Yes I thought it would be interesting looking at how it built up from 11 years ago when you and the gang started it off Keith
I don't request you investigate this, Scunner, as I suspect it would be impossible but it is something that mildly interests me. It concerns "you and the gang" who were early movers to Calis/Fethiye. I recall, after a few years of CBF, a longtime, well-informed and hardheaded CBF member, Starman, saying that something like two-thirds of Brits who came to Turkey went home again. This suggestion was greeted with howls of derision and shouts of "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" (the first refuge of those who want to avoid uncomfortable facts). At the time I thought the naysayers had probably not considered that a great many Brits had probably come to the three big cities (Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir) on a tour of duty for their companies and were always going to elsewhere after a few years. Thus the stats told us little about how many of those intending to be "permanent movers" had left Turkey after a while. I suspect quite a few of the original gang who came to Calis have since returned to the UK, most notably Scunner and Dave/Crabbit - and Starman himself has gone - but I don't think that there can be stats on this. Perhaps it is a topic for anecdotal contributions - and probably in another thread.
