getting about with english; cockroaches
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| little.miss.sunshine |
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| ive heard they can sting you seven times and their sting are like needles which you have to go to the hospital to remove because if u use tweezers it can push em in further |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:48 am |
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| francesca |
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Hi little.miss.sunshine and cannedmoose,
Thanks so much for your personal accounts on living with cockroaches in Cyprus. I feel Orthodoxy and flying cockroaches in one package are too much to bear. I better look into some other second home options...
Have a lovely Sunday,
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:18 am |
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| Svetlana |
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Hi Franesca
There are, I suspect more people who can speak English, than Greek, in Cyprus, so language really is not a problem. If you have the time and ability to learn Greek, then so much the better but it is not essential.
I know nothing about cockroaches, which suggests they are even less of a problem 
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:05 am |
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| little.miss.sunshine |
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Hey dont let the cochroaches stop you. im terrified of anything that crawls never mind fly and i seriously think if i came into contact with another cochroach then i'd probably have a heart attack but please dont let this put you off going there. it is the most beautiful place in the world and insects encluded id move there at the drop of a hat!
by the way ive only ever seen 3 cochroaches from the 15 years ive been going there and 2 of them were dead. 2/3 of them were found in the city so if you get a place on a mountain you wont have much trouble. plus a tip mothballs! keeps cochraoches at bay! smell rank! |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:07 am |
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| cannedmoose |
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| francesca wrote: |
Hi little.miss.sunshine and cannedmoose,
Thanks so much for your personal accounts on living with cockroaches in Cyprus. I feel Orthodoxy and flying cockroaches in one package are too much to bear. I better look into some other second home options...
Have a lovely Sunday,
Francesca |
Indeed, you're obvious not suited to life in Cyprus if you're unable to adapt to local conditions. I suggest you try Clacton or Skegness - english speaking, no cockroaches, no Orthodox churches... just good old beer-swilling, fat-rippling, pie-eating english folk. |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:10 am |
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| U speaking from expeerience Moose? |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:10 am |
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| cannedmoose |
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| petethegreek wrote: |
| U speaking from expeerience Moose? |
In the case of Skegness, that's what I saw the only time I visited... disgusting place |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:20 am |
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| i was stayin at a friends relatives house it was a complete dive. i woke up and there was a cockroach in my bed. need i say i just got up and paid the taxi back to my hotel. |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:54 pm |
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| cannedmoose wrote: |
Indeed, you're obvious not suited to life in Cyprus if you're unable to adapt to local conditions. I suggest you try Clacton or Skegness - english speaking, no cockroaches, no Orthodox churches... just good old beer-swilling, fat-rippling, pie-eating english folk. |
Thank you. You raised an interesting question here. Poeple have different expectations when they move to another country. Some just leave for a better climate, better food and perhaps cheaper properties, while others - and may I suggest you belong to this group- leave home because of discontent with their own cultural, hoping to find happiness by adopting another culture, religion or lifestyle. The latter hardly ever works out.
Home is something you can only find in yourself.
Skegness - sounds tempting... |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:31 pm |
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| cannedmoose |
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| francesca wrote: |
and may I suggest you belong to this group- leave home because of discontent with their own cultural, hoping to find happiness by adopting another culture, religion or lifestyle. The latter hardly ever works out.
Home is something you can only find in yourself.
Skegness - sounds tempting... |
Quite the contrary, I've found perfect happiness in a fusion of the two cultures... and I'm also quite happy with the body and mind I live in, so it seems your suggestion was somewhat misguided.
As for your first group, unless living in British enclaves, they usually end up isolated in foreign societies and regarded as arrogant Brits. I speak from experience having lived in four countries and seen how some Brits refuse to adapt to the lifestyle and culture around them... it's the Raj mentality transplanted to the 21st century. If that's the life you seek for yourself, you're welcome to it. I'd much rather be a happy mix of English body, English-Cypriot mind. |
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