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The cheapest and best place to live 1 year
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 10:50 am |
Hi!
I am 25 years old and I am thinking to going to live in Turkey for half or 1 year.
My plan is to rent a room in a sharing apartment. I like seaside places and I need internet access for my work. Which places do you think have the lower living costs and are nice to live?
I am thinking about the following places, I have heard that Urla is the best and cheapest choice. Which one do you think is the cheapest one? dalyan fethiye gokova turunc urla foca ayvalik bozcaada
Any other suggestion would be also great.
Thanks a lot! Ernest
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 02:56 pm |
Hi!
I am 25 years old and I am thinking to going to live in Turkey for half or 1 year.
My plan is to rent a room in a sharing apartment. I like seaside places and I need internet access for my work. Which places do you think have the lower living costs and are nice to live?
I am thinking about the following places, I have heard that Urla is the best and cheapest choice. Which one do you think is the cheapest one? dalyan fethiye gokova turunc urla foca ayvalik bozcaada
Any other suggestion would be also great.
Thanks a lot! Ernest
Fethiye would be my choice from this list. It´s a big year round town with a large English speaking community and near loads of other places to visit. Ayvalik is nice but would be too far north for me. All the others are a bit seasonal.
Just one opinion.
Edited (8/30/2010) by sonunda
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 03:51 pm |
tnx for your response. Is your choice also from the costs perpective? Because this is my primary factor.
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 03:56 pm |
tnx for your response. Is your choice also from the costs perpective? Because this is my primary factor.
I think Fethiye is as cheap as anywhere else especially compared to some of the other resort type places you mentioned and living costs are reasonable if you eat and shop where the locals do. There are Turkish users on this site who are more qualified to advise you in this regard. All I can say is, I´ve been to all the places you listed(except Urla-where´s that? ) and Fethiye would be my choice.
(Just found Urla on the map-been past it on the way to Çeşme)
Edited (8/30/2010) by sonunda
Edited (8/30/2010) by sonunda
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 04:53 pm |
Hi!
I am 25 years old and I am thinking to going to live in Turkey for half or 1 year.
My plan is to rent a room in a sharing apartment. I like seaside places and I need internet access for my work. Which places do you think have the lower living costs and are nice to live?
I am thinking about the following places, I have heard that Urla is the best and cheapest choice. Which one do you think is the cheapest one? dalyan fethiye gokova turunc urla foca ayvalik bozcaada
Any other suggestion would be also great.
Thanks a lot! Ernest
Fethiye is best one among them, Urla is not that beautiful, as Fethiye exists in the list. Ayvalık and Bozcaada remain in northern Turkey and season is not that long around there and they are commonly preferred by people who live in and around Istanbul, as summerhouse. I don´t know about Foça and Dalyan but as Gökova is a bay, sea is clean and season is long like in all southern resorts. If I would have had to make a choise in the list, I would definitely choose Fethiye.
btw: Urla is a small seaside town of İzmir.
thanks.
Edited (8/30/2010) by turkishcobra
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 05:03 pm |
great, I will check all those places again. Do you think it is any huge difference in prices between Altinkum and Fethiye? From what I saw by photos, Fethiye is really great. On other site many people said Altinkum would be the cheapest place to live.
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 05:04 pm |
nifrtity liked this message -did you not like my message?
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 05:05 pm |
great, I will check all those places again. Do you think it is any huge difference in prices between Altinkum and Fethiye? From what I saw by photos, Fethiye is really great. On other site many people said Altinkum would be the cheapest place to live.
I don´t like Altinkum. Marmaris is cheap.
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 05:08 pm |
nifrtity liked this message -did you not like my message?
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absolutely she didn´t !
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 05:10 pm |
absolutely she didn´t !
But it was just as good as yours!
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 05:45 pm |
I visited Dalyan at the end of the tourist season last year, and I was surprised about how dead it was. I wouldn´t want to live there all year round. I would urge to not make money your primary factor, but just overall living comfort your primary factor. Ofcourse money is important, but if a place is boring but cheap, you´ll still have a horrible time living there. Perhaps you could go look for forums that are specialized in the seperate towns you are thinking about. Most towns have a forum for expats. There you can see what the real differences are for foreign people who are living there, instead of differences with regard to being there in holiday.
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 06:42 pm |
The fact is that, these kind of touristic destinations lose their spirit when season gets ended. Those touristic destinations are generally located nearby small towns and so when seaons is opened tourists start to come there, it seems those places are very active. But when season is closed and tourists leave the destinations, in fall and winter, these places fall into a deep silence, only native people remain around there.
So, at first glance, these small touristic destinations look like a good alternative to live and spend years in summers but when nature fell asleep, you see that the fact is actually not that one.
thanks.
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30 Aug 2010 Mon 10:16 pm |
I quite like the falling asleep bit after all the tourists have gone
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