Comments on: Money doesn’t change everything

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:43:58 +0000

@ferhad: wow, that’s fantastic! I wish we had prices like that here.

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Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:36:25 +0000

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By: ferhad

ferhad — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:06:00 +0000

Hey in Eskişehir in Turkey some cafes charge 0.4 ytl for an hour.

By: Melissa Maples » Blog Archive » Swallow your drink before you read this

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:25:35 +0000

[...] A few days I commented on Cem Sertoğlu’s report of Turkey having the most expensive broadband in the world. [...]

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:55:58 +0000

@Geoffrey: you can choose here between limited and unlimited bandwidth, but the prices aren’t really that different, and if you choose the limited one you have a limit of 3GB per month. Me personally, it would take me a couple of days to bust right through that, and the overage charges are hefty, and from what I understand they don’t warn you when you’re getting close to the limit. So we just played it safe and went for the unlimited.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:53:01 +0000

@Thelma: I can’t imagine all those people who moved to Australia from England in the early 20th century… can you imagine the feeling of isolation, being on the other side of the world? I’d probably go crazy.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:45:14 +0000

@JB: yeah, you’d think with everything else being so cheap here… but no.

By: Geoffrey McCaleb

Geoffrey McCaleb — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:16:22 +0000

Melissa, any idea if Turkish ISP’s offer contention on their lines or have bandwidth limits? In the UK prices for broadband have dropped, but at the same time the number of people sharing the same line (contention) has increased, and the amount of bandwidth you can actually use has dropped.

Now its not uncommon to get a cheap 8-24 mb line, but with a limitation of only 20 gigs per month (so forget Joost and Bittorrent). So in that light, sure broadband is getting cheaper, but there are far more limits than there were when you had a 1 mb line with unlimited data just 3-4 years ago.

By: Thelma Bowlen

Thelma Bowlen — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:38:55 +0000

…for those of us living the nomadic lifestyle, the internet is the one country we can use as a constant homebase.

so true. there’s something comforting about knowing people all over the world are just a mouse-click away. no matter where we are, we’re as far away as the nearest IM, blog, or chatroom!

By: Jonathan Bauer

Jonathan Bauer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:54:57 +0000

I read this the other day about Turkey. Couldn’t believe it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:06:46 +0000

@Volkan: what happened? Sorry if there was some kind of glitch – I never got a comment notification from you, except of course for the two comments at 01:12 and 01:14. Any chance of you reposting? I always find your comments insightful.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:05:29 +0000

@Frida: I have another friend who lives in Denmark who implied that Denmark (except in Copenhagen) is particularly bad for expats, very few resources to give foreigners any rememberences of home, even if they’re from other places in Europe. He said it was a lot easier when he was living in Spain. So not only did you have to deal with no internet, you had to do it in one of the least expat-ready places (apparently). It must have been very difficult.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:02:24 +0000

@alli: yeah, airport layovers are the worst… I did the same in Chicago even though O’Hare is a great airport. There’s still only so much you can do before you start to get bored.

By: Volkan

Volkan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:14:41 +0000

I give up.

By: Volkan

Volkan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:12:35 +0000

Is it my imagination or did my comment just disappear or something?

By: Frida (fk1710 on twitter)

Frida (fk1710 on twitter) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:08:27 +0000

Hi, I have been following you for a while. You are so right. The internet can make a huge difference for people living far away from family.. and friends. I often wonder how it would have been for me just to have msn for an example when I lived in Denmark for 15 years, and had all my family here in Iceland. Except my husband who was danish and then of course my children. Most of the time I lived in Denmark was before internet. The last couple of years we had email. And that made a huge difference. But almost no blogs and certainly no msn. Now my children spend a few weeks every summer in Denmark with their father, but they are only a click away. Well I sure am happy we have the internet now, especially when the children are in Denmark.

By: alli

alli — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:01:02 +0000

it’s true. when i flew into the uk via paris, on the way in for my 1 hour layover i scoffed at paying 12 euros for an hour or two of internet. on the way home when i had 4 hours? you can bet i coughed it up even though it meant having no money for food once i got back to the states!