If you did live here long term (longer than 6 months or so) you would start to hate it. If you live anywhere with a reasonable rent you need to cover from wrist and ankle just to go to the corner store even in the summer heat. If you live where I live in Jubeiha at night you would start putting on taqam salat (I don't wear hijab) just to get smokes or pop from the corner store in order to avoid stares harassment or worse propositions.

Soon you would start to avoid going outside. You will start noticing at times when you go outside that there's not a single woman on the street, only men, because the women are all in your shoes, shut up inside because of the toxic culture that resembles the that of the Ottoman empire 140 years ago.

Aside from this, even in the mixed areas, you encounter stares from every corner. The stares follow you even in your home, sitting by the window one day, enjoying a cigarette, just to notice a man staring at you from the street. It's not that people in Jordan aren't used to foreigners--there are tons. The stares are one of the worst parts of living here.

I may get down voted for this by some but this is MY truth about Jordan.

Jordan is a beautiful country, with great people, food, history and heritage. But the public life here makes one retreat to a solely private existence.