She bought an apartment in Istanbul for around $100,000 and decided to move there.
OK.
I’d been dreaming about moving to the Mediterranean for years.
Except, umm, Istanbul’s not on the Med.
But then Americans, geography, you know…..
She bought an apartment in Istanbul for around $100,000 and decided to move there.
OK.
I’d been dreaming about moving to the Mediterranean for years.
Except, umm, Istanbul’s not on the Med.
But then Americans, geography, you know…..
Mediterranean-esque?
Istanbul seems like a lovely place, the locals enjoy smoking and are kind to cats, which is always a good sign.
Idk if moving to Turkey as a young foreign non-Muslim woman is the best idea tho. Istanbul seems fairly European in outlook, but I assume the surrounding countryside isn’t.
The late Prof Norman Stone loved Turkey: he couls smoke and drink as much as he liked and the students were intelligent, polite and washed.
Not Constantinople?
Not yet.
“Idk if moving to Turkey as a young foreign non-Muslim woman is the best idea tho.”
Istanbul is as metropolitan as you can get. Western Turkey in general is pretty secular and… touristy anyway.
And given that she plays the Nouveau-Riche Bohemien, if the place becomes unpleasant enough she can just up and go somewhere else. It’s not as if she’s tied down there.
And if she decides to change sex there are lots of cosmetic surgeons on the doorstep.
There’s a story every Joe Six Pack can relate to.
Steve,
“Idk if moving to Turkey as a young foreign non-Muslim woman is the best idea tho. Istanbul seems fairly European in outlook, but I assume the surrounding countryside isn’t.”
Turkey just feels too unstable to go making property investments.
But I don’t know, I don’t really care about “culture”. All it seems to really mean is old buildings. You can buy cannoli and sushi in Swindon and Waitrose probably sell everything to make Turkish food. You can stream Tarkovsky movies in Milton Keynes. More generally, when people talk about moving somewhere for the “culture” it is just showing off that you live in a fancy place.
And I like modern places. Milton Keynes and Swindon just work. Everywhere has good wifi, the roads aren’t full of hippies blocking them, crime is low.
At least the Sea of Marmara connects to the Med. Give her credit for that. Most Americans think Paris is Mediterranean.
Steve
Like moving to Kabul as the the Taliban are just starting to take over.
“You can buy cannoli and sushi in Swindon and Waitrose probably sell everything to make Turkish food.”
But it will taste like cardboard. At least in a place where they have made this food forever, it will taste like food. Sainsburys croissants, anyone, versus the village baker’s croissants?
BoM4 – I like Milton Keynes. Its dated modernist grottyness – that fading joke about a better tomorrow – its vaguely Germanic anally retentive rectilinear obsession, its bizarre and unnatural love of the roundabout.
It’s brilliant. It’s a cultural treasure, every bit as valuable in its plastic and plywood way as the sweet honeysuckled sandstone cottages of fragrant Woodstock in gentle Oxfordshire. It’s the Pennine Tower, the Alan Sugar, the Austin Montego Estate in Stylish Brown of towns.
I, *French kiss*, salute you, sir.
Steve at 10:56 am
I do like your comment Steve.
But as I’ve mentioned before, I’m a paranoid, Islamophobic xenophobe.
Steve,
“It’s the Pennine Tower, the Alan Sugar, the Austin Montego Estate in Stylish Brown of towns.”
Alan Sugar made tape-to-tape machines and a brilliant cheap business word processor. Along with Ah-nuld movies, Stock, Aitken and Waterman, the opening to Miami Vice, Superkings and Delia Smith he made the 80s.
I don’t know if you lived in MK, BoM4, or how long ago it was, but my BiL teaches at an MK school, which suffers heavily from ‘enrichment’. And the knife culture is quite ‘vibrant’, too.
The traffic system has always been ridiculous (based on a 60s model that was obsolete before it was built). It’s actually a grid of Horizontal and Vertical roads, like NYC, but there, if someone says I’ll meet you at the corner of 6th Avenue and 58th Street, you know exactly where they’ll be . Nobody in MK says “we’re at the intersection of H6 and V9” they say they’re in some twee name, like Mount Farm or Walnut Tree, which means it takes ages to find them (admittedly a bit easier now, with sat navs).