Time to fall? Emigration from Russia.

Again about the naive "moving to Cyprus urgently!" vinitski wrote on August 14th, 2016

Well, I wasn't going to write anything on the blog today. It’s hot outside, the sea is calm, the beach is full, and one indignant citizen of Moldova wrote in a personal message again, who, after reading several of my answers on the Russian-language forum about Cyprus, began to accuse me of disinformation and, in general, the malicious collapse of his pink picture of the world as a whole. By the way, among the "migrants" who have been trampled in recent weeks, in addition to the traditionally Ukrainian "experienced restaurant workers", there appeared earlier rare Belarusian and even Russian conquerors of the labor market of the island of Aphrodite.
This text only concerns job searches and documents for people who are not ready to apply for positions in international companies, and therefore, if it does not concern you, you can not read further!


I have already touched many times on the topic of the meaninglessness of talking about low-skilled, and generally unskilled, work in Cyprus for citizens who did not bother to be born in their time in the European Union. But blue dreams, supported by pictures on the Internet, stories of "experienced" and nonsense, in abundance distributed by voluntary and involuntary Witnesses of the Successful Migration, continue to excite the minds and imaginations of many seekers of happiness over the hill. Sometimes, even a personal visit on a weekly voucher to a two-star house of a humanitarian and a collective farmer in Cyprus does not refute the sweetness of these bright dreams. Stunned by local prices, such characters convince themselves that the salaries, of course, are waiting for them here accordingly.
Well, since we are talking about salaries, let's start with them. The first blow for a person who has sweet dreams about his successful employment as a junior assistant to a senior janitor is the disproportion between local salaries and local prices. Yes, against the background of salaries in the former USSR, including both Estonia and Tajikistan, the Cypriot minimum wages look quite attractive.
As much as 870 euros, the minimum in the first six months of work, then rising to 924 €. True, in real life, employers often manage to underestimate the number of working hours, forcing employees to work 6 hours a week for the same 800-900 euros. And in agriculture, where many people who have heard of crazy earnings somewhere in the strawberry fields of Norway are aiming, after deducting the payment for food and accommodation (usually in a hastily converted chicken coop), the minimum, and it is the only salary for who knows who and who knows where , is the same 425 euros. A very good amount for residents of Bangladesh, who are used to eating rice three times a day, but extremely low even for guest workers from the edges of Count Dracula.

And against the backdrop of Cypriot food prices, often ready to argue with London ones, local salaries may even seem like unemployment benefits. Which, to some extent, explains the productivity of labor in Cyprus, but does not in the least negate the fact that most products and goods are extremely expensive against the backdrop of prosperous Europe. And the cost of renting a house, which is relatively low in comparison with the same Europe, all the same, relative to the real earnings of the romantics of a mop and a shovel, turns out to be completely unbearable for the budget of a single person.
But this is all, in general, meaningless lyrics. The main thing: Cypriot (like all European, but especially strict here) labor and immigration legislation practically prohibits the work of citizens from third countries that are not members of the EU. Of course, many of my readers are well aware of this, but I am writing for the numerous "pigs" who imagine that they, with their red stool with their "willingness to work hard and well, not for the first time," are long-awaited and the only applicant for low-paid jobs in Cyprus.


By the way, good news! Unemployment shows a clear decline from last year's 15% to 14.4% recorded at the end of July! :) Life is getting better! True, the Cypriots themselves are in no hurry to take these places at a construction site or behind a counter, and they are successfully replaced by continental Greeks (including those from the banks of the Aragva and Kura), and simply, numerous residents of Eastern Europe, starting from the same Estonia and to Bulgaria, including the relatively prosperous Poland and Slovakia. And the rest of the entrance to the labor market is closed. Well, only in exceptional cases, when the employee is an unimaginable virtuoso of the game on the welding machine, and the employer has the ability and desire to prove that there is no one from the locals of this level of skills and is not expected. Quite easily (not only due to the relative liberality of laws, but also due to traditional corruption) temporary work visas are issued to "female workers in the entertainment sector", as "artists" from brothels are modestly called. But even there, the screws are gradually being tightened.
Actually, this can be the end: the chances of legal employment not as a "blue or white collar" (this is a separate story that is not related to the subject) for a person from Russia-Ukraine-Belarus (hereinafter referred to as a meat processing plant) is exactly ZERO. Despite the obligatory "success stories" that turn out to be either songs by Rabinovich, or "and then Rockefeller's grandmother died and left him 30 million."

The fables about how, they say, you can stay and work illegally, are not worth the time spent at all, and therefore I do not touch on them. The only thing this guarantees is trouble with the law and non-payment of the meager wages that frostbitten employers can offer in such cases.