Beirut - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

bad attitudes, and separation of work and personal life - Aug 2024


I would leave behind pets. It would kill me to have to make the hard decisions that would come with another evacuation here. - Oct 2020


Sense of enjoyment for life. - May 2019


Kids. - Jul 2016


Thoughts of exploring an amazing country, and hopes for professional development as you will be so overwhelmed with your daily workload that you will not have time or energy for other activities. - Nov 2014


Tourist spirit - you will be a prisoner, not a tourist if you are posted at the U.S. Embassy here. - Apr 2014


Heavy winter clothes. - Sep 2010


Preconceptions about the Arab world. Lebanon is a hybrid composed of everyone from conservative Muslims to the most Francophile Christians, and everything in between. As a result, it's culturally integrated into both the Arab and Western worlds. There's a reason every Gulf Arab wants to buy a summer house here. - Jul 2010


maps -- if you are with the embassy you will always have a driver. - Jun 2009


Car. - Jun 2008


Car. - Mar 2008


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