LYNZRAB1

Hi We Are A Scottish Couple With A 5 Year Old Daughter Moving To Cyprus Next Year. We Are Not Sure Which Area To Go To As I Will Need To Work When We Get There. I Dont Mind What Kind Of Job It Is Preferably Nothing To Do With Bars Or Hotels. I Have Heard That In A Lot Of Places The Work Is Seasonal Which Would Be Of No Use To Me, Can Anyone Advise Us Of What Areas Other Than Paphos We Should Be Looking At Bearing In Mind That Our Daughter Would Also Need To Go To School (probably Greek/cypriot).

Have A Nice Day All And Thank You In Advance For Any Response To My Posting

Lyndsay
Aberdeen (scotland)

JAJ

Have you visited Cyprus? Do you speak Greek? (I presume you don't plan to go to 'Northern Cyprus'). What's your trade/profession? Why Cyprus as opposed to somewhere else?

Have you investigated what employment opportunities there might be on the British military bases there, which are actually still a British territory (Sovereign Base Areas).

Jeremy

harveyhare

HI LYNZRAB1

I have sent you PM

SunSeaker

Hi Lyndsay

It really depends on what your husband does. There are three main towns in Cyprus which are less seasonal being Nicosia (the capital), Limassol (Cyprus' second town and major port) and Larnaka (where the main international airport is). I lived and worked in Nicosia for seven years and at the time (early to mid ninties) found that it offered the best employment opportnities especially with offshore companies.

All the major towns have international schools in them so schooling would not be a problem if you wanted your children to have that type of education. With Cyprus now in the EEc there will probably be more opportunites opening up. One thing to bear in mind though is that Cypriot salaries are quite low in comparison with UK salaries.

Depending on your financial circumstances, a popular trend at the moment is to buy one or more investment properties for letting and live off the income. For this to work though you would need to own the properties outright otherwise your rental income would go into paying off a mortgage.

Good luck with your move.