Paris, where you pick them up wherever & drop them off once you've finished with them. Then again that might be too much like Utopia for many. LOL
Linda
Title: £100 a week
Post by: lynne on October 10, 2005, 07:21:02 AM: The Sun newspaper is always same day - everything else a day behind...
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Post by: K471DTE on October 10, 2005, 13:00:36 PM: Lynne,

You are correct. The Sun is arriving in Fethiye sam day (most of the time)
Just few communication is below.

Dogan ,

when they print in the UK they send it via BA or TK and the forwarder is Higgs UK .
The can't connect on our STN LGG flight as they print quite late and can't match the cut off at the airport .

Kind regards,
Fabrice Keignaert
Business Development Manager
Air Cargo Sales - Benelux & France
TNT Express Worldwide Networks
Phone: + 32 2 754 49 51
Fax: +32 2 754 43 74
Mobile: + 32 475 700 897
e-mail: fabrice.keignaert@tnt.com

Dogan Bayrak/IE/TNT/TPG
10/10/05 11:26 AM
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If it prints in UK who is snedin to TR ? Not TNT ? I have never seen it ?

K Rgds
Dogan Bayrak
Operations Manager
TNT LGG Air Hub
Belgium
Tel: 00 32 04 239 5811

Fabrice Keignaert/IE/TNT/TPG
10/10/2005 11:21 AM
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Dogan ,

during this season the SUN is printing in IST . Some time they print in the UK and fly into IST .
the local distributor Dunya Digitim is responsible for the ontforwarding to end destination inside Turkey .

Kind regards,
Fabrice Keignaert
Business Development Manager
Air Cargo Sales - Benelux & France
TNT Express Worldwide Networks
Phone: + 32 2 754 49 51
Fax: +32 2 754 43 74
Mobile: + 32 475 700 897
e-mail: fabrice.keignaert@tnt.com

Dogan Bayrak/IE/TNT/TPG
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Fabrice,

Can you advice who is sending Sun Newspapers to Turkey, specially Fethiye ? Pls go to this web side and have alook at it ??

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K Rgds
Dogan Bayrak
Operations Manager
TNT LGG Air Hub
Belgium
Tel: 00 32 04 239 5811
Title: £100 a week
Post by: crossie on October 10, 2005, 13:26:59 PM: Why would anyone wish to read The Sun, apart from having yesterdays news, it depicts women as objcts of sexual desire. No self respecting person would buy the Sun.
Title: £100 a week
Post by: puma on October 10, 2005, 14:46:36 PM: never ever bought the sun since its publication of the hillsborough disaster when it wrote a load of s***te
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Post by: valentine on October 10, 2005, 18:08:20 PM: I have to agree with both the above posts, its not a newspaper because it doesn't have any news!
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Post by: susuz.1 on October 10, 2005, 18:45:38 PM: I once heard a rumour that the Sun is sent out a day early as Sun readers require extra time to digest the pictures (oops I mean text)?

Could this be true?
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Post by: xanadu on October 10, 2005, 20:36:07 PM: Ok chaps........back on track, this thread was about the cost of living which has been done to death so I will lock this now.