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Baghdad, Iraq
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
East coast. From the Embassy in Baghdad, it was a several-day slog home, involving a planes/trains/automobiles kind of transportation model (specifically, a bus to a helicopter to a propellor plane to a series of commercial...
Are credit cards widely accepted and safe to use locally? Are ATMs common and do you recommend using them? Are they safe to use?
You only use dollars on compound, or those fake funny paper coins that are a holdover from the DOD days.

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