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@Pugan, thanks for sharing, I almost felt standing in your shoes.
I am leaving soon and looking forward for the new experience, but I have one question:
I am leaving to Georgia (escale in Turkey first), is it possible that I get a 1 way ticket?
I don't know when I am coming back and I don't want to purchase a ticket for nothing but people keep telling me that security will not like the absence of a return ticket, what do you think? Should I risk it and get only a 1 way ticket?
Pugan wrote
AVOlio wrote
Pugan wroteSo I finally left lebanon. And let me tell you quickly that the hype IS REAL. I never imagined it to be this amazing! I am in moscow btw.

Everything, like literally everything, from the streets, crosswalks, stop signs, timers, cleanliness, organization, beautiful architecture, the extreme care for a human being walking on the streets, the amazing transportation systems… I can keep going till forever. But above everything, there is one thing that really keeps blowing my mind away till this day! Lebanon is a place where the things that occupy your mental abilities and time, are things that no human being should ever consider to think about in their entire life! Things like electricity, fuel, transportation, water, food, economical crisis, extreme political corruption… The thing that seriously made me feel like I am in a dream, is how calm my mind is here! I feel like I can finally focus on whatever thing I want! freely and without any inturrptions. AND this is a dormitory student speaking!! This is seriously a great pleasure I experience every single day. My friends in europe told me: "Welcome to a normal life." )

For all the ambitious or success pursuing people out there, please, try to leave, at the soonest possible opportunity.

Congrats.

I wished to leave the country since my teenage years.

But never had the means to, or was aware of the know how's.
how old are you now? you married and have children?
Im 29..
No wife no children.
AVOlio wrote
Pugan wrote
AVOlio wrote

Congrats.

I wished to leave the country since my teenage years.

But never had the means to, or was aware of the know how's.
how old are you now? you married and have children?
Im 29..
No wife no children.
you can still leave I think. Unless there are other reasons that are stopping you from leaving, it's a bit weird to me that you never knew of the means to do it. The internet is full of stuff! I mean ofcourse, it depends on where you are going and what you wanna do there, but long story short, any opportunity you get to leave lebanon for any respectful country, will still give you a life miles better than the one you have in Lebanon.

Take me for example, studying music (which was only my hobby nothing more), at one of the best and most competitve academies in the country, in a very cold country, living in a very old and kind of shitty dormitory, and knowing less than 10% russian, knowing that it's a treasure if you find an english speaker among the russians and that my academy teaches only in russian, with all of these challenges that might somehow seem impossible to be honest, I still see it as a heaven compared to lebanon!
Guitaret wrote@Pugan, thanks for sharing, I almost felt standing in your shoes.
I am leaving soon and looking forward for the new experience, but I have one question:
I am leaving to Georgia (escale in Turkey first), is it possible that I get a 1 way ticket?
I don't know when I am coming back and I don't want to purchase a ticket for nothing but people keep telling me that security will not like the absence of a return ticket, what do you think? Should I risk it and get only a 1 way ticket?
Hi there! Did you get your visa or not yet?
Pugan wrote
Guitaret wrote@Pugan, thanks for sharing, I almost felt standing in your shoes.
I am leaving soon and looking forward for the new experience, but I have one question:
I am leaving to Georgia (escale in Turkey first), is it possible that I get a 1 way ticket?
I don't know when I am coming back and I don't want to purchase a ticket for nothing but people keep telling me that security will not like the absence of a return ticket, what do you think? Should I risk it and get only a 1 way ticket?
Hi there! Did you get your visa or not yet?
It doesn't need a visa for Lebanese, I just want to know if I am obliged to purchase a return ticket.
Do you guys think I can put my external drives in the checked luggage (the one that does NOT go up with me on the plane) ? Or will the drives be damaged and/or stolen that way ?
Guitaret wrote
Pugan wrote
Guitaret wrote@Pugan, thanks for sharing, I almost felt standing in your shoes.
I am leaving soon and looking forward for the new experience, but I have one question:
I am leaving to Georgia (escale in Turkey first), is it possible that I get a 1 way ticket?
I don't know when I am coming back and I don't want to purchase a ticket for nothing but people keep telling me that security will not like the absence of a return ticket, what do you think? Should I risk it and get only a 1 way ticket?
Hi there! Did you get your visa or not yet?
It doesn't need a visa fro Lebanese, I just want to know if I am obliged to purchase a return ticket.
Get a refundable one, buy it, print an itinerary, cancel it, get your money back. If asked by the security, show them the itinerary.
DG wroteDo you guys think I can put my external drives in the checked luggage (the one that does NOT go up with me on the plane) ? Or will the drives be damaged and/or stolen that way ?
I suggest you keep them with the carry on baggage (the one that goes with you on the plane) since it will stay with you all the time and noone else will carry it or throw it. The checked luggage will go through a lot of harsh work and reckless throwing here and there, that your harddrivers, unless seriously properly secured and protected in place, they might get damaged.
2 months later
My brother this year finished college (AUB) he studied nursing, what's the best option right now? he's fluent in English and knows Turkish.
a year later
Hello, in 2019 I had a work contract in Quebec and had started all the necessary steps for securing a temporary work permit in relation to this contract, as directed by the company.

In dec 2020 we were waiting for the last step so that I can leave for Canada and join the company when they notified me that they were "canceling the contract" which I'm pretty sure is a breach of contract.

So it's been a while but I still want to see if there is anything I can do to get my rights back, at least some compensation for all the time that I spent preparing the paperwork and for loss of income.

I'm back in Beirut so not sure how to proceed. I know I should probably talk to a lawyer but does anyone has any specific tips, maybe for one that would be affordable?
rolf wroteHello, in 2019 I had a work contract in Quebec and had started all the necessary steps for securing a temporary work permit in relation to this contract, as directed by the company.

In dec 2020 we were waiting for the last step so that I can leave for Canada and join the company when they notified me that they were "canceling the contract" which I'm pretty sure is a breach of contract.

So it's been a while but I still want to see if there is anything I can do to get my rights back, at least some compensation for all the time that I spent preparing the paperwork and for loss of income.

I'm back in Beirut so not sure how to proceed. I know I should probably talk to a lawyer but does anyone has any specific tips, maybe for one that would be affordable?
I'd start by reading the contract myself in detail and making sure there isn't any clause in there that allows them to cancel the contract for any reason.
Salloum wrote I'd start by reading the contract myself in detail and making sure there isn't any clause in there that allows them to cancel the contract for any reason.
IIRC, here in Germany, you cannot retract a contract once signed but they can fire you on the first day of probation.
a year later
For those interested in Germany, citizenship just got a lot easier to acquire. Easiest path is for students to get accepted into one of the technical univerisities there (most of them are practically free IIRC). If you're not a student anymore and you managed to pass the LebGeeks sign-up programming test, you can probably land a technical job at a German company.
The German parliament has passed a law that will make it easier for foreigners to acquire citizenship, as Berlin looks to immigration to solve a dire shortage of skilled workers.

Under the law, passed by 382 votes to 234, people will be able to apply for citizenship after living in Germany for five years, rather than eight as at present. Those who have made a particular effort to integrate — for example by becoming proficient in German or doing voluntary work — can apply after three years.

It also lifts a ban on dual nationality for people from non-EU countries.
source: https://archive.is/NvoaK