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Comment by golergka | Hacker News Reader

Ironic — I'm reading this in my Istanbul airbnb, having left Russia in total emergency just month and a half ago, living out of a single suitcase, without any idea of where I'm going to live. And just before I opened this blog post, I was thinking about how comfortable and surprisingly modern Turkey appears to be, and if I, like a lot of my friends, should later apply for a citizen's permit here.

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Istanbul is a beautiful city. It's full of colors, tastes, contrasts, different experiences. But it takes time to feel like you belong somewhere. With this belonging, we start to become much more critical. You get more concerned and more affected by day-to-day aspects of life that you don't pay much attention at first (or you don't even have to pay attention to those at first).

Enjoy Istanbul! It's a beautiful time of the year, too. I wish you best of luck in your future adventures.

I'm german and hate every thing in Germany. I love to live in Portugal. Lot of Portuguese people that I know don't understand it. Lot of germans that I know understand it pretty well ;)

I was living in Istanbul before I moved to Germany. You will, too, soon start noticing the serious problems I at some point thought are not solvable any time soon. Some of them are not solvable AT ALL. Like the earthquake risk that scientists have been warning about since years. An earthquake as strong as 7.0 in a city of over 15 million people with almost no preparation. That's a nightmare.

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