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Hi, Maltese here, always lived here since birth, my family is Maltese going back generations. Off the top of my head: 1. The country is constantly polarised. P
by purrcat259 3y ago
Hi, Maltese here, always lived here since birth, my family is Maltese going back generations.
Off the top of my head:
1. The country is constantly polarised. Politics and football especially. Voting based on your family's political legacy is very common.
2. The idea of being constantly ruled by someone else used to be s convenient excuse to steal from the colonists. The downside is that this attitude never left with the british, so tax evasion is rampant as if you're sticking it to the man by doing so... But in reality you're stealing from yourself.
3. While similar to Ireland in the sense that the economy grew very fast very quickly, it has the opposite problem when it comes to housing: massive supply is not managing to sate the massive demand, so housing prices are persistently astronomically high.
Happy to answer more questions.
- throwaway2037 3y agoYou are an EU citizen. Why do you stay? You could move to Germany or Netherlands and have a better life without all that nonsense.
- purrcat259 3y ago1. Language: I'd be moving somewhere where the primary language is unknown to me (although I studied german for a while in school). 2. Convenience and support structure: I have young children and their grandparents live 5-15 minutes away. 3. I have a vote here and therefore a sliver of a say. If I go elsewhere, all I'll have is my voice, which will be the voice of a foreigner. My wife and I have resolved to leave, but not before our parents pass away. Its our one and likely only major blocker. In fact I shifted to working fully remotely during the pandemic to make this eventuality smoother.
- sumedh 3y agoI know an older gentleman who moved out of Malta 40 years back. Is there any Maltese phrase I can tell him which will make him scratch his head wondering how do I know that.
- purrcat259 3y ago"kif ahna xbin? Kollox sew?" Its an informal greeting, usually to someone with whom you're already acquianted with. It translates loosely to: "how are you my friend? Is everything ok?" The x is pronounced the same way you would pronounce "sh" in "shell" in english (so KOLLOSH not KOLLOKS).
- sumedh 3y agoThank you so much. I am sure he will love it. He likes it when I say Bonswa. I asked ChatGpt to help with the pronounciations. This is what it said. So, the phrase "Kif aħna xbin? Kollox sew" would be pronounced as "keef ah-na shbin? kol-losh sew".
- purrcat259 3y agoYep that pronunciation would be spot on. Bonswa is very much an older generation term so I'm not surprised they enjoy it