Job Discussion Forums

tvik · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 371 Location: here

just got back from the city. not sure i want to live there. i always believed that the best situation would be to live outside the city.

if you don't want to live in the chaos of the inner city then where is the best place to live?

does anyone know anything about ışık university?

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

The problem with living outside the city is that you either wish you lived in the city or spend your time travelling to and fro. Remember how early public transport finishes here. Try getting to B�y�k�ekmece after 11 pm.
You also miss out on a lot of things happening in the city because either you cannot be bothered making the long round trip or it is impossible because it finishes too late.

Sheikh Inal Ovar · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School

That hardly encourages the staff to stay sober ... I can picture them now ... like on a London night bus .. with casualties strewn across chairs and down stairs ...

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Entrailicus:

Do they really have so many staff that they have late night shuttle buses running from Taksim back to the campus 7 days a week? If so it is great but hard to believe.

I also hope that their accomodation does not have strict rules and regulations like the lojman.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I think where I live now is quite cool. It's quiet, safe, has all the amenties, reasonably priced and 6 minutes walk from the metro. So I can get into town very quickly. Oh I live in Pangalti. I used to really like Besiktas but it is too far from the metro.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Just asked the wife if she knew where Pangaltı is and it is just below Galatasaray-where the buses go. I hope this is not a cynical ploy by dmb who may have property interests in the area and hopes that by moving there he can make it cool and then cash in on the rise in property prices.

DMB Have you had any ridicule by the Cihangir brigade yet?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

The wife said that Pangaltı is where we bought the lights for our flat when we got married. I barely remember but there were loads of shops selling lights. My wife used to work in Teşvikiye and her mother and father live in Beşiktaş. Don't know much about the metro.

Tarlabaşı-that is down the road from the British Consolate-down from the exhibition centre and Pangaltı is below the bridge????

Does TG live there too?

Cos. from Dubai are buying everything.

calsimsek · Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 775 Location: Ist Turkey

Henry_Cowell · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 3352 Location: Berkeley

Golightly · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:13 am Post subject:

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Laura777 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 101 Location: Istanbul Turkey

Right place...? Is there such a thing? Cool

I lived in Santa Monica California for years and by the sea. Lived there for the beauty and to be by the beach\ocean.

Here it is the same for me. Live by the Sea and have a spectacular view. Never was in for the trendy places where ever they may be or which ever city I am in.

It is all a state of mind... Where I live now is quite historical and that is what turns me on. Couldn't imagine living in the city center. Near all the turmoil or traffic. Give me peace and quiet.

Do what you feel not what people tell you is cool.

Shocked

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:54 am Post subject:

I live in Tunel, near Tophane, and out of the three neighbourhoods in Istanbul that i have lived in so far (including Harbiye, which is right next to dmb's sanctified Pangalti -aka Kurtulus), this is the one I prefer (though I do miss the backyard trees of Erenkoy). I am close to Taksim and Istiklal but far enough removed so that I am not affected by the crowds and noise. Our street is full of lovely old buildings and family run businesses and artisanal workshops, and I have the view of an old church from my bedroom window. Also, the neighbourhood is still very villagey- everyone seems to be from Bingol- and they look after us.