Yes, our story has changed too!
The calendars showed two years ago when I arrived home late in the evening tiredly and said to the lady, “Enough is enough, I'm tired of spending half of my day in traffic”. I was a new retired person, but I was quick to realize that it was not easy to get by on that salary. I had to find a job for the retired person and continue working without rest.
We talked for a long time that evening. In fact, we were not really living in the place where we lived as the big city, we were just clinging to life. The only view we could see from the window of our house, which we could work for a lifetime, was the roofs and smoky chimneys of the neighbors. Apart from the nest made by a couple of pigeons a few years ago, we had little to do with nature. Even the flowers on the balcony did not last more than a year. The poor birds did not even manage to take offspring from that nest.

Actually, the lady was right in her own right. She had worked and struggled for years she lived with the dream of traveling around the big city in retirement. The bazaar was going to visit the market, go to the movies and the theater. However, he was now aware that this would remain a dream in the economic conditions of the big city. We could only feed our profits with our pension. Moreover, we were only able to retire from the state for now.

I said;
Look, there is a word that I have known from the past but I could not understand. “Instead of being a little man in a big place, you should be a big man in a small place. “Let alone our spouse, friend, neighbor, there is not even a sparrow who is aware of our existence and comes to the window. We can change that. "Another life is possible."
He understood, but I guess he didn't want to surrender without resistance. Just in case, with the female instinct "I told you." He did not fail to prepare to be able to say.
"How will we see the children?"
“Let them think about it, too. Also, do they take us to the summer house as they go? Let's go and settle in the cottage. Thus, they come to us in the summer. We'll be together more. "
"When we are healthy, well, what do we do if we get older even more?"
"Dude, this is what you worry about, the horses will come on the plane."
“The big city you call an airplane, again noise, traffic and chaos again. What will change? "
“Now you were wrong. We settle in DALAMAN. It is our only county with an airport. There are flights every day. Five or six a day in the summer. "
"What do we do there, I don't know anyone."
“Well, if we are starting again, we choose the neighbors as well. Instead of obligatory neighboring with those in the same apartment here, we choose the people that fit our mind, we neighbors with what we want, and we travel and dust with what we want. "
He did not resist much. We put the house up for sale, we explained the situation to the children. Both for our health, and they will have liked the idea of ​​a free summer house, no objection was received. Keeping the price reasonable, it was easy for him to sell the house. A week later we got in our car and already arrived at DALAMAN. We didn't want an apartment. We looked at houses with gardens, estates with detached houses, boutique estates with pools. Within a week, we had already bought a house to live in and two flats to rent.

When we were looking for a house, they said; "If you came a year ago, you would buy another house for the same amount." You see, the number of people who think like us is increasing every year. The whole point is to dare. Instead of leaving his own life to the flow of time, he shows the courage to change according to his wishes.
The lady was not afraid. We saw that there are plenty of Istanbul fugitives like us around us. We never had any loneliness. They didn't make you feel alienated, thanks. Moreover, our husband and friend did not have that much. There were also those who left from Ankara, Izmir and Bursa and immigrated to Dalaman. There were even those who came to DALAMAN because of the heat of Antalya. We met, we were friends, we learned the environment. We have acquired an environment of our own peers. We started to share our life with happy people who got rid of work stress, who have seen life and who are looking for peace.
All the heavenly bays between Fethiye and Marmaris are within an hour's reach. You can even swim in three different places in a day. Eight months of summer climate, the days are long, the sun warms both body and soul. There is no traffic jam, no noise, no coat and coat problem. Yes, the comfort of natural gas is lacking, but the pleasure of returning to your childhood with a fireplace or a cooker is another. Anyway, all three or four months are needed. You know, if you avoid the air conditioner. Otherwise, an air conditioner is enough.

Spring is a separate feast. If you are among the pines, you wake up with the smell of orange and lemon flowers if you are neighbors of the forest and citrus gardens. Your lungs feast as you breathe in that fragrant abundant oxygen. When we first arrived they said; "Listen to your surroundings, everything is fresh and pure." At first, we could not understand, but then we understood. It is possible to reach natural eggs from the closest rooster sound, pure warm milk that has just been milked from a cow's bellowing, and cheese from the bleating of newborn lambs.
If you want to walk, follow a bee in your garden. It takes you to its hive by flying in a calm pace without sadness. After a few trips, you meet with its owner, and you will enjoy the pure honey.

