Six signs than you should move to Antalya

1. You enjoy being in hot climate. Your comfort temperature is +33 degrees Celsius and you can wear shorts and T-shirt for 9 months in a row. During July and August the temperature might go as high as 45 degrees. It’s ok when you’re here during vacation but imagine feeling extremely hot for two months in a row. For me it’s still better to get sweaty than to freeze my butt out.

2. You can’t imagine your life without the sea. Swimming almost everyday, walking by the seaside at night and chilling with hot tea by the seaside in winter. Most of the activities are taking place outside so if you’re not a big fan of outdoors you might get very bored, especially in winter time.

3. You can survive eating mainly fruits and vegetables or a big fan of kebabs. To me Antalya is a vegetarian heaven, however if you’re going out to local restaurants you will face whole menu of meat dishes and two-three vegetarian options.

4. You are good at learning new languages and are constantly working on improving your tolerance toward different cultures that maybe you don’t even understand. Don’t be fooled by smiling faces during your one week vacation in Alanya. Turkish people have unique culture and personality and you have to be ready to meet it and accept it.

4. You don’t drink and smoke or ready to pay more for alcohol and cigarettes. For example bottle of the same 5€ Chianti wine here costs 160 tl (~18€). And the choices of imported alcohol is very poor. You might as well read my “Alcohol in Antalya” post.

5. You’re ready for seasonal work or work remotely. It is true that the main economic sector in Turkey is tourism and to be completely honest - seasonal tourism. You could still find a job in any other spheres however you’ll need to work on your Turkish language skills and fit other requirements. Check out my blog post “How to find work in Antalya”.

6. You’re ok with being surrounded with different religion and hearing Azan (Islamic call for praying) five times a day starting at 5 o’clock in the morning. It doesn’t matter how far you live from the mosque, you’ll hear it anyway. I got used to it after probably half a year of living here.

I wonder how many of you said yes to all points😁