Moving to Cyprus 🇨🇾 | pros, cons, experiences

[@flexmedia1924]

I have just spent the last 5 months visiting Northern Cyprus (Turkish Side) alone as a Black female. Firstly, I noticed that before I speak people stare at me constantly and men seem to think I am a sex object, either at the beach or in the streets even though I am not feminine and also have short hair. I also realised that I am then treated like royalty once I speak as I am British, born and raised and feel that I have been treated differently to other black people that are on this Island from Africa. I noticed that on the streets, there is alot of hitchhikers and I saw plenty of white European people being picked up but noticed that black people who hitchhike could be standing on the street for hours and watch as people drive straight passed them. I ended up stopping and picking up hitch hikers on numerous occasions when I realised this was the case and picked up black men and women only, simply because I knew they would have been standing there for ages. One guy I picked up said he had been trying to get a ride for 3 hours, it was pouring down with rain one evening arounnd 10pm and people drove straight passed him. I asked him if this often happened to him and he said, the white people are scared to stop for black people thinking they are dangerous. As for the black women who I picked up, they shared their experiences of being picked up and alot of the time they are asked by the drivers to perform a sex act on them as a favour for picking them up, or try to do inappropriate things. Alot of the Africans that reside in Cyprus are students or have finished their studies and trying to make a life for themselves and are treated very differently to other races. In some establishments, I was starred at alot but like I said my British well spoken language managed to give me a pass wherever I went. People kept asking me where I was from and to be honest, most if not 98% of the places I visited, I was the only black person around. I definately witnessed and experienced an undertone of racism but I did not let it bother me and was extremely friendly to everyone which can make it hard for people to ignore..most times I either got great engagement or received an apology for some inapproriate behaviour where I was prejudged based on what I look like. Northern Cyprus does not seem to get the same amount of tourism as the south and definately not that diverse but there is definately room for change, educating people and teaching them about other cultures.

[@aguafria9565]

don't judge people for judging you.

[@mikeymike1854]

Why go north cyprus,I'm not suprised of your experience there,go to the south

[@catsfan_M]

​@@mikeymike1854as if south is better

[@ytyt2045]

Stupid religiously repressed society

[@firmbutton6485]

@@aguafria9565how ridiculous

[@nornironnomad]

Thanks for making this informative video! You have a new subscriber 🙂

[@aca5712]

I learned so much in this video thank you

[@je3996]

Cyprus is a beautiful place with a beautiful weather, low crime rates, and educated and hardworking people. However, living in a small old apartment with neighbors smoking on balconies is not ideal. The city is expensive and has many dirty areas with trash. Cyprus has a high rate of cigarette smokers in Europe, and the summer is hot, similar to Dubai. Many people don't have air conditioners at home, and many roads are in poor condition. Cyprus is a place to enjoy one's wealth, not to make money, unless one has offshore ventures or is ambitious and hardworking. There are not many people who can make it happen, and many people try and fail in Cyprus. While it is a great place for holiday, permanent living is not recommended unless one can afford it. Overall, Cyprus is a great destination for those with a lot of wealth and money.

[@catsfan_M]

If I were rich I wouldn't go Cyprus ,I would go to Singapore very clean well organized country. Cyprus is extremely dusty , trash on the streets , people smoke cigarettes very much,impossible to sit in cafes outside every second smokes I can never enjoy. People drive here too much don't walk , there are so many old cars which pollute the air here. There are no green parks , no trees on the streets no shade , many roads are damaged ,dusty , there are many parking areas without asphalt ,they never clean the streets with water ,not like in Western Europe or the rich asian countries. I am so disappointed that I came here. The only beautiful thing here are the cats and the beaches.

[@lienevikmane7216]

I dont know if there is any point to move to cyprus :D I been there 4 months for work I got Invited from Linkedin in a 5 star Hotel as a bartender! What I saw in Paphos, people, work, how they treat others, what they do, how to get yellow slip, how to open a bank account, what to be careful of, got many content for things! I cant wait to tell about eveything in my youtube channel!

[@elenahuhulea1463]

Been through a similar experience

[@flyheli]

Super Zusammenfassung!

[@kierongowans3428]

Need to know how to move to North Cyprus the process.

[@thifamswitzerland-cuocsong9134]

hi friend, have nice day, nice video

[@arlenepaurnia2965]

Hello, sir, maam, good day,, how to move cyprus? Im in saudi,, what the best idea go fast ,, what th e complete requirments on it, please

[@catsfan_M]

Cyprus is nice only when u can afford to live in a modern house with pool and must have a car ,if u have to live in a small old appartment and have neigbours who smoke on balcony very much ,it is very bad .Almost everything is expensive: taxi's, pharmacies, electronics, electricity, supermarkets, u can't save any money. There are many dirty areas full of trash .It has very high rate of cigarette smokers in Europe and in summer it's very hot. There are no sidewalks in many areas difficult to walk, the streets are very dusty they never clean them with water ,so u have to clean ur flat from dust everyday which is very very tiring. Many people don't even have air conditioner at home. In winter the people burn smth i don't know exactly what but the air is full of smoke or smells chemical sometimes in the evening. I heard farmers are burning smth. I don't understand how can this be legally allowed. It's not a first world country for sure!

