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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ayisha: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ?????: [qb] UP. [QUOTE]Originally posted by ?????: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by el_ka: [qb] i decided to post this because lately for me life in cairo became unbearable. i live in an area in cairo called mohandessin, which is considered by most egyptians as being high class and renting or buying flats in this area can be quite expensive. what i wonder is how much worse a low class area will look like if mohandessin is this bad? here the parking area, which right now extended 2 more lanes in the street, is full of fancy cars and my street full of expensive shops but also the dirt here makes the place look like a garbage hole. each time i get out into the balcony i look on the roof above the ground floor and i feel like screaming. it's decorated with women's used pads, plastic bottles, empty pizza boxes, plastic bags and anything a person might consider garbage. if i look from the other window i find the intersection blocked and drivers honking till their fingers hurt and then they give up for half a minute or so. besides the fact that the cars here make the air so polluted also there is beggars or bawabs that sometimes burn garbage in the street and they make an awful smell, then the noise the cars make just drives me insane, especially the shurta car that can wake the dead. each day we go down and at any given hour the streets of mohandessin are blocked with cars, when we return home there is no parking place so we have to go around searching for a place to leave the car, sometimes parking it few streets away from our building. if sometimes because of all this "zahma" i decide to walk then i will be annoyed by men in the streets because they stare like hell and always have something to say. then if i need to cross the street i better recite the shahada before, that's how crossing the street is in cairo. when i first came here i thought that im so lucky to live in a muslim country, to hear the calling for the prayer daily, to eat halal food, to be able to go to a restaurant and not have to worry that my food was cooked with pork or the cream in my cake might have alcohol. also i thought that because men are muslims they will never harass women in the street or cheat women. now i don't feel that im in a muslim country anymore. where is the muslims in this country?? i found that lately harassment here is worse than in non muslim countries. when i go shopping for vegetables there is no prices written so i have to argue with them most of the times because they want to give me a higher price. sometimes i buy a product from the pharmacy just to realize at the end that it's not even the real product. the list can go on and on but at the end of the day i am married here and i can't leave so what can i do not to go insane?? i want to ask egyptians why people here are dirty like this? why they like to ride fancy cars and throw garbage in the street right from their car's window? why people here lie a lot and cheat a lot? why they call themselves muslims but they are not muslims in fact??? [/qb][/QUOTE]A lot of why's, and a lot what seems to be different as you expected. Maybe it is because of the expectations that you are having problems now. What made you think Cairo should be a celan city, without a traffic problem and honking cars everywhere? The harassment is well known, so why is this a surprise for you? Didn't you visit Cairo before actually decide to live there? What made you choose for an appartment in Mohandesseen instead of a more quiet and clean area? It is like the people who buy a house in the near of an airport and then complain about the sounds of the airplanes... Living in a city, the biggest city of Africa, a city that is facing thousands of problems, brings negative and positive side-effects. When you don't want to hear honking cars, you have to look for a house far away from Cairo. When you don't want to be faced with men making sexual tainted remarks, you can A. choose for a city where you don't understand the langauage or B. go and live in a enviroment with females only. ll what you are complaining about, are simply the negative aspects of living in a city in Egypt. You will find the same in Alexandria, in the Red Sea area's, or in any other city enviroment in Egypt. A village will probably feel worse, because there you have to spend your days at home... [/qb][/QUOTE][/qb][/QUOTE]of course she visited Cairo before she moved and of course she knew about the traffic but putting up with it for a week or two is very different to living with it 24/7! Cant you see the whole point of her post is that this is NOT how she expected a MUSLIM country to be??? The same is for me and many others who choose to live here, and we cant all choose WHERE in Egypt we live, its not that simple, NOTHING here is that simple. Yes its great hearing the mosque call to prayer, yes its great having halal food and not having to ask if its halal, but its not great when you expect a certain behaviour BECAUSE this is a Muslim country and that doesnt happen. It takes a while before it comes to light in this way but I totally agree with what el ka is saying. its a disappointment that we are led to believe Muslims are clean (and their personal hygeine IS) but the rubbish in the streets shows that this does not go beyond their own hygeine. There is a total disregard for other people here. Where I am I dont have the cars honking 24/7 but I do have innumerable gas men with their spanners bashing away on the gas cans 24/7! I do have weddings whcih go on till 2am, no regard for anyone having to sleep early or being sick or ANY regard for anyone else at all here. So its not to do with moving or finding a quiet area, this is non-existant in most of Egypt. Its nothing to do with not knowing, it is a little to do with expectations but only in the way of it being a Muslim country. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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