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You might find my views quite patriotic, but my last words on this debate ;
why should an ordinary Turk want to live in Uk ? while ;
In Uk In Turkey
Cost of life is high. Cost of life is not that high.
You earn more but Average Turk can earn enough
you cant save because of high to make livelihood. If not, then
cost of life. family would support eachother.
Montly rent for a 3 bedroom In Turkey 100 pounds.
house [average] starts from
500 pounds.
Bad weather in general. Nice weather in general comparing UK.
Individual life ,weak family Community life, stronger family ties.
ties.
Rush,rush,rush Not much rush, more laid back life.
Many people in Uk dont In Turkey neighboorhood is very
even know their neighbours. important.
In Uk most of elderly people It is a big shame in
end up in care houses. Turkey. We look after our elderly people
till they die. [although there are few care houses ]
Most of your veggies and We grow ours [most of them]
fruits are important from Spain,
Italy..etc..
In Uk, you fear to talk to In Turkey you feel more confortable
stranger on the street. about talking to strangers.
Your use tea bags. We use tea leaves..
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Dont get me wrong. Every culture has good and bad sides. I am just stating the fact that a Turk has not much reason to live in UK.
Lets stop this here.. Thanks.
Awwww Tunci you´ve gone to a lot of trouble copying and pasting this, so will take the trouble to reply 
1. You are right, the cost of living here is very high and getting higher!
2. I don´t feel we earn more and, only speaking personally, you are right I never save any money!
3. Property is very expensive. I bought my house, but I do know that its very expensive to rent.
4. Weak family ties? I suppose if you generalise there are SOME people this would apply to, but I have a very close family and most of my friends do to, so it´s hard for me to comment on that one.
5. Haha well it feels like bad weather sometimes and summer this year was in April and May, which felt very strange, but generally I love the English weather.
6. Rush, Rush, Rush? Only in the cities I guess. There IS more to England that London you know I find your cities VERY busy and noisy, but that´s just a cultural thing.
7. Again, I think that is because you are a noisier country. We don´t seem to talk as much and you are probably right about the neighbour thing. We just politely say "hello" to them usually
8. Yes they do - it is something that I also ALWAYS compare badly to other countries, especially Meditterrean countries. It´s very sad that our old people end up in care homes.
9. We grow LOTS of vegetables!!! For example Agriculture is the biggest industry where I live. However, we have a different diet to you - we like to eat all kinds of food from all different countries, so we have to import a LOT of vegetables in the winter because people insist on continuing to eat summer vegetables and want them fresh all year round.
10. That´s rubbish - I have never been scared to talk to a stranger on the street!  We are quite friendly you know!
11. Probably true - but we drink a HUGE range of different teas. We like tea from all over the world and many herb teas. We don´t just drink one type of tea or coffee like you
OK REALLY bored now....
Can we end this?
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