I'm afra8id that Antalya is not a good example of real Turkiye. Have u ever been to eastern Anatolia? I love everything in Turkiye, but the truth is that life there is hard. You see only sea sun and friendly people (what is absolutely true) but u don't see their everyday problems, for example with money, u don't know how hard they work, very often 12 hours a day... U probably lived in hotel so u have no idea how expencive is water in Turkiye, because they have general lack of water, it's very big problem in Istanbul... and so on so on...
On the other hans, Turks are like Poles they don't appreciate what they have in their own country.

i agree with your last sentence

Many Turks want to go abroad, but they don't know their own country. You are very lucky, u have everything there: seas,beaches, mountains, lakes, rivers and much more, ex. Pamukkale - u can't find anything similar all over the world...

Yes I agree with u.. I think everything can be found in Turkey!

Pamukkale is gorgeous. There is no doubt that it is hard to find place as beautiful as Turkey. But I can understand how people that have a hard time taking care of much more basic things than traveling and enjoying seeing beautiful things would want to live somewhere where life is easier. Though one thing I believe, and I may be wrong, a smart educated person can be successful anywhere he or she goes. It just sometimes takes more affort in one place than in some other place.

U r right. But on the other hand, when my friends from Malatya write to me, that there is nothing interesting there, becaause there are no disco and clubs such in Poland...Then I think "hey, it's something wrong with you!". And it's not about money, because I don't believe that someone who goes from Turkey to USA has no money, 'cause it's quite expencive journey, don't u think? But they live somewhere else, because they really don't appreciate what they have...

actually out living standart isnt as higher as in europe..
that is why we want to go abroad..
we dont earn much monet any if u r working in goverment your standart would be the lower..
i know from my relatives
living somewhere could be as hard as in turkey..
europian countries has the poor but we believe that they could be poor as much as we are
:d
that is why we went to go abroad..

I understand that way of thinking. Most of Polish think the same (generally most of us want to go to USA or England) for the same reason. I know many Turks living in Poland and Germany, they are satisfied, but they also admit that their image of living abroad was totally different and they were very dissapointed. They still admit it's not easy and sometimes they regret living Turkey...although they are happy.

i know but
"gülü seven dikenine katlanır"

Oh it's my favourite proverb!
I like also: Kuruzsuz dost kara günde belli olur.

Seticio, I think you meant "İyi dost kara günde belli olur". This means "You will see who is a good friend at bad times".

You might have confused it with "Kusursuz dost arayan dostsuz kalır". And this means "One who seeks a perfect friend will end up having no friends".

I am sure you know what these mean, but I wanted to make it more understandable for the people who don't know Turkish that well