Turkey - ordinary people
Turkey is ordinary people.
And how do ordinary Turks live in Turkey? No better than ordinary people in other countries. The first "simple Turks" with whom we talked were a receptionist and a cleaning lady in Lidan, a small hotel in Antalya. Receptionist - Savage, a young Kurd, about 20 years old, with a thin "designer" beard, thin with long eyelashes. Knows "slightly" several languages including Russian. Open daily at 18:00
, sleeps in the same hotel in the staff room. He is at the reception, and lays out breakfast in the morning, and with the co-owner of the hotel, and cleans up by the pool and in the lobby. Once he complained to us that he had not slept for three days because of work. There are no exits. Salary $500 per month. Despite the fact that the meat costs $ 8. , beer $ 1.5, taxi from $ 1 per km. , a bite to eat in a cafe from $ 6. True, as they say on Russian TV - a dropper to put $ 200, and a day in the hospital $ 1000. I don’t know how much an apartment costs. The co-owner of the hotel, apparently still rents the premises. The owner of the business is his Russian wife, and he stays at the hotel day and night. He sits at the counter, serving breakfast, fixing the pool pump, and fixing the outlet for the air conditioner in the room. Modestly lowers his eyes, very polite.
I don’t know how much a cleaning lady earns, but somehow I accidentally saw how she was taking home sliced bread for breakfast.
A masseuse in four stars - a guest worker from Georgia, a shy girl - receives $ 300, there are no days off, but at least she works from 11 am to 6 pm. But the Turkish waiters in the same hotel leave the bar at 2 am, and in the morning they serve breakfast at 8. They also sleep for 4 hours. There are no days off.
The cleaner says that her husband drank heavily and beat her and she kicked him out, complains that food prices are rising very quickly. All having learned that we are from Uzbekistan, they say - Kardash - relatives. And immediately, with hidden jealousy, they are interested in Antalya - Guzal? Marmaris - guzal? That is beautiful? Of course, beautiful - especially Marmaris and Bodrum.
The people are apparently hot - in 15 days they saw two fights around them. Moreover, the first time the taxi driver who was supposed to lead us with a competitor who wanted to bring down the price grappled, the second time the minibus driver with the taxi driver who cut him off. At the same time, the surrounding men intervene immediately and begin to drag the fighters apart. And I understood that they are mostly fighters, not boxers. (Joke) Taxi drivers and sellers are sometimes rude, but they are like that in all countries.