If you love nature, you are much more enjoyable. It is also possible to collect the natural herbs, which are an important part of the Aegean cuisine, from everywhere. Bakla is planted here as the cows and the milk Versin. Mallow, sorrel, labada, borage, fennel are naturally available everywhere. Even capers grow on the roadside. Those who do not know what it does now learn for themselves.
When the boys came for the first time, the girl ordered lemon for the groom, it was late in the evening. He came and asked me where to sell the lemon at this hour. I said, "Get out of the garden door, on the opposite side of the road, three trees are full of lemons, two of them come and come." Then they learned that whenever you want, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, mulberries, plums, even watermelons are free for the right to see. We are together every summer.
Pets are also very cautious around here. Even stray dogs are sleeping in the middle of the road, if you press the horn, they will get up please. Chicks on the streets with their mother. Cats around here have learned not to touch them genetically. They don't even look. Last year, a friend's cat from Istanbul grabbed a chick from the street. There is no such thing here, we said keep the cat in. He looked and looked.

He said, "Does this chick have wings, does it have a beak. Does it have a beak? Does it say so cik, too? The bird is a friend. How can the Istanbul cat know, chick?" He is also the right cat of course. Nature is beautiful. You wake up with the sounds of roosters every day. Maybe you apply butter and eat your bread like the neighbor in the backyard does. The eggs are huge. Dark yellow inside. There is no chicken that does not roam around here. In fact, it seemed very different to me, the chickens don't even have cages. In the evenings, they all return to their own gardens and fly to the branches of any tree and spend the morning there. Even while walking around in your garden, you have to be careful among the tall grass. It is even possible to be rewarded with a couple of eggs left by your neighbor chicken who is too cold to go home. The milk is natural, the cheese is amazing. After we came here, we regained our first spiritual and then physical health. If your curiosity on the sea is more than just swimming, every opportunity the sea has to offer is still within an hour's distance. There are diving boats and diving schools, there are daily boats where you can go fishing by contracting with your friends, there is still the opportunity to find virgin bays special for that day, where you can take your car to the side of the road and enter the sea.

You know, there is a joke around lately;
"Friends life is good, but your money is exhausted. You are tired of it."
Believe it is not possible here. The cost of heating is short. And it is already cheap, there is no distinction between summer and winter clothes. Even cars don't have winter tires. Most of the kitchen needs are subject to production price from neighbor.

If you are interested in history, the cradle of civilization, the ancient city of PATARA, the shining star of the Datça peninsula, the ancient city of KNIDOS, XHANTOS, LETOONIA, KAUNOS. all at hand. Close to Ölüdeniz, KAYAKÖY on it looks like it was left as a living witness of recent history. Natural canyons, waterfalls, promenade places do not end with counting. We haven't finished yet.
It is no coincidence that dozens of civilizations that have settled in this region for thousands of years have chosen these places. The most recent historical example is the phrase "I promise you golden lands" when Mussolini addressed his people in the second world war. Those golden lands that he promised are the plains of DALAMAN and ORTACA. Two neighboring districts that have become parts of two different regions with the acceptance of DALAMAN tea as the border. DALAMAN is a paradise to live in the Mediterranean climate while breathing the Aegean air.

Let's come to their people. You don't feel like a stranger at all. Have you been familiar with a little Aegean dialect, no problem. They are very friendly and caring. They are in the typical tolerance and wealth of heart of Anatolian people, they share the abundance given by nature without reservation. They do not hesitate to show love and respect to everybody who comes to DALAMAN and to open their doors.
However, they still see you as a stranger. First of all, you have to make it clear that you are adopting living here. Of course, there is an easy way for it.
When do you wake up in the morning to the next-door neighbor or to the peasant you shop at the market, "What do you do?" If you say, you are from DALAMAN that day. Life is a door that is open to becoming more beautiful as fast as you adapt to the conditions.

What we mean by this short story is that;
Life is a blessing given to every person once. It is impossible to bring back anything but happy memories. Come here, live the rest of your life happily. Instead of being forced to catch up with the flowing life around you, choose your own pace of life. In this way, you will have the key of your life. As I told my lady at the very beginning.
"ANOTHER LIFE IS POSSIBLE" As long as you ask.