[@MENSA.lady2]

Accurate generally but you need to show that gaining a residence permit is not east.

[@MENSA.lady2]

Sorry for typo east should have been easy

[@aishasathsarani5058]

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[@michaelll1290]

There is only Cyprus.. nothing called the northern Cyprus.. there is however the greek side ..and the illiagl ocopied area

[@flexmedia1924]

Please explain why the occupied turkish side is illegal, really interested to know?

[@85AngelRogue]

@@flexmedia1924 you have the internet educate yourself in history and find out

[@leonidasisaak6753]

There was never turkish cypriots.some 10,000 ottoman soldiers settled in the island before the 17th century where greek cypriots have been settled in the island since before 2,000 BC.

[@kazmuz8678]

I am in Nicosia come and kick me

[@leonidasisaak6753]

@@kazmuz8678 ok ape

[@williamdavis9562]

@Leonidas Isaak, If you want to be all technical about the history the Ottomans took the island from the Venicians. Not the Greeks. Greek ownership of the island is quite recent and as soon as they took over the ruling of the island they immediately started ethnic cleansing a smaller minority group. Not off to a great start I'd say.

[@leonidasisaak6753]

@@williamdavis9562 ethnic cleansing? You mean what the british tried to portray so they can stir the pot? I guess you are not british are you?

[@williamdavis9562]

@@leonidasisaak6753 There are rarely instances of ethnic cleansing and war crimes where you won't see a denier of those crimes. Let me guess it was all just propaganda right? lol

[@rccosplay3249]

Cyprus is awesome provided one has a lot of wealth/Money/cash/Big bank account. If not then Cyprus is not that much fun. It's a place to go enjoy ones wealth NOT to make money, unless one has some offshore stuff goin on. Or is super ambitious/smart/hardworking or has some money to invest and can make it happen but not too many of those people around. I've seen a whole bunch try and fail in Cyprus. Go for holiday? YES, great reason to go... BUT to permanently live there??? If one can afford to then go ahead it is very pretty place, I like the weather a lot and low crime rates for sure. The people are educated and hardworking, sometimes... Lol

[@stevensofroniou]

Excellent review I’m half Cypriot my father was from the North side before the 74 invasion and my mother English . I emigrated here 20 yrs ago and love every minute here z . Your comment is spot on as you don’t put Cyprus on the top of your list for a place to make your fortune .

[@andrigeogiou8420]

Well The north part of the island is occupied by Turkey ,since 1974..! MILITARY OCCUPYED AREA..! The majority of sll those ,in the occupyed areas are still our stolen lands and properties..! PLEASE we expect from you people to RESPECT that....

[@hguner-iz9ku]

You occupy Turkish Cypriot properties in the South. If you hadn't started committing genocide on the Turkish Cypriots, Turkey would not have needed to intervene!

[@nelliaandreou3173]

​​@@hguner-iz9kumy guy,we Cypriots are greeks...the other ones are just from the ottomans that were in cyprus and killed greeks..

[@hguner-iz9ku]

@@nelliaandreou3173 some of those 'Turkish Cypriots ' are Greeks and Latins who converted. A great part of the first Turkic settlers were Turkmen tribes who were defeated by the Ottomans and exiled to Cyprus

[@nelliaandreou3173]

@@hguner-iz9ku those Turkish cypriots are from ottomans. Cyprus never had turks in... Also there is a theory that there were people on the island before greeks went there...so some cypriots have their dna

[@oljay1971]

Yawn 🥱 blame EOKA/ENOSİS

[@GrOrthodoxChristian]

Luxembourg 🇱🇺 next

[@konnor9577]

What is happening now to Ukrain, happened to Cyprus.

[@williamdavis9562]

@Konnor, No it didn't. What happened in Cyprus was probably like 100x worse. There is no concerted ethnic cleansing effort like there was in Cyprus between the 1950s and 170s. Yea war sucks for the Ukrainians but unlike the minority group on Cyprus they aren't subject to a targeted ethnic cleansing campaign.

[@konnor9577]

Ethnic cleansing was happening from the Turkish side. 2 paramilitary forces from both sides created a vendetta and the victims were civilians. Even though the greeks were the original population for thousands of years, turkey wanted to exterminate the entire population of greeks and many Turkish leaders clearly made this statement. Minister Mevlut wrote a book in early 2000 saying that even without a single Turkish cypriot in the island, turkey must be stupid not to invade and claim terriority. The reason Cyprus has its own government is cause of the revolution of EOKA against the British colonisers. In that period, the leftist and turkish Cypriots were betraying the fighters and many times as paybacks, the British police forces were using the turkish cypriots to murder entire groups of people.

[@johnnywires943]

@@williamdavis9562 Do fuck off and get your facts right mate.An invasion is an invasion and it was done by a country that was its guarantor.So just get your facts right before you open your gob.

[@stephanosgreco2602]

@@williamdavis9562 The Greeks were indeed ethnicly cleansed by the Turks in the 70's. I don't think it happend in the 60's though.

