Biggest problem for the foreigner people living in TRNC

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 17:20

Whats your comment about biggest problem?

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 18:30

biggest problem is learning the language!! its ok if you live in NC full time, but those of us that live there for a few months of the year have to rely on phrase books and then we don't pronounce it right ...

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 18:50

I am not foreign to me, but everyone else is!

pollymarples


Joined: 08/08/2010
Posts: 1778

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 19:28

I can't dance.

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 19:42

thats nice pollymarples

havalı


Joined: 28/02/2011
Posts: 55

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 21:06

no one ıs foreıgner here. not to me anyway.

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 21:32

Apart from learning Turkish - which I find hard to remember but well worth the effort - it seems to me that the biggest problem most people face is the fact they live here - not anywhere else in the world but HERE. Once that step has been taken then its back to the Turkish learning thing again......

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 21:55

stuck up brits ?

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 22:01

Frustration at chaotic, overstaffed and inefficient bureaucracy where common sense, leadership and a sense of personal responsibility is hard to find.

On the plus side, under this system you can walk right into their offices, squeeze past their workstations and get direct access with the mudur or direktor who may be able to sort you out there and then.

IbrahimAbi


Joined: 24/10/2010
Posts: 245

Message Posted:
14/03/2011 22:01

Little Britain in the sun

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 08:59

Foreigner; people living in TRNC who wasnt born in Cyprus.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 10:22

No 11: You mean like Cypriots born in UK?

Geoff

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 12:09

I mean the people who wasnt born in Cyprus.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 12:48

Which includes Cypriots born in UK, but it don't work that way, they do better here than we (english) do.

e.g. prices paid for things.

Geoff

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 13:09

yes absolutely.

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 13:31

Ha! message 14 ''eg prices paid for things''

so i suppose places like Lemar or Tempo have 2 tills,1 for the brits,1 for the locals.you fail to mention it goes on all the time in the UK,If a builder,plumber ect see's you have money,he'll bump up his prices or they will make out you need work done which you dont, you dont have to be a Foreigner,they do it to their own,especially the elderly.another example,when someone comes to fix your tv or washing machine,it could be a minor thing but they will make out its something really expensive,its happening all the time,Funny how people who have moved here forget things though,isnt it.

numpty


Joined: 20/05/2009
Posts: 554

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 13:37

I love it here, you have problems where ever you live in the world,

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 13:42

im loving it too numpty and i honestly feel that the uk has a hell of a lot more problems than northern cyprus does, it will get better here,but sadly the uk is kaput,

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 13:43

If you have any problem, you need to find somebody who knows somebody in that office, then you will not even have to wait in the que.

Unfortunately that 's how things have been and will be for the rest of time. Yavash Yavash.

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 14:08

I am thinking like vonny.This kind of problems are not only for the foreigners.Its how it works here.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 20:09

I think the language problem is the biggest issue - if you want to integrate with the locals that is.

Vidal


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 867

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 20:32

Hey No 1..imagine a language chip that you could have implanted, that would enable you to speak the lingo. How fantastic would that be!

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 20:46

Aye it wid be braw ken, noo imagine abody kent wit we wir on aboot..na borra big yin...........

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 20:55

am takin the dug oot fur a walk ,di yi fancy a fish supper oan ma wa hame hen ?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
15/03/2011 23:59

Blimey,I can't even decipher the last two posts. )

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
16/03/2011

Vidal. That's a good idea. How can we get it sorted? 50/50 ) )