I don t agree with this amount!
If you come for a holiday, ok, maybe you need it, but if it is really COST OF LIVING,only if you don t care about your money you could spend such a sum here!
I remember that years ago, attending an international contest for environmental projects, in a luxurious camp, a team presented us in a workshop " Methods and procedures of surviving in the mountains", not only a lecture but demonstrating and practicality how to dig around a tent, for draining water, how to light a fire in rainy weather, and so on!I listened, I practiced... At the final I told them my opinion: IF I GO FOR A VACATION, I WANT TO FEEL COMFORTABLE,NOT TO FIGHT FOR SURVIVING, so better I stay in a warm hotel, nearby the last means of communication, than doing such a thing! Some of them agreed with me, others no! I consider narrow mindedness to have possibilities, to leave a good house to try to survive somewhere without any condition for living.
After years, when I had to face some temporary situations, I was not desperate and I remember what i was taught there, I applied them and I WAS HAPPY, really happier than I could have great opportunities. Now don t think that i lived in a tent, or I dig ground, for example there i learned to pack things perfect and to choose things that i really need!
And abroad, doesn t mean at home, and it is a challenge to live in other conditions of living, not in poor way and in needs but to rent a very expensive apartment and not to fight to get it just for a cheap price, to have the feeling that you get it well, and you win a good deal, to have that satisfaction!Other way you don t fell that you live!
How many times have you travel incognito? Why a car to fight in the traffic, and to reach the job full of stress? and a driver? why not try to do a deal with a taxi driver? they could be proud that you ask them for help, and even in that buses people respect you! not daily, but it is a lesson of life to feel how is really here, and how these people live, and you ll gain POPULARITY and their LOVE! And eating in very expensive places doesn t mean that you eat well!There are clean and good places, with good prices!
I came back here, cause I feel well and Egyptians are good people, not very frustrated, friendly and they know to appreciate a kind and nice foreign!
BEHAVE NICE AND THEY WILL BE GOOD NEIGHBORS! Â
So, my opinion for the cost of living is 1500$ for a family, in very good conditions! with week ends spent outside, visits and of course, wonderful tea and good Egyptian coffee!
 ENJOY YOUR TIME HERE, IN PHARAOHS LAND!Â
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