Cost of renting a house/room in Mogadishu?

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;934245 wrote:

Safety in Mogadishu and Hargeisa is night and day. The latter, I was able to to lurk around town 3 am (walking), while in Xamar, I was scolded on the daily for returning past maghrib (driving)

Hmm. I'm just trying to gauge the level of normalcy and safety there these days before I decide to go (I was thinking about visiting sometime in 2014). Sounds like it's still too soon for what I'm comfortable with, though.

[Wadani]

Safferz;934264 wrote:

Hmm. I'm just trying to gauge the level of normalcy and safety there these days before I decide to go (I was thinking about visiting sometime in 2014). Sounds like it's still too soon for what I'm comfortable with, though.

When u say there u mean moqadishu right?

[Juxa]

Well in Mogadishu apart from one night I did not venture out. Being a woman also limits your movement. The one night I travelled through tarabuunka in a car that switched off its lights every 10 minutes hade yaasiinka boobsiis baad isku saari

 

The xaafaxo I went were relatively safe. No one cares qofkaad tahay.

 

As for hargeysa habeenkii baad guureyn. Very dumar-friendly and entertaining folks

[Safferz]

Wadani;934265 wrote:

When u say there u mean moqadishu right?

Yep. I've been to Hargeisa recently.

[Alpha Blondy]

this thread reeks of out-touch opinions. its a shame, really.

[Safferz]

^^ care to elaborate?

[Alpha Blondy]

yeah..... basically, i was saying that people shouldn't be speculating and stuff, inaar. just because you spent a summer holiday there, you can't really be talking like an expert, ya dig?

[Taleexi]

There is real estate bubble in Mogadishu. Don't invest as of yet when security improves prices will go down.

[Safferz]

Alpha Blondy;934286 wrote:

yeah..... basically, i was saying that people shouldn't be speculating and stuff, inaar. just because you spent a summer holiday there, you can't really be talking like an expert, ya dig?

That's true, but you can also observe a lot in a few weeks or months in a different place. I'll also go as far as saying people who live back home can sometimes have a distorted sense of safety and normalcy (because certain conditions/realities have become a new normal, in a way), which is why I'm interested in the perspectives of visitors. I have relatives in more unstable areas who will tell you everything is fine and urge you to visit, when it really isn't.

[aero]

Thankfully my mother bought spaces, one of which is under construction. I wonder how much she'd rent those out for lol. I'm afraid to ask.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

aero;934301 wrote:

Thankfully my mother bought spaces, one of which is under construction. I wonder how much she'd rent those out for lol. I'm afraid to ask.

does that burn you?

[aero]

SomaliPhilosopher;934303 wrote:

does that burn you?

Like fire...burned

[Wadani]

Safferz;934291 wrote:

That's true, but you can also observe a lot in a few weeks or months in a different place. I'll also go as far as saying people who live back home can sometimes have a distorted sense of safety and normalcy (because certain conditions/realities have become a new normal, in a way), which is why I'm interested in the perspectives of visitors. I have relatives in more unstable areas who will tell you everything is fine and urge you to visit, when it really isn't.

I wouldnt say their sense of safety and normalcy is distorted, because its perfectly calibrated with the conditions they find themselves in. They just have a different standard against which they judge safety/normalcy.

[Safferz]

Wadani;934306 wrote:

I wouldnt say their sense of safety and normalcy is distorted, because its perfectly calibrated with the conditions they find themselves in. They just have a different standard against which they judge safety/normalcy.

Is there not a line we can draw for acceptably safe and unsafe conditions, rather than see it as relative? I agree with you that their sense of safety and normalcy is calibrated with their conditions, that's what I was getting at -- new ideas of "normal" and "safe" emerge in conflict and post-conflict contexts, when the reality may be that human security is still precarious.

[Tallaabo]

Chimera;934179 wrote:

Huh? Why I would I need to visit the IDP camps when the Federal Government is already working on this situation as we speak? I am neither a millionaire, nor do I have the necessary real-estate connections to provide the IDPs with a home. What purpose would my visit there serve?

I'm already well aware of the grinding poverty, I wouldn't have to send a cut of my own money back every month if this wasn't the case.

I don't get this "be prepared for hell" sentiment some of you are projecting, as if I would go there thinking I'm in Monaco.

 

 

 

As a baby.

May God bless your heart and soul.