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[Get Real!]

It would probably be one of the most expensive places in the States but certainly no dump.

What determines prices is DEMAND so if there are 10,000 bums looking for a place to rent in SF, then prices would obviously go high!

So the COST of housing doesn’t necessarily dictate the quality thereof. Start using your brain.

It’s a lot better than Nicosia or Limassol let me give you the tip.
Compared to San Fran, both Nicosia and Limassol look like typical 3rd world cities.

Limassol is comparable to the Riviera...

http://www.cyprustoptravel.com/wp-conte ... AIzTD1.jpg

[Kikapu]

Nicosia and Limassol are just small towns but you have homeless and poverty there too.

I've never actually seen one but if they're out there you can probably count them with one hand.

Well it is the same in Sydney and in San Fran.

You are seriously deluded... SF is a dump with many thousands of homeless:

https://abc7news.com/news/data-shows-sf ... s/1407123/

The report is very accurate. When I lived there 15 years ago, there were around 4,000 homeless. With the boom in tech companies such as Google moving into the area, rent prices has increased dramatically.
I have a friend who use to pay about $600 Dollars a month on a studio apartment (bedsit) and she had been there for about 30 years in the mission district of SF. With rent control of about 4% a year, she managed very well since she had a good salary. When she was going to leave the USA for good to Ecuador, she mentioned it to the landlord that she was thinking of moving at some point, but was not in a hurry. That was the bait to the landlord. The landlord offered her $20,000 cash if she would move in the next month or so, and since she had already bought her plane ticket to make the move, she took the $20,000 and ran. She could have gotten more, but was happy basically getting her last 3 years rent money back in cash. This has been very common practice to get low renters out and bring in high renters. The same apartment was renovated and is now in the $2,000-$3,000 range, to be rented out to the high tech people from Google, since they bus their employees in and out of the city to their work place for free.

[Get Real!]

When it comes to quality of life and value for money, you just cannot beat the Mediterranean.

Paradise of course is not limited to Cyprus… but southern Turkey, the coastal Lebanon, southern Italy and its major islands, coastal Greece, Croatia even, etc.

Not only do these countries have the right weather but quality life is still affordable… for the time being anyway.

One would be wise to sell their $2 million SF or London home (read dump) that was probably built in 1875, and move to the Mediterranean where they’ll live like kings.

[Get Real!]

As for Paphitis… he is probably the only person in the history of mankind who will voluntarily go to hell because he thinks it’s cool!

[Pyrpolizer]

Kikakopoulos… the conclusion:
blaber blaber...

Neeext!

[Pyrpolizer]

I've met one homeless person some 20 years ago in Nicosia She used to go to the empty plot by the traffic lights of ex-Laiki central building.
(The so called "Kalisperas" traffic lights).
She would sit on the ground laying her back against the wall of the neighboring building enjoying the sun during cold winter days. A total wreck, wearing a ton of dirty clothes and a heavy coat on top. That was too much even for winter..

One day I approached her and asked if she needed some help. She spoke with an accent, didn't understand anything of what she was murmuring, but in the end she asked me to buy her a beer and give her a cigarette. I went to a kiosk bought her 2 KEO tins and gave her my cigarettes.
No she said, one KEO and 1 cigarette is enough. She was about 60 years old...
I saw her a few more times and then she disappeared!

Later on I learned she used to work as a French teacher at high schools...

[Get Real!]

I've met one homeless person some 20 years ago in Nicosia She used to go to the empty plot by the traffic lights of ex-Laiki central building.
(The so called "Kalisperas" traffic lights).
She would sit on the ground laying her back against the wall of the neighboring building enjoying the sun during cold winter days. A total wreck, wearing a ton of dirty clothes and a heavy coat on top. That was too much even for winter..

One day I approached her and asked if she needed some help. She spoke with an accent, didn't understand anything of what she was murmuring, but in the end she asked me to buy her a beer and give her a cigarette. I went to a kiosk bought her 2 KEO tins and gave her my cigarettes.
No she said, one KEO and 1 cigarette is enough. She was about 60 years old...
I saw her a few more times and then she disappeared!

Later on I learned she used to work as a French teacher at high schools...

FAKE bullshit!

Neext...

