Dilemma of Next Job

Originally posted by asromacalcio
Where would you go if offered work in both Cairo and Moscow and why?

I don't know about Moscow but I lived in the middle east for three years working in Jerusalem at Intel and visited Cairo on vacation. One problem is the presence of muslim extremists who try to kill foreigners. When we took a bus across the desert on the way to Cairo, the police provided an armed escort car which followed us almost all the way. There is a lot of danger and now with that assshole bushwhacker in Iraq, it might even be more dangerous than when I lived there. On the other hand, 5-6000 and more years of history, wow, I thought it worth the risk, we lived near the old city of Jerusalem and everywhere you looked you could see stuff thousands of years old. There was the Katheryn Kenyan digs at Jerico, uncovering the 9000 year old watchtower, and the Cairo Museum is one of the most fascinating museums on earth, bar none! I wandered that place for two days and barely scratched the surface, saw stuff that was mind boggling, like this model aircraft that looked like what you might imagine an amish farmer might carve for his kid, it had a swept back smooth bird like body with a bird's head but the wings! They were like modern aircraft wings, with tail, rudder, front wings. It looked like it would glide if you launched it and it was colored blue, very fresh looking but 3000 years old. I was interested in uncovering the board games of the day and found one where they had a three by eight board with pieces that moved around with tactics and strategy, not sure the rules but it was clearly depicted in carvings and parchment.
Then almost everywhere you drive in Egypt, you find ancient statuary, like we found this huge statue of Ramses II in a little town quite a ways from Cairo proper. And then of course there are the pyramids. I stopped to peer amid the pyramids for sure!🙂 One thing I saw was how close the things are to downtown Cairo, we stayed in a first rate hotel where you could see the pyramids from the window, they were less than a mile away. You see all the photo's of them and it looks like they are in the middle of an isolated desert which is what they want you to think, but they are almost downtown! The traffic is something to behold, total chaos, but very few accidents considering the incredible numbers of kinds of vehicles, bikes, trikes, donkey driven carts, cabs, police, regular cars, trucks, pedestrians, all going in what looks like ten differant directions at once but they are more or less polite, everyone gets there way eventually, unlike Jerusalem where they have the rudest drivers on the planet I think. There, if you wait more than the standard 100 milliseconds at a red light turning green, you get a chorus of honks. They park on the sidewalk because the streets are so narrow, but I would not give up the trip of a lifetime and have been back several times and hope to go back again. Then there was Thailand.....but thats another story.

Originally posted by st00p1dfac3
and Americans wonder why discussions like this - Thread 67271 - continue in the rest of the world... 😞

relax dude i was just kidding....a poke of fun at thinking a couple of decades ago...im sorry you misunderstood my sarcasm

Originally posted by asromacalcio
Well I was offered both and have accepted both, Cairo for July and August, and Moscow from late September. Although I reiterate, it's outside Moscow in a small grey boring town. I get a free flat and $1000 pcm, more than enough!

Well short term is another story, you wouldn't even have time to visit much, just a few whirlwind tours to the pyramids in Cairo, maybe a one day visit to the museum, which I HIGHLY recomend.