I am a Turkish billionaire
 

The Turkish Lira, which has always been a hghly amusing currency due to its ridiculously bad exchange rate, fell even further after Turkey voted against the United States last week.

The Turkish Lira is currently trading at 1,578,302 lira to the dollar. This means that, in Turkeish Lira, I am a multi-billionaire. I just wanted to let all you peons know so you can start sucking up to me in order to be close to my wealth and power.

Carry on.

SpaceAce

You watch to much Howard Stern


Tanker

Hah, interesting that you say that because I can't stand Howard Stern. I've never seen his TV show and I haven't heard his radio gig in years. Did he say something about lira, too?

SpaceAce

Space,

I remember when we took a boat from Rhodes Greece to Turkey, it was like 2-3 mill. Lira for a burger king meal :))

Funny, I went to Turkey a couple of years ago and took 10 million out of the bank. I thought that would be plenty of money until I found out it was like 3 bucks.

Turkey should be smart, and strip some of thos 0's on their bills, the Russians did it with the Ruble.

they can't right now.. a country can make a monetary reform when the inflation is stable...

turkish dialers rule :thumbsup

I found a walled with 10 million when I was in turkey. I bought a watch. Then it got stolen. Damn those bastards! The watch isn't theirs! (maybe).

doublepost

Yes, I've wondered about that :) In an economy that repressed I'll bet you can get domestic servants really cheap. You could live like a Turkish king on a thousan dollars per month.

SpaceAce

seriously, how much would it cost to live litterally like a king in turkey?

you're right.. but face it, ain't so nice living there right now near iraq... and with those rebel kurds...

define "king" first...

Nice house, butler, car (what kind of cars do they haev there?)
no need to work... hard

well now i know to ditch my turkish traffic

nobody in there right mind is gonna pay $123,000,000 for 1 month at bangbus

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

if you have money you can buy ANY car you want... Renault Meganne is a popular car in Turkey.
I think $$2000/month is more than enough to be a little king in Turkey.
I'm a little king in Roumania :)

Depends on where you live in Turkey. If you make around $2000 a month in Istanbul, you will be middle class. But you can live like kings with 2k in southeast, those cities near Iraq, Iran and Syria border. I would not recomend anybody to live anywhere in Turkey that has more than %30 kurdish population...

hmm.. maybe if I'd move there, I'd bring a 5.0 and scare everyone there.. ;)

what's a 5.0?

a 5000cm3 motor car.

asuna: don't think so. There are plenty here too...

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Not a dime!

Here's the blue print:
Marry your cousin, get 10 kids, send them to Scandinavia and let them collect welfare.

In Istanbul? A couple of million usd. In the east? A couple of thousand, lol.

thats funny when i was in turkey in january
i got 1,665,000 TL for every 1 USD.

i think you got ripped off buddy

:1orglaugh

I was there 12 years ago and on our first stop my friend and I got $100 USD on our visa?s which was given in Turkish Lira.

We never spent it all during the week and bought so much shit I couldn?t believe it.

I still have at least 800,000 left somewhere, when I tried to get it back in USD 2 years later when I moved I was told it was worth maybe $13 USD

Tanker I want a drop down window too :)

an avearege condo starts at $350.000, a car.. like cherokee $60.000, and $10.000/month makes you feel good in Turkey.. foods are very cheap.. and textile.. you just need to run a site and enjoy it :1orglaugh .. Turkey is a heaven

I don't think I could ever live in Turkey after seeing The Midnight Express...

That movie is joke. I bet my life that you will be safer in a Turkish prison than an american prison unless you are a terrorist. At least they don't fucking rape you...

What city did you go?

I miss my time spent in Turkey...

I bought some nice gold jewelry, ate some bitchen turkish food, drank some good b00ze, etc etc etc...

one of these days I'll have to go back as a civilian to see if it's just as good a time...

LOL, yeah right. Turkish prisoners don't engage in violent homosexual acts when they're locked up.

Guess what, when you cage people like animals they will act like animals. Not to mention that prisons tend to be packed with less-than-savory people to start with. Nationality doesn't have much to do with it.

The movie, incidentally, is based on a true story. I am sure they embellished, but it isn't like they made it up out of whole cloth.

SpaceAce