[MR-from-NG]

"repulsewarrior"]

There is another rumour doing the rounds though. Apparently 2 GC's were arguing by the dam. One took out and tampon and started bashing the other with it. They got into a grapple and the one getting bashed managed to grab the tampon out of the hands of the other and chucked it into the dam. The pipes have been blocked since

Oh Shit,

Are you going to send Kikapopoulouimas up there to fish it out as part of his community service as well?
Kikapopoulouimas would kill or die for the trnc and his TC brothers and sisters. I'm sure he would volunteer for such a noble cause at the blink of an eye

Please be lenient with him,

He wants for the greater good, I know that you really do know that.

We are Cypriots, leniency is in our DNA.

...leniency may not be the word you are looking for MR-from-NG, it is the word Grace that comes to mind when i think of Cypriots, as opposed to "Greeks" and/or "Turks", for example. It is the Cypriots despite many efforts over the decades that, still, survive. It was the Cypriots that lost their lives mostly, at "their" hands who can forget. In affect; "they" subjugate us: not "them". Despite this, Cypriots remain Loving.

(never "being" one of "them" makes Kikapu a traitor; Wot?) Who. Who is the traitor?

Here i am thinking you are Chinese in origin, Turkish speaking, for some good reason living in the occupied lands, of Cyprus, a "Turk" hater no less (wasn't it you who said seriously, "...who was the Great Wall, built against?"), but it appears that i am wrong, that was years ago in any case. A "Greek" lover now as it appears reading the rest of this thread, or one in the same in ignoring what stares them in the face, and yours', demanding, even, from the rest of us (the other half) to judge, this choice as the only choice, "Greek" or "Turk", the choice "you" have made for your "self", to be hateful, where such a thing as a Cypriot does not exist, and someone who is a Cypriot is a traitor;

...yet, that such minds do exist, "our" minds in other words, a mind like kikapu's in his defense, i ask, are "you" learning that they cannot be extinguished?

Like it or not, not "Greek", not "Turkish", because as Cypriots they are. And they remain, Cypriot.


...are you Cypriot?

Nice post RW. Just to clear things here, I never said Kikapu was a traitor. I do consider myself a Cypriot, albeit a Cypriot living in the UK. I could be a better Cypriot if I was allowed to be one.

[Pyrpolizer]

I've met one homeless person some 20 years ago in Nicosia She used to go to the empty plot by the traffic lights of ex-Laiki central building.
(The so called "Kalisperas" traffic lights).
She would sit on the ground laying her back against the wall of the neighboring building enjoying the sun during cold winter days. A total wreck, wearing a ton of dirty clothes and a heavy coat on top. That was too much even for winter..

One day I approached her and asked if she needed some help. She spoke with an accent, didn't understand anything of what she was murmuring, but in the end she asked me to buy her a beer and give her a cigarette. I went to a kiosk bought her 2 KEO tins and gave her my cigarettes.
No she said, one KEO and 1 cigarette is enough. She was about 60 years old...
I saw her a few more times and then she disappeared!

Later on I learned she used to work as a French teacher at high schools...

FAKE bullshit!

Neext...

I would expect a smart person to respond with something like "maybe she was one of the patients who run from the nearby Athalassa psychiatric Hospital" as this thought always kept on bugging me. But then again all those dirty clothes, all those flies...

But no, it wasn't fake. It was true.

[Get Real!]

I've met one homeless person some 20 years ago in Nicosia She used to go to the empty plot by the traffic lights of ex-Laiki central building.
(The so called "Kalisperas" traffic lights).
She would sit on the ground laying her back against the wall of the neighboring building enjoying the sun during cold winter days. A total wreck, wearing a ton of dirty clothes and a heavy coat on top. That was too much even for winter..

One day I approached her and asked if she needed some help. She spoke with an accent, didn't understand anything of what she was murmuring, but in the end she asked me to buy her a beer and give her a cigarette. I went to a kiosk bought her 2 KEO tins and gave her my cigarettes.
No she said, one KEO and 1 cigarette is enough. She was about 60 years old...
I saw her a few more times and then she disappeared!

Later on I learned she used to work as a French teacher at high schools...

FAKE bullshit!

Neext...

I would expect a smart person to respond with something like "maybe she was one of the patients who run from the nearby Athalassa psychiatric Hospital" as this thought always kept on bugging me. But then again all those dirty clothes, all those flies...

But no, it wasn't fake. It was true.

FAKE and gay!

Neext...