Ninajifunza kiswahili pole pole :)
(Your question did go over my head, but it did allow me to learn many new words :) Asante sana!)
My wife and I chose Tanzania for various reasons, including:
- We knew Moshi from some years ago (we climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro), and have sentimental attachment to the place (I asked my wife on Uhuru peak).
- We knew our son (1 year old) would be safe (good medical care, few mosquitoes and nasty animals, varied food). He made friends with our neighbourhood kids pretty fast :)
- She had some connections with a local NGO and so could work as a volunteer here.
- We remembered Tanzanians to be the most welcoming and friendly people we've ever met (and we had the chance to travel a lot). We were wrong BTW, Tanzanians are even more welcoming than we remembered :)
- Kiswahili is a challenge to learn, but we like learning new languages (we take lessons bi-weekly)
- It's much more attractive than most places for our family to visit during their vacation ;)
- I always echoed Mark Shuttleworth's sentiment that "Africa is the future", and I decided to put my actions where my mouth is :p
I could go on for a long time, we really like it here.
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Dar Es Salaam. I noticed in your other comment you said you moved to Tanzania recently, how is your Swahili :-)
Let see if you can derive meaning from the following swahili question.
Kati ya nchi zote ulizokuwa na uwezo wa kuhamia,kwanini uliichagua Tanzania?
If the above went over your head,i asked, "of all the countries you could have migrated to,why did you pick Tanzania?"
Ninajifunza kiswahili pole pole :) (Your question did go over my head, but it did allow me to learn many new words :) Asante sana!)
My wife and I chose Tanzania for various reasons, including:
- We knew Moshi from some years ago (we climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro), and have sentimental attachment to the place (I asked my wife on Uhuru peak).
- We knew our son (1 year old) would be safe (good medical care, few mosquitoes and nasty animals, varied food). He made friends with our neighbourhood kids pretty fast :)
- She had some connections with a local NGO and so could work as a volunteer here.
- We remembered Tanzanians to be the most welcoming and friendly people we've ever met (and we had the chance to travel a lot). We were wrong BTW, Tanzanians are even more welcoming than we remembered :)
- Kiswahili is a challenge to learn, but we like learning new languages (we take lessons bi-weekly)
- It's much more attractive than most places for our family to visit during their vacation ;)
- I always echoed Mark Shuttleworth's sentiment that "Africa is the future", and I decided to put my actions where my mouth is :p
I could go on for a long time, we really like it here.
Oh yeah, and TTCL deploying a good country-wide fiber optics backbone did help as well :)
I have a 2Mb/s symmetric link to my house, which is faster than I could get in many many places, including the US midwest.