How do you live outside Lebanon?

[Mar1K]

Hi all, first thank you for the thread. last week i finished all my papers, my wife took care of my bond (kafeleh) and now am waiting the australian embassy call just to get my visa. it wont be long and am leaving lebanon for quite a while. i heard that sydney is an amazing place to live at.

anyone can help me with sydney's lifestyle ? stuff to avoid ? ppl to avoid and more !

Thank you

[dodzi]

Originally Posted by Mar1K

anyone can help me with sydney's lifestyle ? stuff to avoid ? ppl to avoid and more !

Thank you

Avoid sharks, sunburns, and ozzies!

[Claudia]

Originally Posted by Lebanese_a

Is question is for all the people that live outside Lebanon:
How do you live outside Lebanon? Do you follow the Lebanese way of life or the way of life of the country where you are in? For example do you move in with your girlfriend before marriage?... (every aspect of the way of life - not the food and the music)

I live in Italy and I am very happy here although I dream to come back to Lebanon and live and work in my beloved country.
I was born in Lebanon and I came to Italy when I was still a baby.
Italian and Lebanese people are much alike, they have the same joy and loyalty to the Friends. And both People are very devoted to the Family. My family didn't notice huge differences when they arrived here(except the language, of course).

Most of my friends are Italian and I go out with them many times. I like to talk with them about Lebanon and some of the guys like Lebanese sayings like "Yalla!", "mabrouk" etc. Some times I call them "mastool! haha!

My Best friend is a Lebanese. We are friends since ever and she is the friend I most trust! We are like sisters. Our families are very close, and we dinner all together often. Together with my sisters I am an active members in some Lebanese-Italian cultural organization, where we meet several Lebanese who live here.

I can say I follow the Lebanese and the Italian way of life and I live both in perfect Harmony. Lebanon is my country and where my heart is but I will always love Italy with all my soul, I would combat for Italy if it was needed because this country gave me everything. Italy gave me a secure life, many friends, a wonderful sense of fashion and I gave me my Love. My family is Maronites except me and my older sister, we are Roman Catholics. Most Italians are roman catholics as you may know. This society is pretty conservative in what concerns to marriage and divorce, and I like to live in a country like this. Girls leave home to marry with their men, they don't move to live together (at least most of them). Abortions, divorce, euthanasia are not well seeing here, and politics is just a disaster!

Italian people is very extrovert, jolly and Romantic. Men adore to talk with foreign women... and foreign women just love to listen to their conversation... don't know what they are saying though.

[Libnan Ot3et Sama]

c'est un sujet interessant, je vis en france depuis 16 ans maintenant, j'ai toujours eu l'espoir depuis que je suis venue en France de retrouner vivre un jour au Liban, j'ai été éduqué à toujours aimer mon pays avec tous ses problemes, Meme si j 'ai grandi en France et j'y ai vecu la plupart de ma vie, je reste tres attachée a mes racines... Je pense que tout depend de l'education que l'on a eu,,
je n'aimerai pas rester toute ma vie en france meme s'il ya un lien aec notre pays, mais il n'y a pas de vie sociale ici, tous les libanais que j'ai rencontré et qui sont venus pour les études n'ont pas vraiment aimé leur séjour parceque c'est vrai que chacun quittait son cocon familial ou la maman fait tout et on a toujours de la compagnie alors qu'ici ils devaient se debrouiller seul sans l'aide de personne,
Ce qu' j'aime ici, c'est la tranquilité, personne ne te juge, tu vis comme bon il te semble et tu ne te prends pas la tete, tu apprends a etre tolérant, accepter l'autre en tant que tel... ce qui est vraiment different du Liban..
ce que je regrette , c'est de ne pas avoir passé mon enfance et mon adolscence au Liban, c'est vraiment une periode difficile que de les passer en France puisque ce sont ces moments qui nous guident vers notre identité, je ne cache pas que la mienne n'est pas claire, quand je rentre au pays, je sens qu'il ya des differends par la facon de penser, c'est peut etre parceque je vis dans un village aussi, et en meme temps quand je reviens en France, je me sens bien mais il ya toujours le pincement au coeur avec l'espoir d'y retourner dans les plus bref delais..

[lebanesekid]

In Canada, it is not a requirement to assimilate yourself into Canadian society, unlike the United States. If someone asks me what nationality I ma, i tell them Lebanese-Canadian, even though I was born in Canada.

However, there is a huge difference in the way i live, and in the way that a person in Lebanon lives. Work is a huge part of Canadian society, so families usually do not have too much time to spend with eachother. I do not stay up until 4 a.m. in the morning everyday, playing cards and smoking sheesha, as i am always tired from school/work. I cannot take a nap during the day, as i always have something else to do. I do, however, go to my Lebanese mosque, that holds tons of events like a lebanese indpendence day picnic, and eid il tahrir, and meet other Lebanese people.

I love both Canada and Lebanon, however. Would i want to go and live in Lebanon? For most of my life, I did, but after the events that have occurred in lebanon in the past 2 years, all that has changed. I love the kindness you get from people in Lebanon, but i hate the invisible barriers. Unlike in Canada, where all races live together, Lebanon is like 4 countries in one, with Druze, Sunnis, Shias, and Chrisitians all seperated. Our politicians our corrupting our nations, but all i could do is wish that everything will change, and that one day, my wish of iving in Lebanonw ill come back:D