Posted By
Najib
Aug 16, 2011 11:39
I was just saying in my previous post that the government should not be proud of having one of the the highest cost of living in the region, and then I read this. More than 90% of Lebanese cannot afford an apartment in Beirut nowadays, and are running away from Beirut and its surroundings because of the real estate prices leaving our capital to Arabs and foreigners. Our country is for sale and we think…
Posted By
Najib
Aug 16, 2011 10:01
According to the cost of living survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Beirut ranked as the 75th most expensive city worldwide in 2011, out of 214 cities included in the survey, while it ranked 80th last year. Beirut ranked 3rd most expensive across 18 surveyed MENA cities, while it ranked in 4th position last year. I truly hope our government doesn't take this ranking as a compliment as such a high cost of living, with…
Food
15 years ago
According to this article, it costs nowadays 7$ to prepare a Fattoush salad, which is equivalent to almost 200$ monthly. That’s just crazy, specially during Ramadan where Fattoush is a must-have dish on every Iftar! ...
Information
15 years ago
How about you put an end to smses reaching us from 4 digit numbers giving away people’s personal information for 0.89$? The ones I still have saved are 1060, 1054 and 1335. ...
Information
15 years ago
Looks like Kataeb.org are getting inspired from our readers’ comments. ...
Humor
15 years ago
I’ve given it some thought and the “financial and personal dispute” argument presented by the ministry of interior to justify yesterday’s blast could be plausible. Why is that so? Four possible scenarios. Note: I will ...
Information
15 years ago
(Standard & Poor’s ratings per country) To have an idea on where we stand, other governments rated B by Standard & Poor’s include Argentina, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Honduras. When compared to the Arab ...
Information
15 years ago
Pretty shocking pictures coming from a European capital. Check out more pics [Here] & [Here]. I am guessing more “Looks like Beirut” comments are coming Jad Aoun’s way. ...
Advertising
15 years ago
Lebanon has a new online mall, [Mizalla.com]. I am not sure who are the people behind them but Mustapha seems to know them and trust them. I can see one of Lebanon’s top banks, Bank ...
Automotive
15 years ago
I am loving the “Cheyef 7alak” campaign by LBCI but someone should be monitoring their Facebook page [Cheyef7alak]. There are many pictures that are unrelated; funny nevertheless. I compiled some of them before they delete ...