[@Stellarionas]

Bro, if you learn the history, you'll find out that if Greece, which was a nationalistic chauvinistic dictatorship back then, hadn't made a coup in 15th July 1974 against the legal Cyprus government, Turkey could never had the chance to invade Cyprus and destroy our homeland. There was a secret agreement between Greece and Turkey to divide the island 80%-20% in order for the governments to be glorified because they extended the borders. And these are the results.

[@flyheli]

Do the tax advantages also apply to Northern Cyprus?

[@kazmuz8678]

If you wanna make trade only with Turkey.Yes.North official language Turkish South Turkish and Greek

[@joarvatnaland6904]

Tax regime in Northern Cyprus is even more favourable and it also has secrecy

[@MENSA.lady2]

There is no such place as North Cyprus.

[@Stellarionas]

@@MENSA.lady2 Turkey occupied the best places of Cyprus. My family used to live north of the Kyrenia Mountains and it was a paradise.

[@Stellarionas]

@@kazmuz8678 According to Constitution, the official languages of Cyprus Republic are Greek, Turkish and English. If you go to the government buildings of Levkosía, on the free, Cyprus-Republic-controlled part of the island, the namings are written on both 3 languages, while in the turkish-occupied part if the island there are only written in Turkish and English.

[@dahabizizy]

he got the sexiest accent

[@algae_rhythms]

I disagree 😅

[@whatsupdude332]

turkey ALSO started an invasion? who else did?

[@Stellarionas]

Greece, which was then under a nationalist chauvinistic dictatorship used the power it had in the Cyprus Army and made a coup against Cyprus Republic's legal government in order to annex Cyprus. So technically it was Greece who made an invasion on Cyprus first, thus giving Turkey the advantage to use the right it had according to the Cyprus constitution to intervene on Cyprus when the legal government was overthrown. Unfortunately, as everyone in their right mind would anticipate (surely not the coup conductors), Turkey INVADED the island, it did not simply intervened to restore order and then leave. 6 000 people were murdered, 220 000 were made refugees and 1 619 were reported missing. 36% of the island fell under turkish occupation and this is History as we know it today.

[@whatsupdude332]

@@Stellarionas Greece intervened in Albania and Yugoslavia in the 90s, but you don't see Greek troops there. intervening is one thing, occupying is another...

[@Stellarionas]

@@whatsupdude332 That's exactly what I'm telling you, Turkey did not intervene, it INVADED Cyprus and occupied a large part of the island. Afterwards Turkey named it TRNC to try to legalize it with using the Turkish Cypriot Community.

[@gostandinostheodossiou6727]

Not safe anymore as I got mugged

[@aguafria9565]

mugged by who? is this due to refugee boats coming to the island or something else

[@mistertigre.4611]

I lived in Cyprus before and I can say it's a beautiful country with nice wheat her and food but there is no future there.

[@idaselinahobbs9031]

Too much on the history of Cyprus nothing on the types of visa and on the job market.

[@EuropePropertyDebt]

You need to visit for a holiday then check things out.

[@icc64]

​@@EuropePropertyDebtI think this the way

[@nomisnibor]

Are you not afraid of any potential civil war?

[@Stellarionas]

It's not a matter of a civil war, it's a matter of an invasion from Turkey in order to take over the rest of Cyprus

[@nelliaandreou3173]

Are you living in the 70s? There will be never "civil war" in cyprus again...the only potential civil war rn is Ukraine...

[@pentogram23]

DON'T FURGETEN ZI "UND"UZERVIZ IT'S NOT GERMAN..

[@theodoroskouris2216]

Greece 🇬🇷 next

[@nonamenoname2767]

No national anthem of its own, both greek cyprus in the south nd the turkish cyprus on the north use the national anthems of Greece and Turkey respectively so independent south my ass

[@hguner-iz9ku]

I was born in Cyprus and lived there until the age of 8 during the EOKA attacks on Turkish Cypriots. I never once saw the flag of Cyprus....but Greek flags were everywhere! Independent? Never in it's whole history!

[@gostandinostheodossiou6727]

Treatment problems

[@chrisyianni1447]

There no Turkish cyprus is Turkish occupied since 1974 with 40 thousands troops cyprus was greek for 9 thousands years the turks invaded mongol mongol

[@chrisconstantinou4965]

Before uploading another video get your facts right over the cyprus conflict and your english is perthetic

[@klarissa1985]

His english is correct, but pronunciation is because of his accent.

[@ycymrobach9012]

Pathetic not perthetic.

[@aguafria9565]

you are perthetic @chrisconstantinou4965

[@panagiotisgiannelos3767]

Also take note the fact that Cyprios drivers are terrible!! Motorcycles are rare for this reason. Average Cypriot driver thinks that bikes and bicycles are imaginary things and they don't notice them. Also they are very distractive, old (cause there are no pulbic transportation) and then you have the tourists that are confused driving from the left side of the road..

[@g.aivazidisco.lawoffice5120]

If you need assistance with the procedures moving to Cyprus feel free to contact me

[@Barbaraluna2350]

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