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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dubai Girl: [QB] I have had so many experiences with people trying to take advantage when I've been in Egypt. My first ever visit I had travelled with Sam from Dubai as I was meeting his parents for the first time and I remember an airport customs man opening up Sam's bag , glancing inside and then putting his hand out for money and I was amazed and couldn't believe my eyes!! Someone in authority asking for money!! Then the toilet attendent asking me for money because she had tried to force tissue on me as I was washing my hands..then outside the airport people trying to wrestle my bags out of my hand to carry to the car and wanting money. I've never been ripped off by a taxi because I have never been anywhere on my own there but I do remember on one of our visits there we had been to see Mohammed Mounir at the Opera House and we got a taxi back to his parents and we were both sat in the back and the taxi driver kept saying something to my husband in Arabic and Sam told me to move over as our legs were touching and the taxi driver was not happy about this. So I moved right over and he still didn't like it and was complaining so Sam started shouting at him and told him to stop the cab as we were getting out and he refused to pay him. Last time we visited in January Sam left his brand new phone that he'd paid a fortune for in the back and he kept calling it until the driver answered and the driver came back with it and wouldnt accept any money that Sam was trying to give him so he just dropped it through the window in the end. The driver didnt have to bring it back he could easily have kept it.It restores your faith in people when these things happen. More recently we shipped all of our furniture from our apartment in Dubai to our apartment in Cairo, we paid 2000 USD just to send the stuff and I was warned beforehand not to send anything new or things like books or cds as they charge per item so I sent all my personal belongings to England and all the furniture to Cairo, it was just general household stuff no expensive plasma tvs or bang and olufsen stereos or anything like that and we had been assured that the customs charges would not exceed 2000 LE as the shipping company belonged to one of Sams cousins. Well in the end they charged us 12000 LE and the customs people have opened every last item and quite a few things are damaged (big scratches on the bed etc) Really we might as well have sold all of our furniture in Dubai and bought it again in Cairo for the amount of hassle and money involved. When we were considering living in Egypt for a bit earlier this year it was going to cost a ridiculous amount of money to ship our cars over from Dubai and second hand cars are way too expensive in Egypt. At one point I considered having Grace in a hospital in Cairo before we had made our decision to move to the UK and I looked into the hospital costs and I think the cheapest was 10,000 LE. A friend of mine just had her first baby in Cairo and as well as paying a fortune in hopsital costs you are obliged to give money to the nurses and the cleaners as well! I know its a poor country but I don't know how anyone can consider it cheap because it seems as expensive as anywhere else to me [/QB][/QUOTE]
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