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According to my family's historical itinerary, I have been to Jeddah when I was five but I do not recall anything about that place, it must have been a boring time.

According to my family's historical itinerary I was born their and left for London as a 6 month yr old baby. I don't remember a thing

I actually had to google that, I thought it was in Yemen.

Why is the place so run down?

Obviously not in that house though

We had a great house in Saudi mansion with maids, not bad the people were racist and very hateful

BlackVelvet wrote:I actually had to google that, I thought it was in Yemen.

You know, BV, Jeddah means Grandma in arabic and some say that ayeeyo Hawa descended to that place when she was expelled from Jannah!!!.

I was there literally last ramadan, so August/sept 2010. Somalis generally live in bad conditions, those without sharci that is. Some terrible stories I heard and seen, really gets you down to see what hardship other somalis face.

*Nobleman* wrote:I was there literally last ramadan, so August/sept 2010. Somalis generally live in bad conditions, those without sharci that is. Some terrible stories I heard and seen, really gets you down to see what hardship other somalis face.

Even those with Iqaamah live in bad conditions. Only citizens live decent.

Navy9 wrote:

BlackVelvet wrote:I actually had to google that, I thought it was in Yemen.

You know, BV, Jeddah means Grandma in arabic and some say that ayeeyo Hawa descended to that place when she was expelled from Jannah!!!.

I had no idea it was called Grandma well I guess it still beats Iskushuban

Adam and Hawa were expelled at the same time right? You make it seem as though it was a solitary trip?

Yeah I stayed with a family with citizenship, who had a fantastic house and an indoneisa maid and also stayed with a family who only had an iqamah and who lived in very modest conditions. Two different worlds

*Nobleman* wrote:I was there literally last ramadan, so August/sept 2010. Somalis generally live in bad conditions, those without sharci that is. Some terrible stories I heard and seen, really gets you down to see what hardship other somalis face.

Nobleman, Can you believe when my dad was head of a project there in Saudi he worked in Riyadh though were there were barely any foreigners all pure arabs. Anyway he ran his biggest project(wasn't paid again for racial reasons ) and he brought 10-15 somalis from somalia and the amount of racism, stop and searches and anger they had for all these somalis in the area. Some moved to Jeddah after and still live there

BlackVelvet wrote:
Adam and Hawa were expelled at the same time right? You make it seem as though it was a solitary trip?

lol@ solidary

Is there someone who will think as such? But I have mentioned ayeeyo Hawa in specific since we were talking about Jeddah.

*Nobleman* wrote:Yeah I stayed with a family with citizenship, who had a fantastic house and an indoneisa maid and also stayed with a family who only had an iqamah and who lived in very modest conditions. Two different worlds

Yea theres some Somalis that have the citizenship. Can You believe way back, when Somalia was good and stable, there were many Somalis who were offered the citizenship but refused it? In retrospect I'm sure they would've took it and ran. But for a ajanabi Jeddah is the best place to live, because there is so many ajaanib, and even the Saudis that live there are so used to dealing with foreigners that it kinda brought them down to earth.