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[phoenix]

Came here hoping my children would have a safer environment to grow up in, thats fairly true until you go to a greek school then itsl ike hell on earth rasicm is the only way i can describe it and i am hoping to return to the UK thats how bad it is here

what safe environment? remember 1974? what makes you think that won't happen again? or that something nuclear won't happen in the middle east. your are all screwed if there is some nuclear accident. people drive like maniacs, in my week stay i saw two accidents in one day. and i read the posts on this forum, and get the impression there is no government agencies overseaing things like contractors doing good business practices, or that people poison other people's pets, and now i find out about land mines in CY?!!! CY is a tiny little defensless island. i sure as hell wouldn't feel safe in Cyprus. not at all.

What a lot of backward scaremongering.

"something nuclear" . . . . really GG, where have you left your mental capacities recently?

[cyprusgrump]

Came here hoping my children would have a safer environment to grow up in, thats fairly true until you go to a greek school then itsl ike hell on earth rasicm is the only way i can describe it and i am hoping to return to the UK thats how bad it is here

what safe environment? remember 1974? what makes you think that won't happen again? or that something nuclear won't happen in the middle east. your are all screwed if there is some nuclear accident. people drive like maniacs, in my week stay i saw two accidents in one day. and i read the posts on this forum, and get the impression there is no government agencies overseaing things like contractors doing good business practices, or that people poison other people's pets, and now i find out about land mines in CY?!!! CY is a tiny little defensless island. i sure as hell wouldn't feel safe in Cyprus. not at all.

What a lot of backward scaremongering.

"something nuclear" . . . . really GG, where have you left your mental capacities recently?

Drunk prolly...

[Sega]

Came here hoping my children would have a safer environment to grow up in, thats fairly true until you go to a greek school then itsl ike hell on earth rasicm is the only way i can describe it and i am hoping to return to the UK thats how bad it is here

what safe environment? remember 1974? what makes you think that won't happen again? or that something nuclear won't happen in the middle east. your are all screwed if there is some nuclear accident. people drive like maniacs, in my week stay i saw two accidents in one day. and i read the posts on this forum, and get the impression there is no government agencies overseaing things like contractors doing good business practices, or that people poison other people's pets, and now i find out about land mines in CY?!!! CY is a tiny little defensless island. i sure as hell wouldn't feel safe in Cyprus. not at all.

Statistically speaking Cyprus is safer than both the UK and US. If I so wished I could walk the streets at midnight and I know I would not get physically or verbally abused (it might be different if I was a woman). No nuclear thing is going to happen and if it did the UK government will have to do something to help all British passport holders, not to mension the whole of the European Community. I felt more afraid in the UK rather than in Cyprus. When did you last visit Cyprus?

[Bill]

Came here hoping my children would have a safer environment to grow up in, thats fairly true until you go to a greek school then itsl ike hell on earth rasicm is the only way i can describe it and i am hoping to return to the UK thats how bad it is here

Well janser now you probably have a good idea what it's like as a foreigner in the UK

You want to be a Greek and Arabic speaking 8 year old child arriving as a refugee in the UK to understand the meaning of racism.

I couldn't understand a word of English when I first went to school but after the first week I understood quite a few words ~ all bad and basically telling me to f/ off back where I came from as I was regarded as a illiterate wog that had no rights living in a civilised country .

The element of racism is everywhere foreigners settle ~ it's the indigenous populations way of seemingly protecting themselves from outsiders.

It doesn't matter where you go in the world it's the same with various degrees of toleration.

The main problem in Cyprus is that to many English it appears like the UK with sun and they move over with this wonderful idea it will be like living in Essex but much hotter ~ the developers and estate agents often make matters worse by the promises of how wonderful it will be without pointing out the negatives which may destroy the Cyprus dream.

I can think of much worse places to live in the world and in fact have already lived in one of them .

It is ( up to now ) much safer to live in Cyprus than many other countries around the world the UK included ~ how long it will stay that way is anybodies guess.

I think janser that when you took off your rose tinted "Cyprus is wonderful" glasses you saw the reality of living abroad ~ that reality would be the same no matter what country that may be.

Bill ~~ Quite happy in Cyprus

[webbo]

Were thinking about living/working abroad for some years previously as we thought it good to expand one's mind and life experiences. Webbo was offered a job so Cyprus it was - via British airways!!

Bubbles x

[webbo]

Cyprus! Wot Cyprus, really Cyprus? I thought Larnaca was in Essex!

I'll be buggered, I'm abroad!

I thought you lot were immigrants.

Rawk

and your signature had me nearly peeing myself

"You are more than welcome to join the British Commonwealth Nuisancespastic Forum, but be aware that there is a Real Nutjob Policy in force."

[purdey]

I don't live in Cyprus full time anymore, (work commitments)but I did and had very few problems,if any.I learnt to speak Greek and that seemed to open more doors and give me a wider circle of friends.

[Nikitas]

Gorilla Gal wrote:

"i sure as hell wouldn't feel safe in Cyprus. not at all."

OK GG want to take up a little Internet imposed challenge? I will walk any street in Cyprus at 3 am unarmed. Then I will name a street in New York where you are to do the same. Want to try?

Like most Americans you confuse the issue. We are talking personal safety here and you bring in a host of unrelated stuff like nuclear accidents etc. There are no nuclear reactors in the vicinity of Cyprus. 1974 was a military action and not an everyday occurence you are likely to meet with while driving to the supermarket.

Driving is no worse than many other places and certainly better than Italy or Spain.

Get a grip please!

[Nikitas]

Phoenix wrote:

"His school in the UK had a number of severe racist incidents and was rife with bullying. It was looked on as part of the UK public school culture"

Yes, I recall that peculiarly British rites of passage, the fight with the class bully. Had to do my first one the second day at school, a tough north London Comprehensive. I won the fight but was punished at home for having torn my clothes. The first of many till things got uglier as we got older.

I notice that when a school fight happens in Greece the kids intervene to break it up, in England they formed a circle around the combatants shouting "bundle" and they all regarded it as high entertainment.

As for racism, I have a full repertoire of names, starting with the gentlest which was "bubble" and going on from there. And people have a nerve to complain about racism in Cyprus!

[GorillaGal]

Gorilla Gal wrote:

"i sure as hell wouldn't feel safe in Cyprus. not at all."

OK GG want to take up a little Internet imposed challenge? I will walk any street in Cyprus at 3 am unarmed. Then I will name a street in New York where you are to do the same. Want to try?

Like most Americans you confuse the issue. We are talking personal safety here and you bring in a host of unrelated stuff like nuclear accidents etc. There are no nuclear reactors in the vicinity of Cyprus. 1974 was a military action and not an everyday occurence you are likely to meet with while driving to the supermarket.

Driving is no worse than many other places and certainly better than Italy or Spain.

Get a grip please!

hey, i'm 40-something years old, i HAVE walked the streets in NY at 3am, and have never had a problem.
however, in CY, in my weeks stay, i saw 2 car accidents in one day, and had some creepy guy following me around in a car trying to pick me up. THAT was scarey.