Choosing Turkey for permanent residence, not everyone leaves for resort areas. Someone is more attracted by multinational Istanbul – a city with its own character and special style. However, there are also a lot of shortcomings, and some of them can easily outweigh the advantages. What exactly makes life difficult for our people in the most famous Turkish metropolis, Subtleties found out. Cobbled narrow winding streets, sidewalks that constantly end abruptly, roads going up and down – all this is non-tourist Istanbul, which is not so easy to get around either on foot or by car. On the streets, the eye constantly stumbles upon abandoned buildings, graffiti and entire areas of gegekondu – spontaneous unauthorized buildings where semi-criminal elements and degraded people live. It is not for nothing that Istanbul is called the city of contrasts, only these contrasts sometimes do not inspire at all. /sized/f550x700/9h/ne/9hnek2q36pkw40g8cs8o04woo.jpg” media=”(max-width: 549px)”> In many neighborhoods, houses are so close to each other that you can literally reach out to the next window. In the evenings, you don’t even need a TV: just sit in front of it and watch life in neighboring apartments and listen to everything they talk about. Scooter drivers in Istanbul behaved so ugly on the roads that the authorities had to take a number of measures. So, it was forbidden to get behind the wheel of persons under 15 years old, and most importantly, to drive this type of transport on the sidewalks. But to this day, scooters are one of the main ills of the city. There are many of them, drivers strive to crawl into the narrowest cracks, slip through a red light. Pedestrians they do not notice in principle. Just like car drivers. Although Istanbul proudly calls itself not only an Asian, but also a European city, some things still betray in it not enlightened Europe, but wild Asia. The fight against spontaneous parking in Istanbul, it seems, has not yet begun. One can only be amazed at how and where cars can be abandoned here: in three rows, in “pockets” at bus stops, across already parked cars, on any patch where there are no “Paid Parking” or “No Parking” signs. At the same time, there are an incredibly large number of cars in the city, so the problem becomes a disaster. sized/f550x700/33/32/3332uce2kmgwokk8408co0skc.jpg” media=”(max-width: 549px)”> Although Istanbul proudly calls itself not only an Asian, but also a European city, some things still betray in it not an enlightened Europe, but a wild Asia. You walk around a beautiful area, turned into an alley – sheets hang and dry over your head. Rumpled-looking men are fishing on the embankment. Here women are chopping wood, there an old man is pushing a cart with garbage, here sloppy children pester tourists with a request to give alms, and when they do not receive, they swear at the envy of adults. 
1. Architecture and relief
2. Lapping at home
3. Scooters
4. Spontaneous parking
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