Anyone living near Thessaloniki?

[Lachesis]

Hi Jane and Jack.

I live in Thessaloniki with my family. I've lived here since my childhood. I would be more than glad to help you.

Funny thing you know, we're thinking about moving to London!

[Jane&Jack]

Hi

Thanks for replying! you must be mad if you want to come over to UK, it has become a dreadful place to live. Unless you are blessed with lots of money I would say don't come over. The street violence amongst teenagers is horrendous at least 1 is killed every month in London now.

If you are still thinking of moving do it quick as the immigration laws are changing very soon. Only skilled workers are to be allowed and then you will only be allowed to live/settle here for 4 years. I'm not sure if this is going to be the overall rule or just non EU but keep an eye out.

We are moving to Trilofos July/Aug time are you anywhere near, are you from UK originally or Greek? How old are your children?

Be great to hear from you, keep in touch and the same ask any Q's you want!

Jane

[sun flower]

Hi We live in Thailand at the moment but want to move to Greece, we speak a little and are brushing up !! We have only been to Crete,Corfu, Rhodes, and love Greece and its culture. Any info would be great as it looks like there are a couple of people who have lived there for quite sometime. Look forward to hearing from you Cheers in advance Diane

[John&Natasha]

Hi,

We are also planning on moving to Greece next year in the Thessaloniki "area".
We're interested in al kinds of information: prices of houses, standard of living, health care etc.
Jacqueline, can we ask you also for some information?

Thank you in advance,

John & Natasha.

[Jane&Jack]

Hi

Areas to live: Mikra area seems ideal for us, has a small ex pat and Greek community,

Health Care: not great, better in Private Clinics, health insurance quite expensive.

House Prices: expensive, depending on what you want

Cost of Living, cheaper than UK in relation to Greek wages dreadful

Average wage per month unskilled approx 650 Euros skilled approx 1000 Euros

Average rent 3 bed maisonette approx 500 euros (per month)

I have lots of info if you can email me will be glad to help!

Jane

[John&Natasha]

Hi Jane&Jack,

It seems to be that we have the same idea, we’re looking for a area to live which has a partially expat and Greek community as well.
Can you tell me (roughly) what’s the minimum price for a detached house (it may be a tlc-house but no ruïne of course), we aren’t looking for a newly build house, that’s too expensive for us.........
First we must sell our house here in Belgium, but before we do that we want to find out if we can get a mortgage in Greece (we want the risk that something goes wrong to be as minimum as possible of course).
But this we can ask in a Greek bank next week because from 5 till 15 oktober we finally having our holiday this year.

You mentioned that health insurance is quite expensive, can you tell me what a good health insurance will cost every month?

We hope in those 10 days that we can find out /sort out several things.
We are renting a car so we are going to look at different places, we hardly can’t wait......

John.

[pio]

Hi,

I'm an Amercian writer living near Prague. I hope to move to N. Greece if I can find a rustic place in the countryside. I would like to be around animals, close to the earth, have space for a garden. Do you have any suggestions of areas to look in?

Thanks so much for any help you can give,

Blake Steele

[Jane&Jack]

Hi Pio

for some reason you cannot post web site addresses on here so if you take a look at this site www dot tospitmou dot gr you will find lots of houses for sale and rent also the details of estate agents, for rustic places you could try near Sithonia, I know of an author/artist who had a rustic cottage but not sure if it was for sale or rent, if I find out I will post.

Good Luck

Jane

[pio]

Thanks a lot for responding, Jane. I would love to connect with the writer/artist as that is who and what I am as well. At this moment I have no contacts in Greece, so any kindred spirits you know of, including yourself, would be great.

I'm a published author/illustrator (7 books in print) poet (13 cds of poetry) and web site communicator (7 web sites). I lived with Greek peasants in the 60's. Things have changes so much since them. I miss the chickens and the geese.

Lots of good to you, and thanks again for any help with a rustic house or workshop to rent.

Pio

[Jane&Jack]

Hi Pio

I checked on the 'writer's cottage' but it seems it is possibly a holiday retreat for writers, am not sure on what they offer. It is on Thassos island near Thessaloniki it says is suited for one but is aimed at writers. If you google Lord Byron Cottage Thassos I am sure it will give you the details, the link is wwwdotlordbyroncottagedotbravehostdotgr or dotcom

I love meeting interesting people with stories to tell perhaps we could share a glass of wine or two when you move over! keep in touch my addy is jane-seymourathotmaildotcom email anytime, I can send you other links then with out this problem

Jane