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Istanbul Productivity: Six Cafes to Head with Your Laptop Near Taksim Taksim Square is a place that is planned into almost every trip to Istanbul, one way or another. The name “Taksim” means “division”, from the days where the square held a stone reservoir to distribute water to the other parts of the city. Having been the scene of other forms of division and ...

On Being Happy in Istanbul Being an expat living in Istanbul over the past few years, I often get asked this question: Are you happy in Istanbul? This query usually comes from friends from my home country and people that don’t live in the city. I often also get asked another variation of this question by random people livin...