50 Things I Hate & Love about Egypt

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I love this country, and i can never imagine living anywhere else in the world, it would really be so difficult for me.
Having some bad things that i don’t like is a different story, we don’t live in a Utopia.

The list below will include 50 things i Hate about Egypt and another 50 Things i Love about Egypt, i will update it Daily

Please comment below if you have ideas\suggestions on what to be added\edited on the list.

1. Driving at 3:00am from Lebanon Square to Nasr City in less than 15mins
   Driving at 3:00pm from Lebanon Square to Nasr City in more than 2 hours.
2. Cairo at night
   Cairo after noon
3. Kids, teenagers and sometimes mens harassing girls in the streets thinking it’s *Funny*
   Other people beating the crap out of them for harassing the girls
4. Delicious food (Molokheya, mesa2a3a, ro2a2, fattah, bamya )
   People defacing ads, writing on walls and engraving trees with their names (e.g. zle7′a te7eb 3ashour)
5. People staring at you from other cars
   Old buildings in down town, zamalek, masr el gedida and Baron Castle
6. Bedouin people, how simple their life is
   Bedouin people, how the government treat them
7. Military police soldiers standing everywhere doing nothing, 24 hours, 7 days a week (any ideas what they are supposed to do)
   How people can change(mod) everything to suit their needs (remember el motocyle el Jawa and how the attached a huge box at the end for transportation? Sharing a 256Kbps DSL with 10 neighbors)
8. Someone giving misleading directions,just so he doesn’t say “I don’t know”
   Someone taking you to the place you asked for, though it’s not in his direction
9. Streets of Cairo!
   The Corniche of Alex, and Ein Sukhna road (i did 200KMpH on this one )
10. Someone spending a fortune on a cellphone with a camera while he can barely afford to eat
    The huge number of people gathered around “3arabeyet el foul” having breakfast in the morning
11. City Stars (za7ma beta7′alof)
    City Stars (it’s very elegant)
12. Schools and education
    Sweeeeeeeets!!!! konafa & basbousa bel eshtaaaa, lo2met el 2ady (zalabya) and Zeinab’s Fingers :p !! yummy
13. The huge number of people gathered around “3arabeyet el foul” having breakfast in the morning
    Blocking traffic for hours when someone *important* is passing
14. Buildings in Zamalek, some areas of Downtown, Korba and Roxy
    Ugly Buildings everywhere else
15. Fresh baladi bread
    Parking
16. Linking every occasion with food (sham nessim renga w fesi7′, 3id kebir la7ma, 3id so3′ayar ka7k, mouled el naby sweets, etc)
    people who guide you for parking (menady)
17. How happy people be when they win anything (even if it’s useless) and when they appear on TV
    people blocking the streets to reserve their own private parking spots
18. You can be friends with most of people working\living in your street\area
    Finishing any government related papers
19. They would stand by you at anytime (khena2a, sawa2 taxi rekhem, 7ad 3akes okhtak) even if they barely know you (and maybe just saw you once or twice in the area before)
    People saying “kol sana wenta tayeb”, while there is no *obvious* occasion (other than sucking your money)
20. No one throw anything EVER!!! Anything could be fixed
    Beggars (wenaby ya beh, ba2aly talat senen makaltesh)
21. How clean everything can be in minutes when someone *important* is coming
    How fast it goes to waste after he’s gone
22. That guy around the corner selling news paper at 4:00am in the street
    People interpreting religion in ways serving their own agenda, AND SPREADING IT!
23. Coffe shops and Shisha places (imagine the number! it’s a Shisha for every Egyptian )
    Stupid TV shows (Local TV channels, ANYTIME)
24. Nile Fm! (These guys are hilarious)
    Stupid radio shows (ezayak ya 2ousama?)
25. Sinai (Dahab, Taba, Sharm and all the other great places out there)
    People crossing the streets randomly without looking
26. Felouka ride at night or at sunset
    People throwing garbage from their cars
27. How friendly people are on the streets
    People throwing garbage everywhere in the city
28. You are able to walk safely in *almost* anywhere in the city at anytime of the day
    Pollution
29. 24 hours food shops
    Public transportation
30. You can find a place to hangout at anytime (even 5:00am)
    You can never find a queue
31. You will find people in the streets and in cars at anytime of the day
    If there is a queue, there must be people trying to pass it
32. Walking in Masr el Gedida (Korba specially)
    Cars\buses blowing dust and smoke in your face\window
33. Old buildings in down town, zamalek, masr el gedida and Baron Castle
    Officers (fel legan and kamayen – لجنة و كمين) harassing you to get a bribe
34. Breakfast time in Ramadan
    Ugly buildings (what was they thinking when they painted the building in FUSHIA)
35. How good people try to behave in Ramadan
    All the stupid TV shows and series in Ramadan
36. Family reunions in Ramadan (visits, breakfast together, praying together etc)
    Work in Ramadan (lazy, sleeping and nothing gets done)
37. Actually believing that “Masr om El Donya – مصر أم الدنيا”
    How bad they behave just right after Ramadan ends (el wa2fa, for all of you guys, you know what i mean )
38. The taxi driver who stick with you and help you as much as he can until you reach your destination, though none of you know the exact address
    The taxi driver who tries to take a longer way to make you pay more if he senses you don’t know the way
39. Sharing a 256Kbps DSL with 10 neighbors)
    Calling an ambulance or police (according to someone i heard, KFC home delivery responds faster, so next time you need help, call KFC)
40. El mokattam, kobry el matar, el da2ery
    Smelly people (does soap and shower trigger anything in your mind?)
41. Kiosks around every corner (net2abel 3and el koshk)
    Military police soldiers standing everywhere doing nothing, 24 hours, 7 days a week (any ideas what they are supposed to do)
42. How every generation think their older days was better (I think that, my parents think that and my grand parents have the same feeling – ayam makan kilo el la7ma be 5 ta3reefa)
    Advertising (Cream 7amada le toul w nemou el sha3r. El cream el 3ageeb lel regal fakat. الجهاز السحرى للتخسيس……مكرونة بيانكو)
43. Bazilique church (not sure of the spelling, Basilica?) كنيسة البازيليك
    Harassing tourists at the pyramids (and everywhere)
44. Old cairo, citadel, Amr Ibn El Aas, Kenisa mo3alaka and this area
    Mimicking(copy cat) western culture (gangasta stlye,wazzup d000d!RNB! and many other things)
45. بياعين الفل فى الإشارات(i buy *LOTS*these whenever i see them!)
    You have to bargain(تفاصل) when buying anything or service (مشيها ب15)

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