Whats its like to live in Ä°stanbul?

Question

At present me and my family live down in the Muğla region of Fethiye and we are looking at moving to İstanbul as my husband is a tour guide and needs work at least 10 months of the year and our daughter needs a good school.

Can anyone tell me whats its like living there. Are any of the schools good our daughter is only 5 so will need a pre school for her.

How much are the apartments and what are the best areas to live in?

Answer 1

HI

i live in  Istanbul, i am one of the local people. i have no idea concerning  tourism jobs, coz i am engineer. however, several tourism agencies  in Sultanahmet and foreigners work there to sell tour programs for foreign tourists.

you can find private pre-schools in everywhere.

rents of apartments depend on area, for example kadikoy is mid-range, etiler-ulus-besiktas are expensive, actually there are so many places for budget , however, mostly conservative areas... but istanbul is very big city, of course you find nice places , you  should search...

good luck

Answer 2

Well, having visited the city, I can tell you that if you have money it must be great to live ther. If not, it won't be so nice, because there are very different areas: nice expensive areas and some poor very badly conserved areas.

Answer 3

It is amazing town!

But living in Istanbul is very expensive. Enything expensive. Price for petrol is aproximately 2,5 $ per litr.

Istanbul is best for visiting, but not living

Answer 4

I don't know how it is to live in Istanbul but I liked this amazing town.