Lordo wrote:Paphitis wrote:Sorry but I can't see it!
Cypriots struggling for food is a little far fetched. I don't have the time to look into it but I believe it was a Cyprus Solidarity Concert.
what did everybody bring to the concert
what is being given free in schools all over the island.
In the US I remember seeing soup kitchens at one point but let's be honest here. The US is an industrial dynamo and when Americans do things they go in real big and are very resourceful and innovative. They will always bounce back and quite quickly. It is nothing new but a mere speed hump and even with the depressed economy now beginning to recover, they still enjoy very high standards in living.
Perth, is arguably regarded as the most well to do expensive cities in the world. The mining and oil and gas bubble is still in full swing and prices are at an all time high due to Chinese demand. As a result there is a double economy. Miners are earning massive pay packets. I am talking about ludicrous amounts and it is not uncommon for a blue collar school leaver to be earning more money than a doctor or expensive lawyer. Therefore, property prices are unnafordable to others and rents are high. A normal house can set you back about $2,500 dollars per month in rent. To buy a house within 20 minutes of the center, you need 1,000,000 Euros fir a 3 bedroom and for a 3 bedroom within 60 minutes of the center you need 600,000 Euros. The city is developing a breakneck speed and yet when you drive through the city, Fremantle or Northbridge you can see homeless people. Perth is great if you work in a mining or oil and gas company but if you work for a local 711 then it is not so great. As I said, it is a double economy. And if you think Perth and Dubai are over the top, in Hong Kong a 2 bedroom apartment can set you back up to 1,000,000Euros.
So my point is there will always be persons who are not traveling too well in both good and bad times and in very wealthy areas such as Perth and Dubai which are obscenely very wealthy.
The weak and vulnerable existed in Cyprus before the haircut as they exist everywhere and we are talking about a few hundred people across Cyprus. Many are not GC as GC families generally band together and look after each other. Some despair is self inflicted in Cyprus as it is elsewhere because of Drug and Alcohol abuse. So the down and outs are always there. They, are probably the least effected since they do not have 100,000 in the banks, or hold shares and property.
Bottom line is that Cyprus still has a high GDP and a high Standard of Living. The GDP of Cyprus is 3 times greater than the Turkish GDP so I don't think Cypriots will be dieing of starvation on the streets. Starvation and homelessness is a far greater problem in Turkey so go clean up your own backyard and while you're at, pick up all your rubbish from the streets. The GCs pick up their rubbish so obviously things are not as bad as in the occupied areas!
by Lordo » Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:03 pm 
