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[plproud]

Hi me and my wife are looking at moving to the protaras area sometime in the next year or so, is there anything we need to do once we get to cyprus like visa's to be able to work? Also does anyone know how difficult it would be to get work once we get there? my wife is a qualified beauty therapist/nail technician and i work in the motor trade for mercedes benz at the present time.
Also could anyone give us an idea of how much money we may need to bring with us to be able to survive for 12 months or so, we would be looking to rent accomodation to start with so any web-sites that we may be able to get accomodation from would be most welcome..

Sorry for all the questions but we really want to do our homework before we move over.. Thanks Paul..............

[paliometoxo]

no need to be sorry, and its nice you decided to move there, i see lots of english in cyprus and at the airport saying they lived there for many years.. work is very difficult atm to get work in cyprus where most places you will need good knowledge of greek also, or maybe you do already i dont know.. every one in cyprus has a merces or bmw lol.. 12 months? it depends what you will need how much you roughly spend in the uk per year and how often you go out and how much cloths or food and hair cuts..etc for me living alone and mostly with gf i get through around 2 thousand per month, but we do go out a lot to parties..etc

renting i know in limassol costs around 600 euros for 3 bedrooms, well it was last time i was there.

i hope it helps i did not answer your questions very well but im sure some one else can be more help..

it depends on so many things i cant give a very good asnwer..

[denizined]

1) is there anything we need to do once we get to cyprus like visa's to be able to work?
2) Also does anyone know how difficult it would be to get work once we get there? my wife is a qualified beauty therapist/nail technician and i work in the motor trade for mercedes benz at the present time.
3)Also could anyone give us an idea of how much money we may need to bring with us to be able to survive for 12 months or so, we would be looking to rent accomodation to start with so any web-sites that we may be able to get accomodation from would be most welcome..

To answer some of your questions: (disclaimer: this is just my informed opinion of course, others will have different experiences/costs living in Cyprus)
1) If you're an EU citizen no visa required.
2) Finding work is difficult, we still haven't managed to get out of the recession, unemployment figures are still creeping up and the government is tightening its belt, plus you have the disadvantage of (I'm assuming) not knowing the local language. There is an abundance of beauty therapists/nail technicians in Cyprus, just open the local classifies and its full of them looking for work. No idea on "motor trade", are you a salesman? In which case, without knowing Greek it will be challenging to say the least.
3) Rent (in Nicosia) starts from as low as 350euros per month for shabby flats up to 700-800euros for new luxury 2 bedroom flats. 500euros is the sweet spot for modern 1 or 2 bedroom flats, I'm guessing Protaras/Paralimni/Napa would be slightly lower but not by that much. To "survive" in Cyprus my guess is you'd need (not including rent) at least 600euros per month which would include food (200+), utilities (not over 100euros), petrol (are you going to buy a car? If so petrol can run at 60-200euros per month. You can't really travel by taxi, it's way too expensive and although bus services exist you can't depend on them) and then there's all the unforeseen expenses that crop up every month. That makes just over 7000euros per year minimum, plus 6000euros for rent equals 13000 minimum on a shoe-string budget, although you could live comfortably on 16000-and-up euros.
I'd also be interested to hear other people's opinions on the cost of living in Cyprus..

[beverley10]

Learn the language to give you a bit more chance of finding employment and even then as others have said,there are very few jobs around and dozens of people looking.You will need a minimum of 1000 euros a month to cover food,petrol,utilities and then around 500-700 euros a month to rent anything nice in a good area.It was impossible for my husband to find work in 2006 as an HGV driver with huge experience and after a year or so we had to return to the UK before all our savings ran out! We bought our own place so did'nt have rent to pay but still got through a lot of money just to cover everything.There was plenty of cleaning work available and we did do that but being in our 60s,it was not the easiest way in 40 odd degrees to earn a few pounds to help with food etc.
We enjoyed our time in Cyprus and do miss friends and the lovely sunshine but now we are back we appreciate just how good the UK is when it comes to work,wages,health care etc and are pretty settled now. We are glad we tried it or we would have allways wondered wether we should have and didn't.
Good luck but bring enough to live on comfortably and don't burn all your bridges like we did.We are still trying to sell our Cyprus home but it is the credit crunch and a surplus of housing that is stopping sales now.

[pretty-as-pink]

Hi me and my wife are looking at moving to the protaras area sometime in the next year or so, is there anything we need to do once we get to cyprus like visa's to be able to work? Also does anyone know how difficult it would be to get work once we get there? my wife is a qualified beauty therapist/nail technician and i work in the motor trade for mercedes benz at the present time.
Also could anyone give us an idea of how much money we may need to bring with us to be able to survive for 12 months or so, we would be looking to rent accomodation to start with so any web-sites that we may be able to get accomodation from would be most welcome..

Sorry for all the questions but we really want to do our homework before we move over.. Thanks Paul..............

Well I am a beauty therapist and I used to work approx 9-10 hours per day in a very spa so as you can imagine I was like totally knackered, most days didnt get a break as no time, so more than knackered the dehydration fits would sometimes help me pass out (but it got me out of work for a few mo's)!! take home for that was 850 euros per month plus comission. comission for selling products and taking rebookings etc. so I would pin the clients and force them to buy the products!!!!!! personally i thought that money was pants but the wife might be happy with it. hope it helps.

[Tim Drayton]

[...]
1) If you're an EU citizen no visa required.
[...]

Yes, but you still have to apply to the immigration department for a document known as a "Certificate of Registration", and there are certain other papers that have to be acquired to do this.

[plproud]

Thanks for the replys i appreciate them all but from what people are saying im starting to have second thoughts about moving to cyprus, Dont get me wrong i wasnt expecting it to be easy but from peoples comments people are basically telling me not to go and to stay in the UK!
Do people think we shouldnt bother moving to cyprus??

[paliometoxo]

its all down to you, do what you want, maybe go spend a long holiday see how you feel there? see if its for you before making deciding especially if your having doubts

[fig head]

Take your chances.. If a group of people couldn't make it
It doesn't mean you won't ..!!

I think it's all depends on u,,

There isn't lots of jobs available but if u kept looking u will find
Something to do..

AND it's worth it big time mate,, the weather, the people, the nature and the life style.!

Good luck anyway

[pretty-as-pink]

Take your chances.. If a group of people couldn't make it
It doesn't mean you won't ..!!

I think it's all depends on u,,

There isn't lots of jobs available but if u kept looking u will find
Something to do..

AND it's worth it big time mate,, the weather, the people, the nature and the life style.!

Good luck anyway

Hey emma,
Not being funny or anything but just because the people who decided to go back to their home town, doesnt mean they didnt make it in cyprus, it meant they simply didnt want to be there!
see you FB, man your brave to post your "before going out" pictures on there!!!!!