One bit of becoming an expat, is the fact that you also need to learn not only to adopt to the country you live in, but also be adaptive and aware of cultural differences you will encounter abroad, as expat community is like a miniature world, stuck in one city. So small, that despite the fact that you all live in a capital of 4+ million people, you still feel like it is a village.
Many people will disagree with me, but dating in expat community is close to impossible. 50% of people are here with their spouses, 10% have them home and they do not hide it, 30% have their spouse at home countries and they do not ever mention them, 5% are into local opposite sex and this leaves us with 5% single population in this small, small, small expat village.
Here in Accra, that 5% of population seems to have slept with each other on their 1st year here. Latter on, it is re-runs or a new country! ;)
Since the options here are low to nothing [we have Arab population, which we all know - will lead nowhere, then we have various Asian communities, which hardly ever speak English or come in as one person at the time, and then we have Commonwealth drunken bachelors, busy watching football and playing litre-ball.], I decided to challenge myself and go for the one continent I have not yet visited - hence Latin America!
Few Spanish speaking events latter over the last few months, spot on - I find one out of possibly other 50 members of his country here in Ghana! ;) We danced, met friends, had couple of drinks, changed bars, watched the sun come up... It all went well till the day after, when we were due to have lunch together, which never happened. Three days down the line, still nothing, which means - he is out!
The question thou remains - did I do something wrong? Does it require to sleep with a guy on the 1st night to actually get a date!?
Monday 30 May 2011
Thursday 5 May 2011
Single, working girls do not live in OSU
At a recent dinner party, hosted at my home in Dzorwolu, we had a discussion with few more young expatriates, about where is best to live in Osu. And a guy, who has only been here few months, argued that Osu is THE PLACE to be, which also reflects on the rent prices in this part of the town (they are high). As someone working in the real estate in Accra, I could easily argue that it's not the case, since other areas such as Labone, Cantoments and Airport Residential beat Osu in rent prices, as majority of people choose to live outside of t he busy, central slum of Accra.
So who lives in Osu, once it's so hard to find an empty apartment and any sort of accommodation in a decent price? And what drags Expats to live in Osu, if you end up living next to a farm and are woken up by roosters [from personal experience - a friend of mine is renting a nice flat right in the heart of Osu, and no need for alarms - roosters are up and and about as early as 4am!!!] and never ending traffic on Oxford street!?
Well, I tell you, it's the single [as without their wives/gf in the country], working guys, who come here for contract up to one year or so! For anyone living in Accra beyond one year - they normally either get sick of Osu, traffic or rent prices, just cause u can get something so much better for the same price. Ofcourse it's convinietnt, as Osu is the one place in Accra that combines it all - shopping, dinning and clubbing in walking distance. And the traffic on Oxford st. is mainly caused by these lazy, single, working guys, who cant make the distance to Koala [a supermarket at the start of the Oxford St] from their serviced appartments, and have to drive there to get their can of beer of load of bread!
So where do all the single, working girls live?! Well...we have each found ourselves a value for the price in various areas of Accra, mainly 5 cedis taxi drive away from Osu. In a quite neighborhood, where we can go for a coffee with our gfs on Sunday mornings and buy own fruits on the way home, without getting out of taxi or car! :) We live in Dzorwolu, Airports, Achimota, Labone, East Legon - cause somehow we are better at planning, less lazy and...well u name it, that is who we are!
The bottom line is thou - SINGLE, WORKING girls do not live in OSU! [ps. some of them work there and party there...but that is it! ]
So who lives in Osu, once it's so hard to find an empty apartment and any sort of accommodation in a decent price? And what drags Expats to live in Osu, if you end up living next to a farm and are woken up by roosters [from personal experience - a friend of mine is renting a nice flat right in the heart of Osu, and no need for alarms - roosters are up and and about as early as 4am!!!] and never ending traffic on Oxford street!?
Well, I tell you, it's the single [as without their wives/gf in the country], working guys, who come here for contract up to one year or so! For anyone living in Accra beyond one year - they normally either get sick of Osu, traffic or rent prices, just cause u can get something so much better for the same price. Ofcourse it's convinietnt, as Osu is the one place in Accra that combines it all - shopping, dinning and clubbing in walking distance. And the traffic on Oxford st. is mainly caused by these lazy, single, working guys, who cant make the distance to Koala [a supermarket at the start of the Oxford St] from their serviced appartments, and have to drive there to get their can of beer of load of bread!
So where do all the single, working girls live?! Well...we have each found ourselves a value for the price in various areas of Accra, mainly 5 cedis taxi drive away from Osu. In a quite neighborhood, where we can go for a coffee with our gfs on Sunday mornings and buy own fruits on the way home, without getting out of taxi or car! :) We live in Dzorwolu, Airports, Achimota, Labone, East Legon - cause somehow we are better at planning, less lazy and...well u name it, that is who we are!
The bottom line is thou - SINGLE, WORKING girls do not live in OSU! [ps. some of them work there and party there...but that is it! ]
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