Debowing

After I was not successful with my applications for work in Thailand, UAE I am accepting with a heavy heart an appointment in Libya.

Anyone in libya, please let me know, I have some questions regarding the life there.

Saff_Parker

Wow that's quite a move. I'm afraid I don't have any first hand experience but a friend of mine spent a year there (during the trouble and the capture of Gaddafi) and said it was dangerous at the time of course but also that the locals were incredibly lovely and helpful.

Millhouse

I'll probably go there this year... if I do, I'll let you take me out for a beer.

weasel decentral

Some of the people of Libya are wishing Ghaddafi could come back (and not just his relatives) that should be a good indicator of how things are

phil squares

Spent about 18 months living in Tripoli. Managed to get out just as things were kicking off there. It is a very interesting place to say the least It has the poteintial to be better than Dubai and other places in the ME. Great weather, cools down at night during the warmest part of the year.

However, the years of embargo has taken it's toll on the city. The people are great. Limited availability of western goods. No alcohol at all. All in all, pretty boring place to live.

I would be very hesitant to go there now as Tripoli is not under any one single police force but certain sections of Tripoli are controlled by certain groups.

Debowing

I don't know where I would be working but it looks like it would be at some god forsaken oil base somewhere in the sahara, but doing construction stuff...It is camp life...I just hope there won't be any terrorists...

I plan to take some electronic gadgets with me, like a TV, a satellite receiver, my lap top, a portable oscilloscope and a waveform generator (my hobby is electronics) - Something to kill time in the long nights in the camp. Do they confiscate stuff like that at the airport?

kittycat1

Camp life?
In the U.K., camp is an adjective, often associated with a stereotypical view of feminine gay men. The term has been in common use for many decades. Gay comedian Kenneth Williams wrote in a diary entry for 1 January 1947: "Went to Singapore with Stan - very camp evening, was followed, but tatty types so didn't bother to make overtures."[15] Although it applies to gay men, it is a specific adjective used to describe a man that openly promotes the fact that he is gay by being outwardly garish or eccentric, for example, the character Daffyd Thomas in the English comedy skit show Little Britain. "Camp" forms a strong element in U.K. culture, and many so-called gay-icons and objects are chosen as such because they are camp. People like Kylie Minogue, John Inman, Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen, Lulu, Graham Norton, Mika, Lesley Joseph, Ruby Wax, Dale Winton, Cilla Black, and the music hall tradition of the pantomime are camp elements in popular culture.[citation needed] [16] courtesy of Wiki

hong_konger

You should be fine on a Camp. Do you have a good leave rota schedule ? Oh and good luck at customs with all that kit. You might want to get it sent to you via your company if that possible.

gottheTshirt

You will need to go to Tunisia to take anyone out for a beer !

scot47

FCO has today (24 January '13) issued warnings that British Nationals should leave Benghazi because of real threats to their security.

Debowing

I will investigate that...
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Debowing

I have heard of the term camp too,

What I mean in this context is different. Camp in my company means prefab houses (we call them muvahomes) and catering is in a Mess...There is European Mess, Indian Mess, etc...That is what I meant by camp life, nothing to do with homosexuality.

Debowing

I will probably take you out for a diet coke, but I may by then have mastered the home brewing art so I can offer you something stronger at my residence...

scot47

"Camp" here just means a compound in the boondocks, often in the desert.

The word existed before Kenneth Williams and his Polari-speakers stole it, justr as the word "gay" used to have a different meaning.

kittycat1

I did actually get what camp life meant- thought I was being funny but apparently failed yet again- I'll get my coat