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soapdodger
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 Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: Destinations from hell |
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It would be interesting to hear what people think are the worst possible places to take up a teaching position, be it a country, city or town. Of course everyone has prejudices but try to be objective. It could generate some useful information that might prevent people from taking decisions they might later regret.
My personal choice would be Warsaw, Poland. It has a magical mix of a phenomenal number of badly-run, unscrupulous schools; architecture which is distinctly painful on the eye; very inclement weather ( winters have been known to go down to -30C); very high criminality; locals who themselves admit that their rudeness is unacceptable and worst of all, probably because of the aforementioned properties, it seems to attract an incredibly high number of dysfunctional individuals to teach EFL.
I'm sure there are worse places......... |
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some waygug-in
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I've read that Uzbekistan can be sheer joy. 
I'm sure there are all kinds of crappy places to teach though. |
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JonnyB61
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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Glasgow!  |
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kaw
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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Location: somewhere hot and sunny
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| Jakarta!!!!!!!! For lots of reasons, |
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Shonai Ben
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| Fukui..... |
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FemaleNomad
Joined: 17 Mar 2007
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| JonnyB61 wrote: |
| Glasgow! |
Only because I was interested in eventually making my way over here do I dare ask why you're putting Glasgow on the "Bad" list. Just curious. Thanks! |
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ls650
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| kaw wrote: |
| Jakarta!!!!!!!! For lots of reasons, |
I'll second that. What a dump. |
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tedkarma
Joined: 17 May 2004
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Location: The World is my Oyster
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| I spent five years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Wouldn't do it again - but was able to stash a very nice sum of $$$$ during that time. |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Pohang, South Korea. Now that is a dump, second biggest steel smelter in the world, what a claim to fame. Pollution is so bad, it can't snow there. I think I was sick about 80% of the time there.
Judging from what was washed up on the beaches, Jesus would not be the only one who could walk on water. |
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basiltherat
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:47 am Post subject: |
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I'll have to third jakarta. It embodies (?) just about everything that's wrong with urban life; filth, crowds, impatience, high costs, poverty, general chaos and injustice on the grossest scale, high unemployment, high crime rate, corruption, flooded streets (wet season), sweltering temperatures (hot season) ad nauseum.
I havnt been to a lot of cities in the world but every one i HAVE visited has far less of the above than Jakarta.
Glad I left.
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