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[jansler]

I have 4 kids and have been here 18 months, you need to really really think, its true you wont know till you do it but if i could i would turn back the clock and not have come, theres no support here from any official bodies they treat you like dirt. you are not always made welcome by the locals regardless of the crap you read about them and well lets face it Cyprus is an emerging country but at this point is 20 years behind the UK, and no i am not rubbishing all Cypriots as i have met some great people here who i call friends and i have had the same conversations with them. Think what you have back in the UK and realise its not the same here.

[Get Real!]

well lets face it Cyprus is an emerging country but at this point is 20 years behind the UK,

Care to expand on that?

[craigbeck]

what do you miss the most?

[GorillaGal]

We are married with 2 kids a 6 year old girl and a 10 year old boy. I am 33 my wife is 40

hooray for the older woman with the younger man!

[jansler]

I think i have said it all really, i am sad that my view of this lovely place has changed, as i said i have great Cypriot friends so its not a racist thing before you all jump on me i am from a family with an Italian father and English mother, but i have had experiences with SOME locals which have left me astonished to be honest, brutal, uneducated, simple people acting not like the glossy brochures describe. This has made me think about leaving here and going elsewhere, not sure where but with the problems that my children have had at Greek schools i am almost at the point of going. Sad because my experiences will be spoken about to others and that can only be bad for this island. Part of me thinks that the locals would prefer it if we all went anyway.

[jansler]

As to what i miss, friends family and a country which has in place at times of need, help, not talking about money for doing sod all, i have always worked in the UK. As an example having had a child born here i was given forms to claim child benefit as i have 4 kids, did not want to claim but soon realised how expensive it was here we claimed it. Oh my god what a long long drawn out process it is, letters from Mukhtar sorry for spelling, letters from school copies of birth certificates. Then your told they have been lost so fax them, then your told we do not have them fax again, then when they get them we will be in touch to telll you if you qualify, if your lucky then you wait and wait and wait. Your not told when your payments start from and to, its a nightmare.
The UK is in a bad situation at this time and its not ideal but after leaving and coming here you realise its not as bad a place as you thought.
Again sorry for going on and i am not ripping Cyprus for the sake of it i am just telling of the things to expect.