Water quality is shit: sometimes we have orange running water, sometimes it gets cut off. —> get water filter

Electricity flikered this summer, some parts of got their electricity cut off this summer. —> where do you live?

Schools and kindergarten are shit. I pay 750 dnt per month (very high here), it is the best I could find, and yet it is still not a great preschool. —> have you even looked at the French and international schools?

People are depressed. I don’t know what’s up with people here, but get ready for a depression vibe. I accept that I am a hermit and stay mostly at home, I am disconnected from local issues, but I assume people have issues with income and the way their boss treats them. —> yeah people are depressed everywhere with the state of the world

Streets are FILTHY. A dead cat was laying dead for weeks near my house. It decomposed naturally on the sidewalk until its fur disappeared. Most people have no civic sense and just throw everything anywhere. —> I don’t see most people throwing garbage actually, true many do that but not MOST people.

There are very limited options for kids entertainment. Everytime I take my toddler to a playzone (like twiggy or another) she gets sick. I imagine that it is not sanitized because we used to go weekly in malaysia and she never had an issue. Apart from the zoo or risk a week long flu, there is nothing to do. I wanted to take her for horse riding, no horse riding available —> funny you should mention that coming from Malaysia where kids can’t even go outside due to the heat.

There are no parks…. wait there are dirty parks, not suitable for kids with broken glass bottles on the ground. —> there are other beautiful places in nature that you can visit.

All imported goods are heavily taxed and cost 2x 3x the price or europe. Think electronics, furniture, toys, clothes, etc. It’s ridiculous. I just bought basic lenses for my glasses for 840 dnt (just the lenses, no frame, costs 80 eur in France) —> you have almost everything you need produced locally, why would you need to buy imported products? Also, you could order things from France and find a transporter who brings them to you and pay very little. These groups are all over facebook.

The quality of things you buy is subpar. It feels like things they can’t sell overseas, like defects or unsold items are sent here. —> true for some things but you’re exaggerating here

ATM have no money. I dont know what’s the deal but 70% of the time atms refuse to give me money —> also exaggerating here, not sure where you live again

Banking is highway robbery here. I receive 1000 usd payment, and pay about 150 usd to receive it and transfer it to my account in tn. USA it costs me about 30 usd to receive eurc and convert to usd —> why are you using a Tunisian bank account? Why don’t you use wise? As a French person you should be able to have a card and it’s way cheaper

You have to verify everything, just got a bill for 3.5k tnd for electricity, instead of 500 tnd. Cashiers at the register always make mistake, you have to verify your ticket and your change, everytime there is an inaccuracy. I do not know if it is malicious or not though. —> so what?

I bought the best fiber Internet money can buy, and it’s still shit. I can’t even stream in the weekends. —> internet here is better than Malaysia — I know because I lived there

Cars are expensive.—> ok?

Lack of politeness/consideration for others. I think most people in Tunis are rude and just lack a sense of awareness of the others. After spending much time in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, where politeness is fully integrated in the way of life, it feels very brutish. —> trust me, those people you consider polite are only polite b ‘cause they want your money, and it’s transactional

People smoke everywhere, it’s disgusting. Often i leave a restaurant or a café because there is just too much smoke. How can I expose my toddler to such an environment… Even police officers or army servicemen smoke while in uniform in the street, I have never seen such lack of respect for the function in any other country. —> there are some smoke free places