If you dont mind me asking, how much did you pay for your apartment and how big is it(bedrooms, sqm2, and is it new). You can pm if you prefer.

Can you elaborate a little. What's with the summer, why will I be disappointed? Why is it ****? I am somewhat restricted bankroll wise, I have to keep paying the bills at home as well sigh.

Basically it's just a bit further away from where most of the fun stuff during summer is happening, but it's not a huge "disadvantage".
You're kinda close to Golden Bay, which is one of the biggest/best beaches on Malta; You should definitely check it out!

You'll be just fine unless you intend to go out like every two days

can´t tell,cheaper.
hummmm I´m here to grind and not to get distracted.
I don´t give a **** about the crappy st julian bars tbh (coming from berlin maybe I got picky music wise);st julian as I said is perfect for really young people that are here to drink more than play.
Personnally I´ll go walking on the promenade to chill,prolly do some scuba diving,etc... so im not really into bars.
From what I´ve seen st julian is very similar to juan les pins in france if anyone can relate to it.
activity not equal to quality.

paid 400€ rent +50€ water and elec for 2 bedrooms penthouse with 2 big terraces,great view and about 50sm² inside I guess.
visited a couple other appartments up to 500€ in qwara bugghiba st pauls bay zone and that´s what you can have.

Thanks weeeez, that seems like a good deal, sea views by any chance??
I am heading over end of the month, can't wait to get my grind on.I think I'd rather prefer something a little quieter myself. Can always taxi my way over few times a month I fancy clubbing or whatnot.

Pfff been there done that whole going out every night thing, gets boring trust me. Everything in Malta seems just a stones throw away anywayz, think its like a 15 min journey if I wanted to go clubbing we'll see. I will be checking out several places beforehand and get a feel for each location and then make my choice.

Yeah of course, it's all a matter of choice.
I've been here for a while and a good part of my social circle is here and most of socializing involves going to restaurants and drinking, therefore St. Julians/Sliema/Paceville represents a great area for me to live in.

Other parts of Malta are by no means bad, depending on your interests the more lively areas might be preferrable though!

Yes, that's very funny. Did you know that that's actually how it works in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Finland, Italy and Sweden?

You asked the responsible office on whether you have to pay taxes on earnings in Malta, of course their response is always going to be "yes please, regards" in every case.

And yes, it's hilarious. In which world are they ever going to reply "Actually, we're not so sure ourselves, we'll notify you when we know"?


Either way, since you're from the UK it seems like the clear choice to remain a citizen of the UK and not worry about having to pay taxes on gambling winnings!

They have to answer whatever is correct following their own rules. If I made the same question to the HMRC (UK "IRS") they would tell me that gambling winnings are tax free, as you can also find at their website.

I told you that poker winnings are tax free in many other countries because it seemed like it was a joke for you. It isn't any joke, there are countries where they won't steal anything from your poker earnings. And it seemed to me that Malta was one of those countries, that's why I asked their IRS.

I'm not a British citizen, I'm from Spain, and even if I were British, if I become a Malta tax resident, I would pay taxes in Malta, not in my country of citizenship.

have about same terrace with country view in the back.

New to the tread , looking for room in malta 150-350E price range or searching for nice clean Grinder to rent apartments with him please private message me if anyone interested . Departure time next month .

By the way this tread is awesome , as whole travel forum section.

Nice weeeez, I am officially jealous. Only 24 days until I'm finally there too.

Are there many spiders on Malta? I have a spider phobia..

Never saw one. But sometimes you might see lizards.

You been in Portomaso? Have been there every day from Monday to Thursday last week, maybe we were on the same table. :P Its pretty rigged there, though. ^^

Well, I was in Hugos last night and it was pretty awesome, completely full until 5 in the morning on all three levels. My impression is that February is a much better month than December, much more ppl imo. And it gonna be better day by day.

Hotel for 2 or 3 nights make sense. You should contact Matt from Dhalia, he is the estate agent of almost all poker players in Malta. He knows poker players, gives you contact to Melita who provide your Internet etc.. not necessary to contact more estate agents.

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Living in Sliema is also not smart because you just waste so much money for taking a cab if you want to go out and it is simply annoying. Sliema is not really as busy as St Julians and maybe better for people who are 30+ but in St Julians you have everything you need: good restaurants, good super market (Arcadian food store), casinos, Paceville .. and everything on the same place, so it's just the smartest thing to live in St Julians. Living in Gzira, Swieqi or some other place is really braindead, imo. And rents in St Julians are not so much more expensiv than in other places from my experience.

Actually I can't remember having had any in the house at all so far, so you're gonna be alright!

about last part again I´ll have to disagree again here.
it seems people have a hard time figuring out that not everyone gonna go to the casino,enjoy paceville,etc...
Some people like it quiet and go out once in a while,some like having bars downstairs and people everywhere.
Only thing really better in that area is the food store,malta really suck for that .

ps:btw anyone have the link for the site that do deliveries?

Hi guys, looking for 2 rooms for 3 months from March 1st, dont necessarily have to be in the same apartment/building etc but the same area would be just swell. Bonus points if you get me close to my beloved bakinc00kies.

pm`d

maltasupermarket.com

yeah its a case of whatever the market dictates- ur apartment looks pretty nice anyways

Regarding St. Pauls Bay again:
When you are a pro grinder your social life lacks compared to any normal worker without you being able to do anything about it bc u work on your own hours in front of a screen. So you should at least try to keep up social life as much as possible in your freetime. your main contacts as players will be other players, people from teh gaming industry, other foreigners and tourists. You will find none of those people in St. Pauls and you will be not able to just go and meet with 3 other players for dinner, for coffee, for 2 pints, for 2 hours at teh beachclub, whatsoever. Obviously you can try to befriend maltese people in St. Pauls Bay though - gl with that and tell me how it's going.
I love Malta and I love teh maltese but teh people you will hang with and make party with will not be maltese. I've been there for a long while and have some very close maltese friends but still 90% of my friendcircle are foreigners living in and around St. Ju/Sliema.

obv. if you don't care about social life, don't like to go out, turn down the blinds as soon as there is sun, etc it doesn't matter where in Malta you live.

If you like interacting with other people on a regular basis though St. Julians area is much easier. And rents in Gzira/Swieqi compared to St. Pauls are pretty much samesame...

and one moar thing regarding the rent argument:

let's say you really only go out to party 3 times a month in pv you could've spent 100euros moar into rent into a place in st.ju area bc of taxi fares. alot of people don't seem to calculate this at at...

Thanks Tim, you adress some good points in your previous post.

See all your beautiful faces in a month!

Living in swieqi is braindead DSQ? It's a 10 minute walk to paceville ffs, do you even know where it is? :P

Yeh sry man, its not braindead, thought it was far away from ST Julians ^^