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Originally Posted by awahee123
Egypt certainlt ticks most of the boxes for living,I wouldn't imagine there would be a massive problem for anybody to get work at the moment as long as they weren't thinking of earning a mass working for somebody.
To be honest other then that it's looking good.
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I agree totally.
Anyone looking for a well-paid 9 to 5 in Egypt is going to do well to get a salary much better than an Egyptian would unless they have some very special skills that are needed.
Hurghada is a small town though, so I don't see any great demand there for B2B type skills.
However, I was taught that the key to making money is to "find a need and fill it"
Everywhere I look in Hurghada I see unfulfilled needs. We've already discussed the need for a good rental agency, the need for more excursion type activities, a good English/Irish pub, somewhere that sells English type groceries (including bacon!). I could add to that a free English-language newspaper/What's On Guide (the Russians have theirs already).
I could go on - everywhere I looked I saw another opportunity - but there are only so many hours in a day to explore them all.
The English-speaking expat population is still tiny at the moment, but you can see from this forum alone that more and more people are thinking of going over there. As it expands, so more opportunities present themselves.
Can someone open an English-language bookstore please? That's the one thing that I know I'm going to miss.
Anyone with a little capital and entrepreneurial spirit should do OK in Hurghada if they do a bit of homework, work hard and take precautions against getting ripped off.