Accra - Post Report Question and Answers

What do you wish you had known about this particular city/country before moving there?

We expected all the nonsense but were surprised it wasn't a money saving post. - Aug 2024


That the slave castles are reserved for tourists. It’s a history many locals do not talk about in the same way Americans do. My local Ghanaian colleagues have never been. - Sep 2023


Get a car. There are few sidewalks in the city which makes walking difficult. - Nov 2022


How expensive it is and how much poverty is here. - Mar 2022


Heat is really tough to deal with. Amount of trash at beaches and everywhere else. - Nov 2019


I wasn't prepared for how much the lack of changing seasons would throw me off, but I don't know how one can prepare for that. - May 2019


How little there would be to do on the weekends and how expensive/difficult it was to fly out of Ghana to other places of interest, even Europe. - Apr 2018


How polluted it is and how much litter there is on the side of the road. - Aug 2017


Just how hot and humid it would be every day. How every conversation with a local will likely end up with an argument. That is exhausting. - Apr 2017


Everyone wants something from you and the begging becomes a bit much. Driving here is awful and the traffic makes you go insane. - May 2014


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