People there can't travel from city to city by car, because the police will stop you and will definitely complicate things for you. You gotta be super careful with travelling like this especially by night, as you have a chance of getting robbed or worse. Many people are moving to other parts of the country which is bad too. The wars take much away from the already poor economy, and the North regions are dangerous.
I will only warn you. Ghana is very addictive, once you visit and taste the food and meet the people u won’t be the same again. It could be the sun as well. Just make sure you do not take photos of children and the slums (every country has it).
We have incredibly high quality of meat (tempted for joke here). Many Namibians that go to Europe go vegetarian because getting the same quality of meat is just too expensive there, and we do not like eating lower quality.
I'll admit i love steak more than the average person, we've got relatively high quality meat here in Norway (at least compared to the rest of Europe) but it's also very expensive. A small steak at a restaurant will usually cost over 400kr (650 Namibian dollars) while buying raw meat from a store is usually 500-600kr (800-1000 Namibian dollars) per kilogram for the regular supermarket stuff.
So here a steak dinner in a restaurant will be about 250 to 300 dollars and it's obviously cheaper in the grocery store while our smartphones can cost over 10 000 Namibian dollars (iPhones). Some people here are not high earning but still eat steak pretty often
Oh the more expensive phones can easily cost that much here too, i think the highest end Samsungs cost around 35000 Namibian Dollars. Which is just insane to me. But we do have cheaper ones as well and it's not uncommon for people to buy phones for less than 2000 dollars
Doing almost anything take 10x to long to get done. Moving money in and out of the country is way to difficult, the government changed regulations seemingly monthly and it was just to hard yo do honest business. Its hard to export things too for what ever reason it just became to burdensom especially post covid
Interesting, i have heard that eastern Africa is a hotspot for importing/exporting with east Asia and that there's good economic relations between them. Have i got that wrong or does personal finance just have more restrictions?
I don't think everyone knows this, but every last Saturday of the month, Rwandans gather together for "umuganda". Similar to the word "dugnad" in norsk.
The sense of community and hospitality. I mean, one thing i appreciate is that i don't gotta worry about where to sleep or where to eat, am not going to be so naive and say everyone has this, but its strong here.
I applaud you for trying to achieve your goals/new years resolution! The world has so many things to offer. So I live in addis the Capital city of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a wonderful country, with wonderful people and food that follow! We have many unique things like any other place in the world, from our many languages, food, way we count time, our culture and warm hospitality!
Thank you for the comment! I expected Ethiopia to be a lot hotter than that, but those temperatures make sense considering it's where humans evolved from. 18-30 degrees is exactly the range most people would feel comfortable being naked in haha. Just an observation
As to Ethiopia there's numberless new things to tell to a foreigner but I'll inform him/her first thing to note is the time counting/clocks is entirely different from what he/she would get all across the world. Ethiopia starts counting the hour when the day/light breaks. So you need to be careful when you take appointments with people. There are multitudes of things to explore as Ethiopia is unique in many ways of life and geographically.
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I'm sorry to hear about the wars. How much do they affect people's daily lives there?
People there can't travel from city to city by car, because the police will stop you and will definitely complicate things for you. You gotta be super careful with travelling like this especially by night, as you have a chance of getting robbed or worse. Many people are moving to other parts of the country which is bad too. The wars take much away from the already poor economy, and the North regions are dangerous.
Sorry to hear that, but interesting nonetheless. Hope things get better for you, and stay safe!
I will only warn you. Ghana is very addictive, once you visit and taste the food and meet the people u won’t be the same again. It could be the sun as well. Just make sure you do not take photos of children and the slums (every country has it).
Why shouldn't you take pictures of the slums?
we don't have a president.
I take it you don't have a monarchy either?
We have incredibly high quality of meat (tempted for joke here). Many Namibians that go to Europe go vegetarian because getting the same quality of meat is just too expensive there, and we do not like eating lower quality.
I'll admit i love steak more than the average person, we've got relatively high quality meat here in Norway (at least compared to the rest of Europe) but it's also very expensive. A small steak at a restaurant will usually cost over 400kr (650 Namibian dollars) while buying raw meat from a store is usually 500-600kr (800-1000 Namibian dollars) per kilogram for the regular supermarket stuff.
So here a steak dinner in a restaurant will be about 250 to 300 dollars and it's obviously cheaper in the grocery store while our smartphones can cost over 10 000 Namibian dollars (iPhones). Some people here are not high earning but still eat steak pretty often
Oh the more expensive phones can easily cost that much here too, i think the highest end Samsungs cost around 35000 Namibian Dollars. Which is just insane to me. But we do have cheaper ones as well and it's not uncommon for people to buy phones for less than 2000 dollars
Zambian here...👋🏿 I'm a born and bred Zambian but making my contribution as objectively as possible. In the event that bias is detected, I digress.
Thanks for the summary! I wish we had beer for $1 here haha
Doing almost anything take 10x to long to get done. Moving money in and out of the country is way to difficult, the government changed regulations seemingly monthly and it was just to hard yo do honest business. Its hard to export things too for what ever reason it just became to burdensom especially post covid
Interesting, i have heard that eastern Africa is a hotspot for importing/exporting with east Asia and that there's good economic relations between them. Have i got that wrong or does personal finance just have more restrictions?
Theres a ton of asian trade for sure. No you have that correct. Idk on personal finance mine was all corperate transactions.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing
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Does that include lunch break? Haha
I feel like most foreigners that come here probably know all of that, especially the drummers tradition.
To a degree, but it's always fun to rediscover those kinds of things from a local's perspective!
we got some real nice fish. Probably some of the best in the world.
That's interesting to hear from a mostly landlocked country. I'm guessing freshwater fish?
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Thanks for sharing! Definitely looks like a place worth visiting. Do you have any lion repellent spray? Haha
I don't think everyone knows this, but every last Saturday of the month, Rwandans gather together for "umuganda". Similar to the word "dugnad" in norsk.
Sounds neat! We're lazy enough to only do that once a year haha. Once a month sounds great for something like that
The sense of community and hospitality. I mean, one thing i appreciate is that i don't gotta worry about where to sleep or where to eat, am not going to be so naive and say everyone has this, but its strong here.
I honestly didn't know camel milk was a thing, good to know! Is it as processed as cow's milk? Or rawer?
I applaud you for trying to achieve your goals/new years resolution! The world has so many things to offer. So I live in addis the Capital city of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a wonderful country, with wonderful people and food that follow! We have many unique things like any other place in the world, from our many languages, food, way we count time, our culture and warm hospitality!
Thank you for the comment! I expected Ethiopia to be a lot hotter than that, but those temperatures make sense considering it's where humans evolved from. 18-30 degrees is exactly the range most people would feel comfortable being naked in haha. Just an observation
As to Ethiopia there's numberless new things to tell to a foreigner but I'll inform him/her first thing to note is the time counting/clocks is entirely different from what he/she would get all across the world. Ethiopia starts counting the hour when the day/light breaks. So you need to be careful when you take appointments with people. There are multitudes of things to explore as Ethiopia is unique in many ways of life and geographically.
Interesting. And with you being so close to the equator, i assume the sun rises up at the same time every day through the year?