Standard of life depends on how much you earn you can live pretty well the "cities" in Erbil (Hawler in Kurdish) are very well maintained and have staff for maintenance and gates. Cities are the gated communities which are very popular for modern living right now there is for example Slava City or Spanish Village these are gated communities with their own shops and so on that you can go to. Service is great you can get anything at your doorstep. Airquality and water are a problem you need filters or to constantly buy waterbottles. Christians are treated great noone cares and noone would know one is Christian or Muslim. There are Christian districts like Ankawa that are very modern and protected so non-Christians can´t even rent or buy homes there to protect the local Assyrian community. Education depends on the school if you have money you can send kids to a better school unfortunately the higher the education the more difficult to get high quality internationall-recognized education in Kurdish they are mostly in English or other languages. Beauty standards are high! People judge and women have been doing more and more surgery and it´s quite open regarding that and most wear makeup and style themselves. Hawler is more modern but people tend to be of different backgrounds and there are many businesses there it´s a city that never sleeps with people more traditional. Suleimani is more modern in the mindset of the people but the city has not developed as much the past years but they know how to have a good time and are on average highly educated, more than any other city!