Potential Expat with questions

Hello Evvie.

Welcome to Expat.com!

I hope you will soon have some informations from other members.

Aurélie

Thanks Aurélie! Good to be here

hello Evvie and welcome to Expat.com

it seems the heavens have answered my prayers as I\ve been contemplating planning a holiday in Greece, so a little trade of info would be marvelous if ur up for it my advice is always free.

so here goes:

Egaila is not as far as u think from all the happening expat areas, those being Fintas, Mangaf, Mahboula etc. ur roughly within the proximity of al Kout mall, which if u check the meetup.com group, is a regular watering hole for their outings.

egaila itself is very quaint, and yes it does have lodging for expats; the rent might be average on account that it is a new area in development (i think, i only went there once to meet an old school friend i hadnt seen in 11 years) or it might be expensive on account that the buildings are still newish and taht it is a Kuwaiti residential area, hence most flats are villas/condominiums.

as for safety, like i said, the area was quite big and rather deserted, caution should be exercised regardless due to those conditions. I have not read in the news about any abductions in Egaila, gauging the distance etc walking can be ok. although, i really doubt ud wish to walk to school on a summer day, unless said school provides shower facilities!

transport wise, you would have to rely on taxi's, unfortunately buses as public transport are predominantly male dominated, u'd feel out of place trapped in a tube with strange men oggling you (no offence guys, its the god honest truth).

best option is to try to contact teachers already at said school, see where they live, whether they need flatmates etc. and check how they commute to work and where they live.

ur peers are the best place to start

hope taht helped, i'll only start asking u questions bout Greece once ur satisfied with the info on Kuwait

legacy - so honoured to have your reply!

Thanks for the information - it was indeed pretty helpful. I gathered I'd rely on taxi's from other posts. I assume there are people using them as "personal" drivers. It will be hard getting used to that since Greece has a rather dependable bus system and everyone uses it (your first piece of Greek info). I have no idea about Kuwait - never been - but from what other people have said, I would really like to live in salmiya or salwa, close to westerners. We'll see...

Of course, anything you want to ask about visiting, I'll do my best