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Lesley

@Tunisiandolly

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Australian expat in Tunisia

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Australian

Lives in Bizerte and Cebalat

Registration: 01 October 2010

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Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
3 years ago
helensou

mail to and from Tunisia by helensou

Hi all - I wonder if anyone has experienced problems sending and receiving mail. We sent a card to UK on Dec 14 and it never reached there. Our daughter sent us greeting cards from the UK early Dec and also over a month ago and these have never ...

Lesley

The other suggestion is to get a post office box. This may help, but......this is Tunisia!!! Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
3 years ago
BeachBum2015

Buying a house in Tunisia by BeachBum2015

Hi Everybody :cheers: , I am looking into buying a house in tunisia. I would like to know what I can get for 20.000/30.000 Euros there, in Hammamet and Djerba, I was told that it is possible to buy a nice home there with that amount. Is that true ...

Lesley

Where in Tunisia do you want to live? Coast or inland. Big city or smaller. What are the things that are important for you? Will you have a car. I live in Bizerte a 40 minute journey to Tunis but it is not as chaotic and I have everything I could ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
3 years ago
helensou

mail to and from Tunisia by helensou

Hi all - I wonder if anyone has experienced problems sending and receiving mail. We sent a card to UK on Dec 14 and it never reached there. Our daughter sent us greeting cards from the UK early Dec and also over a month ago and these have never ...

Lesley

I have everything I send or receive by Fedex , that way it is tracked and can't be thieved! Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Fehmi Mrabet

How can I send money to my Russian MasterCard from Tunisia? by Fehmi Mrabet

Well I have a Russian MasterCard and I'm a Tunisian normal citizen, I want to put some money in my Russian account but I don't know how or if I can + I have a bank account here in Tunisia if that helps.

Lesley

There is no way to send money out of Tunisia for a citizen, unless you have a business that deals in foreign currency and you have a foreign currency account. There are some ways to get money out but these rely on you going for a vacation or having ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Riif2020

Honest Opinion on Tunisian Men/ Arab men by Riif2020

Hello, any of you here dating / or got married to a Tunisian guy? How are they? Do they behave like other Arabs or just different one? Are you living in Tunisia with them? Please help me on how and when to know that the guy is serious and I should ...

Lesley

They think anywhere but here will be better. They are usually unemployed, living off their parents. They are not tertiary educated and most fo not have their bac. Usually they do not live in the capital Tunis but from a smaller town. Gafsa in the ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Loïc

Medication in Tunisia by Loïc

Good morning everyone, Whether it's a simple cold or a chronic illness, medication and medicine use vary from country to country and culture to culture. When you are used to certain brands or types of drugs, being in a country like Tunisia ...

Lesley

agree with you 100%......no hygiene!! Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Cdella02

I need advice by Cdella02

I have recently been in contact with a guy living in Tunis. We have been webbing over 2 months and everyday he has't stopped texting. A few weeks bk he stated that he is down and depressed due to not having a job any longer. He said he had bills ...

Lesley

He is a scammer. I know, I lived here many years and it's always the same story, Mother or another family member sick, they never ask directly for money. Wont call for a few days as they are entertaining another foreign victim, or their phone ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Riif2020

Honest Opinion on Tunisian Men/ Arab men by Riif2020

Hello, any of you here dating / or got married to a Tunisian guy? How are they? Do they behave like other Arabs or just different one? Are you living in Tunisia with them? Please help me on how and when to know that the guy is serious and I should ...

Lesley

If you truly want my honest opinion I tell you.....forget it. He is a face on the internet looking to get out of Tunisia nothing more!! I have lived here for many years and I have seen this scam thousands of times. Find a nice guy in your country Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Pissarro99

selling a town house in Tunisia by Pissarro99

If a married couple, she is Irish, he is Tunisian, separate and wish to sell a house in Tunisia and divide the proceeds, will she encounter difficulties in transferring her portion of the money from the sale out of Tunisia- to an Irish bank? The ...

Lesley

It will be almost impossible for her to gain from the sale if the title is in the husband's name. Unless she has evidence that she paid 1/2 such as a virement from a Tunisian bank or an eft sent from an account in her name to the account of the ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
4 years ago
Loïc

Medication in Tunisia by Loïc

Good morning everyone, Whether it's a simple cold or a chronic illness, medication and medicine use vary from country to country and culture to culture. When you are used to certain brands or types of drugs, being in a country like Tunisia ...

Lesley

I have no problems with medication here. Majority comes from France and is significantly cheaper than in my home country. I don't have prescriptions but go to the same pharmacy for the last 11 years and get it over the counter. When I visit my ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
5 years ago
Priscilla

Sending and receiving packages in Tunisia by Priscilla

Hello, As an expat, there are inevitably certain items you might want or need from back home, and around the holiday period, many people like to send gift packages. How easy is it to send and receive packages in Tunisia? Is the public ...

Lesley

There is still no butter available on my island but the Carrefour in the nearby large city had some.. but not much. As for La Poste, have just paid for a private letter box and ordered a couple of (cheap) items from Amazon. Interested to see if they ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
5 years ago
GuestPoster7853

Ordering a new mosaic from El Jem by GuestPoster7853

Hello everyone I am trying to figure out how to order mosaic's from the factories in El Jem and pay fair and honest prices but I can not get a single Tunisian person in the trade markets to be honest with me. Is it too much to simply employ ...

Lesley

Hello everyone I am trying to figure out how to order mosaic's from the factories in El Jem and pay fair and honest prices but I can not get a single Tunisian person in the trade markets to be honest with me. Is it too much to simply employ ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
5 years ago
Angarhad

Moving to Tunisia by Angarhad

I live in Cairo with my Egyptian husband. He wants to move to Tunisia and work there at any job he could get. I have my doubts, as we are an older couple and he does not really want to work any more in his profession, accountancy. We have no family. ...

Lesley

I live in Cairo with my Egyptian husband. He wants to move to Tunisia and work there at any job he could get. I have my doubts, as we are an older couple and he does not really want to work any more in his profession, accountancy. We have no family. ... Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
6 years ago
MartheGh

Non-married couple living together by MartheGh

Hello everyone, I am currently planning to move to Tunisia and would like to know if there are people here who have experience with living together with their boyfriend/girlfriend without being married. If so, which city was this in, what was your ...

Lesley

foreigners can do as they like here really but would you all blatantly break the laws in your own country. if you want respect here then respect us. it makes for a very good life Read More

Lesley
Tunisiandolly replied to a thread
6 years ago
MartheGh

translation documents+residency permit thru bank account,not retired by MartheGh

Hello everyone, as some of you know, I will be moving in about 3 months (in September) to Kelibia in Tunisia. I want to prepare the necessary files for the application for a residence permit/carte de séjour (which I will ask in January 2019 to ...

Lesley

it is easy to have carte de sejour. all your doc can be translated cheaply here but perhaps they will already be in French? It should be your birth certificate and passport. your foreign bank acc is not useful but you need to transfer the equivalent ... Read More