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Originally Posted by DSQ2
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.
obv it is still good on the weekends, friday and especially saturdays are always busy. there are 500k maltese and most of them love to drink and make party - during teh week february still sucks balls though
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.
can co-sign this
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.
disagree with almost everything in this part.
only thing which differentiates sliema in case of st. julians is paceville and not everybody is enjoying pv like u and me probably
In fact Sliema is more busy daytime in summer than anywhere in St. Julians (there are way more people down at the rocks in front of tower road compared even to St. Georges Bay, restaurants are pretty much same same, all beach clubs are in Sliema (surfside, medasia playa, tigne lido, the big mall teh point is in sliema, biazza street is in sliema, etc...) - only disadvantage is obv if you grind 5days in teh casino or go out every 2nd day... Gzira is pretty much same locationwise like Sliema only cheaper and not as poshy. way to pv is the same. And alot of places in Swiqie are closer to paceville than places in St. Julians so i don't really see your braindead argument. In Swiqie u don't get seaview if you fancy that but u don't have seaview either in pender gardens iirc. problem in swiqie is there are no restaurants superclose by, thats the only real downside. For you specific case (alot of life playing and going out 5 times a week if possible) St. Julians is in fact teh best solution. For 90% of teh other people it will not make any difference if Sliema, Gzira, Swiqie or St. Ju locationwise...
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...
Last edited by TimStone; 02-03-2013 at 04:03 AM.