ARB360
Introduction
I am a male.
I joined expat.com on 13 March 2017.
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ARB360posted on the thread Your experience with the Retirement Visa
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ARB360posted on the thread Your experience with the Retirement Visa
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ARB360posted on the thread Hi everyone,
Expat experience
Retirement
1.- Low street-crime rate 2.- Clean streets, w/ minimal litter 3.- Great Cuisine 4.- Buddhist-based "Live-Let-Live" peaceful society.
Reporting to Immigration authorities, every 90-days.
Retirement location searches
Considering the best of Turkey - 1~ Generally clean, with crime-free streets, even in huge Istanbul. A fantastic (inexpensive) nation-wide surface-based (bus or train) transportation system infrastructure. Domestic airline travel is top-shelf, and not far more expensive than surface transportation costs. 2~ Easy to meet people, even in Istanbul, especially considering that the average Turk cannot speak a word of English, even those with a University degree. Despite that fact, Turkish people, who sincerely want to communicate, on a people-to-people basis, with a foreigner, will make a sincere effort to "actually" do so. And, they'll do so, without having any ulterior motives, in the works. A truly extraordinary society of people, the Turkish are.
1~ Turkish cuisine, although nutritious, is typically ME, and quite boring to my palette. 2 ~Turkey is a hodge-podge of societal contradictions, and extremes, -i.e., Turks are either exceptionally warm, and genuinely friendly, or, they're totally arrogant, and distantly jerkish, for the flip-side of being Turkish (no pun intended). 3 ~ Turks are also, either exceptionally open and honest, or they'll immediately seize an opportunity to "rip-off" a non-Turkish speaking person, and without hesitation to do so. That, of course, is purely our own "European-side of Istanbul" experienced/observations, and considered opinions. 4 ~ After having flipped through nearly 200 (active) television channels, in various locations, including Ankara (the capitol city), in search of just one English language-speaking channel, we have concluded that no such TV channel exists, in Turkey. 5~ Despite the fact that Istanbul is an utterly fantastic city, it is also ridiculously expensive, with very little "quality" value, for the money spent. Thus, unless a foreigner is just plain financially wealthy, then we would neither consider, nor recommend Turkey, as being among the best of long-term expat retirement locations, for the average expat purse, that is. 6 ~ However, Turkey is a great country to visit, for archaeological-site excursion purposes, for about six-weeks;.......once! Unless, of course, one just happens to miraculously meet the English-speaking Turkish love of your life, whom also happens to be visiting the Ephesus-museum site, for example. 7 ~ The conclusive questions are thus:_ did we like, and enjoy the Turkish people, during our visit? The answer is resounding "YES". The flip-side question being, did we like the over-all "system of things" within Turkey? Then the answer is an absolute NO! Turkey is a great country to "visit"! Thank you! Cheers!
Presently enjoying the opportunity to create "My Way" of a retirement, environmental lifestyle, in a politically and economically stable nation .
Great food, a generally clean and "crime-free", while being a distantly polite society of people.
People are basically the same, world-wide. If one, wisely, has no "fool-hearty" expectations, then one, also, has no broken-hearted, disappointing experiences.
Retirement
The potential
High street-crime rates.
