I would really love to come back to live in Cairo again and was wondering if anyone on this forum has been living outside Egypt and decided to move back to our great country.

Do you have a any feelings or views to share about the move?

I would love to hear your views.

Have a great day!

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Originally posted by egyptianman:
I have always lived outside Egypt for most of my life. (Since the age of 6) I will be 37 this year.

I would really love to come back to live in Cairo again and was wondering if anyone on this forum has been living outside Egypt and decided to move back to our great country.

Do you have a any feelings or views to share about the move?

I would love to hear your views.

I have a few months ago already bought an apartment in Cairo overlooking the Pyramids to maybe help me make the move.

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If on the otherhand, you have a business, or family business or connections for a GOOD job here, you might find that it is the best thing since sliced bread to live back in Egypt. If you have a little money, it goes a lot further in Egypt and life can be real sweet here.

There are just so many factors that go into making it good or bad for those that try to come back.

thanks for your insight

I guess I don't really fall into any particular stereotype of your average Egyptian with regards to moving back because I have a family. I do understand that may be the reason to move back to Egypt for many Egyptians. I am really after living the experience while I can still enjoy it, if you see what I mean and why not give it a try I think !!

Being brought up in London from about the age of 10, I really think, talk, dream and feel British, and yes us Brits will always nag about the horrible wet weather, so I guess I would be fibbing if I said the weather factor didn't play a part in my decision to seek an alternative life style.

I am of the opinion that the world is a big and wonderful place and that it should be explored as much as one can do so within reason and without uprooting the family every second year seeking another dream. It just wouldn't be fair.

When I visited Cairo a couple of months ago, I was amazed about how it had changed to the positive. It was my first visit after about 8 years. HAS IT CHANGED OR WHAT !!!
I am sure there are people out there who would think "What's such a big deal about moving back to your own country !!!" but the thing is when I am in Cairo, I feel that an Expat probably knows more about the country than me. I feel as if I am a tourist there and everything is just as new to me as it is to the next tourist. I can't explain that... it's just a strange feeling I get there, hence my hesitation.

Jumping on a number 10 bus (yes... the bus that turns up 3 at a time on a wet and miserable Monday morning) and grabbing a copy of the Times and 20 Marlborro Lights and a packet of Polos then getting to work and greeting the security guard with " u-Rrrright matey.. how's is going!!" and his cheeky reply would be something like "Is it wet out there?" seeing me dripping with water from the rain, would make me laugh and say, "Yeah... it's bucketing down mate... good weather for ducks". Just a quick snapshot of what makes me feel I am "Me".

Starting my own business would be what I would do if I moved to Cairo, I wouldn't be able to live on the kind of salaries you mentioned. Money is really not the problem here, if you see what I mean.

Do you know what made me think of anything like this!!!
It's all them programs on telly about couples moving to France, Spain or Italy and starting over, it made us think about doing the same. We moved to Belgrade last August where we are very happy here with friends and family... the weather is great and it's an easier style of life I guess. However, Egypt would be even better, who knows maybe in a few years when my daughter finishes her college education and is ready to enter university in Cairo, until then, I can't move anywhere even if I wanted to.

Anyway... thanks again for your thoughts

Yeah.. it will be great to meet but what is an ES Falouka ?
I tried working it out, but I guess I give up. I know it's the little wooden row boats that go up and down the Nile. I don't get the ES part.

I guess one big reason for me is the difference it has made to my daughter. She is so much freer here than the UK. Which sounds daft but it is true. Yes she has to wear slightly different clothes but apart from that she has no restrictions. She can go out by herself to the shops or to visit and doesn't have to be escorted and driven there.She just jumps in a service car and off she goes. She does speak Arabic which is a great advantage but children pick up the language quickly anyway.

There is a quote 'what is this life if full of care we have no time to stop and stare'. that was my life in the UK. Commuting from West London to Canary Wahrf. Working long hours just to maintain an ordinary middle class lifestyle. Helping huge financial institutions make more money. But no time, no energy if I did have the time, always run just to stand still.

Contrast that with my life now and it is a hundred times better.

Now I came out here to live with my Egyptian husband so didn't have to worry about how things worked or finding my feet. He guided me through. But I suspect for you it would be like riding a bike once learnt never forgotten. You would easily slip into things.

We live a fairly modest lifestyle, certainly not a middle class Cairo one and we have so much. I am sure if finances aren't an issue then you would have a good life out here.

I know that man... whenever I go to Egypt the money also seems to go further too.

Yalla.. lem wenzel ya Basha. good luck