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Give me some reasons to live in or leave

From the lens Istanbul: live or leave.

Your feedback is very valuable to me. If you have anything you like or dislike about Istanbul and want me to add it here, please drop me a line.

  • TURCOLIVE Sep 7, 2010 @ 3:10 pm | delete
    Three years ago also we weight the goods and bads for Istanbul and decided to leave after 15 years. We are living in ?zmir now.

    A vacation return from Assos helped us to take ultimate decision about leave or live. We had been reached in 6 hours from Assos to edges of the Istanbul (~360 km) and it took about 4 hours to reach home from Had?mköy to Ba?cilar (~30 km).
  • Seda Jul 19, 2010 @ 9:10 am | delete
    My friend, Istanbul also my birth city and I have been away for 23 years. I wish I have never left. There is no place like home. I miss the smell of the Marmara Sea, vendors selling simits, chestnuts,corns etc., seagulls flying around Bosphorus, music, smile of my fellows , hearing my mother tongue language, art galleries, concerts, movies, visiting relatives, watching my nieces or nephews grow, being by family when we needed each other, feeling of warmness and love for each other, home made foods, having breakfasts with family early mornings , drinking our teas with laughter and jokes, walking in ancient streets, celebrating festivals and many more ...

    Yes there are many bad sides of the city as you mentioned but things will get better,those are not really worth to loose what you really have in your hands .You will understand those values when you are gone from the city.Treasure life of Istanbul my friend ..
  • OzlemErcan Jul 22, 2010 @ 5:50 am | delete
    Thank you very much for your comments. We moved to Antalya, another big city on the south coast of Turkey famous for its beaches in Nov'09. Now, every month I go to Istanbul to visit my clients and friends. It is more fun for me now :) Small visits are better.
  • EditionH Apr 17, 2009 @ 7:06 am | delete
    I do not know a lot about Istanbul, but from my limited experience I know it is a place like no other in the WORLD!
    You might be terribly bored when living somewhere else. Istanbul is the city with the biggest potential for development and desaster in Europe! Also you definitely will miss the food and the tea, also there is no other Bosporus in the world.
    I find your lens a bit typical for people in Istanbul, they say it is impossible to live in Istanbul, but they cannot live somewhere else :).

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