Moving To Egypt

[kim konnoris]

that's sensible. i only bought alot of new furniture last year, so it makes sense for us to ship it over. expecailly as it includes the import tax. i could kick myself now that our plans have changed.

Kim

[lyndsay552]

I know the feeling. We have two holidays booked for later in the year, which we will lose the deposits on and I have just went through the entire process for joining the police, for my husband to come up with the wild idea of moving to Egypt!!

[lyndsay552]

Which company was the quote from?

[chrislister]

Originally Posted by lyndsay552

We had considered getting everything shipped over but decided against for a number of reasons. The import tax is something rediculous like 40% and the furniture and things seems to be really cheap. So we are planning on ebaying and a garage sale.

So by the end of it all it'll just the two of us with a suitcase each and of course the dog!!

Yeah import taxes are very expensive, a friend of mine out there got some shoes shipped over and cost a fortune to get them thru taxes.

As for Moubarek districts, i hear some of these are very unsafe and from my own experience of being out there the standard across the board on somenmoubarek districts are unsafe.

I have already bought a place out there thru a british agent who uses hurghada's leading building/real estate company.

[demon diver]

hi everyone,yes another new member,we are also thinking of settling down in egypt,well at least having a good rest bite ther.we have got aan apartment on dp1 near completion.fingers crossed my be taking that one way flight towards the end of 2009.fancy a change of career from the building trade.got to be diving with all that lovely sea to explore.

[j4hurghada]

hi demon

yes I agree but dont think the pay is really good for the boats unless you own your own boat, there is a place going towards marsa alam that makes boats but dont know the prices of them worth alook into though.

[demon diver]

Originally Posted by j4hurghada

hi demon

yes I agree but dont think the pay is really good for the boats unless you own your own boat, there is a place going towards marsa alam that makes boats but dont know the prices of them worth alook into though.

thanks for that,i think we are looking to join a larger dive company and seeing what comes of it or where they send us.no children so no real ties so to speak of.

[j4hurghada]

demon

That should be fantastic, have you got a place to stay in hurghada and when are you thinking of moving over?

[demon diver]

Originally Posted by j4hurghada

demon

That should be fantastic, have you got a place to stay in hurghada and when are you thinking of moving over?

we are having an apartment in desert pearl phase 1.should be complete in the next few weeks or so.will be doing plenty of trips to hurghada then,will be fishing for jobs etc,getting to know people.

[j4hurghada]

Hi everyone,

I am moving to hurghada on the 20th May full time and really looking forward to it.