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[bill cobbett]

i mean greeks... cypriots ...turkish people turkish cypriots also.. who go to england for work and manage to make lots of money, the kind of money they would of never made in cyprus

i have lots of relatives in the uk, half of my dads family fled cyprus before and after 1974 and they have guest houses and fish and chip shops and they make well over 100,000 a year with no qualifications at all or having even gone to school

Reh Palio, can tell you mate that invvvvho, those (inc my parents and the parents of many others) who left CY in the '50's and went to GB and elsewhere in the Diaspora, (and it doesn't matter what tribe) had a very hard job and if we, in places like here in London, have some comforts today it was through an awful lot of pretty hard work by the older generation.

Believe you me mate could tell you stories of sacrifice and hardships in foreign lands, but they're long stories and Milti is better at telling stories of those days than me.

[paliometoxo]

its nice to hear them and how things where in those times

[bill cobbett]

its nice to hear them and how things where in those times

er..... Pappou Miltiades! Bou eeseh? ........

[CBBB]

its nice to hear them and how things where in those times

er..... Pappou Miltiades! Bou eeseh? ........

When he arrived on the boat.........................

[paliometoxo]

its nice to hear them and how things where in those times

er..... Pappou Miltiades! Bou eeseh? ........

pe mas esi pou kseris knn istoria pou palia.

[bill cobbett]

its nice to hear them and how things where in those times

er..... Pappou Miltiades! Bou eeseh? ........

pe mas esi pou kseris knn istoria pou palia.

.... the next time someone starts a post about it I'll contribute.

Those were hard and interesting times.

[BOF]

So Basically England has been very good for Cypriots? those that went and settled there that is?
Many of them settled there and did very well.
Im so pleased to hear it - one hears so much negativity here about the English and England.
I often thought that so much of the slagging off of ordinary people in England was unwarrented, as when the Survivors and those fleeing persecution at the hands of Russian Butchers during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 arrived here they then, as now had nothing but respect for the country that took them in and gave them the opportunity of restarting life anew.
It will be interesting when the offspring of a Greek speaking Cypriots daugher who my wife went to youth club with, comes over to visit relatives and stays with us for a time, she wants to visit her parents house in the karpaz area and we are taking her.
Then perhaps perceptions can be discussed in a friendly atmosphere.

Obviously the ramblings of a pissed Boring Old Fart!

No the ramblings of someone who was there at the time
.. I dont drink - whats yor excuse?
And not all the cyps that arrved were nice guys - i remember a lot of trouble in the north of London when some of the crooks that had been running prostitution and crime in Cyprus tried to set out their stall when they got here...