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[cymart]

Someone in a recent posting which I can't locate now wrote that they can't wait to leave there and come back to Cyprus.
I knew a Russian girl who was here for about a year back in 2000 but left because she was unable to obtain work and didn't have enough funds to buy an appartment etc. She has been in Barcelona over 7 years,hoping to get legal residency there and manages to survive by doing unskilled work,albeit illegally..
Of course it's difficult to compare a place like Paphos with a big vibrant city like Barcelona and having been there for just a few days,my impression was that it has a lot going for it.O.K. it's not cheap but then neither is Cyprus nowadays and a large country like Spain surely has a lot more opportunities than a relatively tiny island like Cyprus,especially for someone who needs to work to survive etc.However there have been a lot of bad reports about a serious recession due to hit Spain soon,largely resulting from the crisis in the building and property industry there although things internationally are not encouraging anywhere at present.
I would be grateful for any comments,especially from the Barcelona resident who posted here-I think it was under'ex-pats are being forced out of Cyprus by the high cost of living' etc.

[Sotos]

You are comparing apples and oranges here. The only thing that Barcelona has is some football team or somehting like that. No comparison with Paphos!!

[RichardB]

Dead right sotos

Whats a bit of Gaudi architecture compared to the harbour improvement project

[Sotos]

Dead right sotos

Whats a bit of Gaudi architecture compared to the harbour improvement project

And Paphos also has 2 Pelicans! Case closed! The only city that can be compared with Paphos is the lost Atlantis.... but of course that one is lost...

[RichardB]

And tell me has Barcelona got a camel park........

Huh no way jose

As you said sotos case closed

Admin might as well lock the thread now. Nothing else to be said

[Sotos]

Of course you mean nothing else to be said for Barcelona. Because there is a ton of things we could say about Paphos. We will just not bother because there is no human being in the universe that doesn't know about them.

[RichardB]

Exactly Sotos

Absolutely no comparison

[pantheman]

Ah yes, but Barcelona has those live still statues on the La Rambler, or whatever it is called.

How they stay still for ages is amazing.

[RichardB]

Ah yes, but Barcelona has those live still statues on the La Rambler, or whatever it is called.

How they stay still for ages is amazing.

Huh we have those in Blackpool Pantherman

Or maybe thats the druggies lying comosote on the promenade.
(hey I bet they dont have those in Barcelona)

[CBBB]

Manuel was from Barcelona! Nuff said?