Paphos Life

With regards to funding, the government are the ones that have done their sums and said 4% will pay for the treatment for patients... That´s what I don´t believe. E. g. the cost of the German healthcare system amounts to 12% of GDP. If I remember correctly that number is 9% for the UK. How can 4% o...

With regards to funding, the government are the ones that have done their sums and said 4% will pay for the treatment for patients... That´s what I don´t believe. E. g. the cost of the German healthcare system amounts to 12% of GDP. If I remember correctly that number is 9% for the UK. How can 4% o...

Where I´m from there is photovoltac installation mounted on a revolvable basis which follows the sun, driven by an old church-clockwork. I wonder why that´s not standard everywhere (ok, doesn´t have to be church-clockwork).

trevnhil wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:14 pm

Now that you have posted about it, I remember that the contributions are going up next year to pay for the inpatient treatment

If I remember correctly it will rise to less than 4% of your income. I highly doubt that will be enough to provide for a decent level of health care.

galexinda wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 01, 2019 7:17 pm

In 2020 you file for the 2019 tax year.

Thanks. Do you happen to know whether you need to file even if you´re non-domiciled and haven´t joined GESY?

''The current year will be the last year when it will not be mandatory for a Cypriot tax resident under the tax-free annual income limit of €19500 to file a tax return. From 2019 everyone will be required to submit a tax declaration'' (Article dated October 2018). http://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en...

Our house didn't have the means for central heating but we put it in entirely internally (no heat losses to the outside world). We had the pipes run in white-painted steel channels which are up against the ceilings and are never seen. There are smaller drop channels housing the two pipes above each...

I have one atorvastatin tablet each day, and the Pharmacy give me 2 boxes of 14.. But on my monthly prescription it does say 2 boxes.. So I think your friend needs to revisit the doctor and have the prescription changed.. I fail to understand why drug companies package many of their medicines as pa...

In East Berlin it was somewhat better as it was prioritised when it came to supplies. In 1978 we were eating a 3 course meal (flambeéd at the table) at the restaurant next to the mayor´s hall for 6 Eastern marks. The official exchange rate to DM was 1:1 but the black market rate was 1:10. In front o...

I don´t know about this but you can use voip services like dialnow.com or voipbuster.com and get dirt cheap prices (e.g. dialnow: 0,6 cent/min) from your smartphone.

LouiseCastricum wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:03 pm

Very interesting post. Thank you !
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You´re welcome. If interested you can read more about it here: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/07/euro ... index.html

So, it was no wonder when people left the place towards West Germany, but for many it was not easy to cope with normal 10-11 working hours a day, specially when they used to work only a couple of hours/day in their previous jobs. It was also not easy for people in Western Germany to come up with th...

In my Germany bank account (which is completely free of any charges) and my broker account.

Do you even need a Cypriot bank account anymore given that there are services like revolut.com? Does anybody have experience with them? Are they reliable and convenient?

People forgot what life in communist Eastern Germany was like. I will never forget those 2 trips I had taken there before the wall came down. E. g. the intimidating search process you were subjected to at the border. Or that the hotel restaurant had a 5 page menu but you could only order a sandwich ...

Devil wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:40 pm

jeba wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:37 am

you could walk to what is now the continent.

Not at my age, you couldn't! Takes me all my time and energy to walk to my car parked outside

But during the last ice age you´d have been 10000 years younger!

at the end of each of the ice ages somehow the ice in the glaciers somehow melted, and as a result a huge amount of water from the huge glaciers resulted. The result being a dramatic rise in sea levels? Yes, that´s why Great Britain has been an island since the end of the last ice age. It wasn´t al...

WHL wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:21 pm

where people sit an on line English exam before being excepted as members?

Did you write it that way to wind people like me up?

J B wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 02, 2019 10:08 am

Why do folks call it "Lidls" when it's Lidl?

And why do they pronounce it "Liddl" when it´s actually "Leeedl"?

Looking at note 7 of the Deloitte leaflet, it says that we don't have to pay the Special Defence Contribution until we have been resident for 17 of the last 20 years preceding the year of the return. True, because that makes you a non-domiciled resident (unless your dad was Cypriot in which case yo...