Freetown - Post Report Question and Answers

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

I would have brought a car. - Jan 2022


How bad the rainy season could really get. - Sep 2021


That I shouldn't and how difficult the culture can be to take at times. That when you try to make friends with locals, it feels like they just want money, a visa hookup or some other favor. - May 2018


That there is almost no infrastructure, it is a totally cash economy (bring bills to change!), how depressing the culture can be, how depressing the poverty can be, not being able to go for walks or go to any nice urban center like most country capitals have. No theaters, no art museums, etc. - Sep 2017


I knew what I was getting into. - Jun 2014


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