mısrable gıts

onlyme


Joined: 28/01/2008
Posts: 86

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 14:42

ı have lıved here now for many years and at fırst ı thought ıt was my ımagınatıon, but no ıts true, every year ı notıce more and more brıtısh resıdents becomıng mıserable, grouchy ,moany,and depressıng. ı thınk ıts becomıng an epıdemıc,please somebody fınd a cure before ıt turns us all ınto u.k. cıtızens

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 14:46

i think you must be talking about council estate syndrome.

Chick-a-Dee


Joined: 16/06/2008
Posts: 342

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 14:47

What's council estate syndrome Fire starter?

TracyF


Joined: 17/05/2008
Posts: 70

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 14:47

I think the cure is to stay where you are and not visit the UK otherwise you will be really depressed!

Only 2 more days till I'm in N.C. !!

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 14:54

its where gossip start everyone repeats it and causes panic,a bit like chinese whisper.

Chick-a-Dee


Joined: 16/06/2008
Posts: 342

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 14:54

Tracey f ...



For those of us still in the UK, come visit us that will give residents of TRNC a reality check of what miserable is!



Still, like you I am out to TRNC next week - cannot wait!!!! YIPPEE! No work for a whole two weeks ...yes!

bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 15:19

I don't think that there is by any means a panic situation in the TRNC.Despite many peoples experiences, the picture I get is that most are relatively calm and forward thinking.However they are realistic and by now are fully aware of the pitfalls of buying in the TRNC. Does the buying process make people happy? No,not until it is concluded. Perhaps its then that we can join the happy, clappy gang?

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 15:24

so the foreigners not being allowed to buy turkish title didn't start a panic then?which is untrue. you know when i first heard that, was from a turkish cypriot policeman on april the 1st.

bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 16:26

Depends how you define panic fire starter,

A debate on a forum hardly describes a panic. Panic for me would be protests and petitions. I first heard the rumour from several TC's and people that have been waiting from 2004/2005. The HBPG is also a reliable source of information too.

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 16:55

I think we could all do with counting our blessings for that which we do have, even if they are small things. Wakeing up everyday in the TRNC seeing the sun shine and feeling the warmth on your skin must be just fantastic. This must cure alot of ills both physical and psychological.



I think one of the problems is a feeling of powerless or lack of control. When it comes to TRNC governmental decisions the average Brit has no input in to government decisions (particularly in matters of property) and no clear understanding of the output. Not that Brits should have any say on the input but the output which is often contradictory does impact us.



There is also uncertainty when it comes to the solution issue.



Of course, I am in the UK so I am not well placed to know the mood of Brits on the island

bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 17:01

Well said ILC. Positive but showing an awareness of the problems and how they impact on the purchaser.

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 17:09

well said ILC,



I am of the opinion of when the sun shines, then I feel good.



Will feel even better when our place is finally finished!!



Cheer up.



T.

TracyF


Joined: 17/05/2008
Posts: 70

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 17:16

The only panic for me is if I can't get hold of a nice cold Efes when I arrive on Sunday!!

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 17:37

hi ILC,totally agree with your sentiments,no one lives in utopia and people feel frustrated and inept when they have no control of the problems they are faceing,but we brits do like to moan i must admit.after the war my grand father

said that he hated the germans for what they did to him, when i asked him what they had done,he said he had bought two german cars and they had both

broken down.which goes to show you cant please everbody.

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 17:40

thanks guys for the feedback



hilarious cruggs, love it

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 22:16

My lips are sealed!



wyn

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
25/07/2008 23:15

cruggs,



You are right. If there was an event on moaning at the Olympics the UK would win the gold everytime.



That said, I believe it is an outlet for frustration, annoyance and upset that has no long term basis. Most of us do it at sometime either at home, the bar or here and it offers a relief to the bodies systems.



This is something that people from other countries do not understand!!!!



OK, there are some who moan all the time and complain the minute the sun or moon rises. They are the ones we all despise but they are the ones that are remembered by our hosts in this great little country.



One of the first things I learnt in driving here is the thing of blowing the horn, waving the fist and mouthing a few obsenities - then continuing on. In the UK it ends up with someone killing another in so called Road Rage.



So finding the happy medium of the way of driving and "moaning" is the way to live here.



Right now I want to kill our builder, solicitor and anyone associated, try living on a building site for over 2 years and the original poster may understand some of the frustrations. That said this is far superior to living in UK.

Jo Valentine


Joined: 10/02/2008
Posts: 508

Message Posted:
26/07/2008

Hi Happy Clappies (and those not so happy too).



My late Father was fortunate enough to spend the last 20 or so years of his life in our favourite bit of paradise.

'I'm like and old dog' he used to say, 'I like the sun on my back'

His message to send back to England was always 'tell everybody at home I'm living a hand to mouth existance'.............

'but there's always a glass in the hand !'



Keep smiling!

Jo Valentine

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
26/07/2008 08:12

We love it here, we love the locals and they are for the most part very, very friendly towards us.... learning to speak Turkish we have found a great help and it makes it easier for us to gain their trust and respect... We avoid the moaners like the plague and do uor best to work through all our own problems with a good heart.

Lazy days


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 847

Message Posted:
26/07/2008 10:09

Hi all

This post is in a similar vein to Ishmials so lets all lighten up and help each other, it seems peculiar to me that all we do is groan and moan instead of getting together and helping each other as the foreigners who emigrated to the UK do, they get their heads down pull together and help to get on, but it seems to this student of life that Brits abroad take great delight knocking things and their fellows.

So lets all chill the sun is shining

xx

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
26/07/2008 10:53

hi lazy days, cyprusishome summed it up on post 17 of this thread,and yes its

just a safety valve instilled in our history and culture.in a recent historicle program,archiologists disscovered letters from hadrians wall written by the romans of the time,one was moaning of the lack of beer for his troops, dont know if it was Effes though another about the lack of socks.we brits will allways find some thing to moan about look on the recent posts of poples

speling fur exampel,and we now have Ishmial moaning about us brits!!!!