How many years have you been here

jay76


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 532

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:01

So how many years have you been here (trnc) holidaying or lived, and has the news of the orams case or the latest news on the talks ever made you think wow this is getting a little worring its never got to this stage before.



I have had a holiday home in the trnc for nearly two years now and to me honest i do not regret buying one little bit if anything im always itching to get back out.



I wonder which cyp44 member/s has been here the longest.

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:12

We have been coming to NC for 8yrs our Villa was completed 6yrs ago , no worries and certainly do not regret buying there .

Simbas

authentichoccie


Joined: 09/01/2008
Posts: 481

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:13

6 Years and 4 months

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:15

One year and two months and not worried by the Orams case. I think I might put in a fictitious claim for Larnaca airport.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:47

Since June 2003, = 6 years 8 months

Geoff

Famagusta City

scruff


Joined: 15/07/2008
Posts: 1070

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:50

March 2002.

scruff


Joined: 15/07/2008
Posts: 1070

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:51

Should have qualified that last message. Lived here full time since March 2002. Started visiting in 1994 or 5?

parkview



Joined: 12/03/2009
Posts: 1123

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:51

15 years and love it!

JonnyG


Joined: 12/12/2008
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:54

Coming for 3 years this month and we plan to move out and live full time in the next few years - can't come soon enough.



JonnyG

Aysesdaddy



Joined: 21/03/2009
Posts: 392

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:56

I have been visiting TRNC nearly every year since about 1982. I still love the place. I have introduced lots of people to the Island, some love it and keep visiting, others have not been back. I do not think re-unification will ever happen, as there are too many open wounds. Perhaps in the future when the younger generation forget the past, things might change. It will not stop me coming to TRNC but over commercialization would.

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 12:59

First came here on Boxing Day 1963 at Queen Elizabeth's expence and stayed until the UN came in.

Came back in 1990 and holidayed every year ( sometimes twice a year ) until my wife and I bought our house

over 7 years ago.

Could not imagine ever going back to UK.



No regrets

Every day is Sunday

crofter


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 1035

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 13:11

7 years 4 months and not one regret about leaving UK or coming to the TRNC.

kathy88


Joined: 01/12/2009
Posts: 39

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 13:19

23 years !! get me out of here lolll

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 15:47

I first came to live on the island for 4 years in 1970, then returned permanently in 1983. Have lived here longer than anywhere else, it is our home, and would not dream of moving anywhere else. For the first 30 years of marriage we were constantly on the move, 35 times in all. Enough is enough!

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 16:37

moved here lock stock and three smoking barrells 3 years in July with no regrets - have never said never to going back to UK but hope it will never happen. All our visitors love it too and return year on year

Agree with Carndi msg 11 every day is Sunday

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 16:51

Came December 2006 having sold up over there!! Willhave to be dragged back!!

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 18:09

First visit Easter 1981. Been coming ever since.

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 19:01

Visiting for fifteen years, here permanently almost a year, love it.

elkiton



Joined: 15/03/2009
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 19:21

Tour of duty in '69, moved out permanently in 2007. No, no fear re the Orams case as we made the full commitment and sold up in the UK so this is our home not a holiday investment, hence my intolerance of the "snipers". Can understand the fears people have though with one foot in each camp. No regrets, only that it took me so long to find really good live musicians lol

TonyE

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 19:32

Hey guys. I think the Powers that Be should see these postings which are an obvious contradiction to all the scaremongering of Panic among Ex Pats.

May I quote you all? I am going to write a piece for londra Gazette and I think London should see how happy many ex pats are and fully in support of the TRNC?

So, my question is - does anyone mind being quoted, or wish to be anonymous?

As for me, just by way of interest. First visited 1989; bought holiday apartment in 2002, came permanently in 2003, and although I wonder sometimes what the heck I am doing, don'/t have any plans to leave (in spite of THAT ITV programme last year 'No Place like Home' , I have to admit thisIS home for now.

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 19:33

Sorry, my flozen flingers mistyped - cos we bought our holiday apartment in 2001 and coming for three months every year escaping the Australian winter.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 19:39

I first came here in 1956 with my father who was based here at that time. Came back 2004, would i do it again. I would if we had the money we gave to the rouge builder now in a uk remand centre, and never started a buisness. Where do you go from here. certainly no where in the eurozone.

teatime


Joined: 20/10/2008
Posts: 852

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 21:04

First started visiting in 1991, been coming regularly ever since, moving in later this year and it can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned.

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 21:32

7 on and off

cyprus1


Joined: 19/02/2007
Posts: 154

Message Posted:
03/02/2010 23:13

17 years full time, but it looks as if it is coming to an end now due to medical problems. We will wait and see what doctors say here in UK!!!!!.

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
04/02/2010 00:52

So sorry to hear that Cyprus1. Reminds me of the leading question I asked my husband 'Where do you want to die?' If he wants to be cremated, then we would have to return to U.K, but if he is happy to be buried in 'some part of a foreign field' , then it could be here. I guess it depends on what treatment and help one needs and if one can afford it. Would hate to think that anyone had to leave for negative reasons. Seems unfair. So, I DO wish you well Cyprus1. Hope that whatever advice you get is something with which you can liv e.

Stephan


Joined: 22/05/2009
Posts: 211

Message Posted:
08/02/2010 09:23

28 YEARS...SINCE MARCH 1981...THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!

Aysesdaddy



Joined: 21/03/2009
Posts: 392

Message Posted:
08/02/2010 10:45

Yes they were

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
08/02/2010 10:54

8 years and have no regrets about anything - love the TRNC (warts and all)!!