Experience in Beirut, Lebanon by karim

What is it like to live in Beirut? Would you recommend it? What is the city like?

Beirut was one of the most expensive cities in the world, of course, depending in which area you are willing to stay and type of accommodation. Nowadays, due to the financial crisis and the drop of the LBP/USD, people coming from outside Lebanon having Euro or Dollars as income, it will be so cheap for them to live and experience life in Lebanon. Before, 1 USD = 1500 LBP but today, 8500 LBP is equal to 1 USD. After this crisis. Life will be affordable for international students including tuition fees and cost of living because prices did not increase too much as the LBP/USD did.

What is the student lifestyle like in Beirut?

Beirut is safest city for students and is one of the most cities that have international students because of its education, night life, safe....

How much does it cost to live in Beirut?

-around 100$/month accommodation
-around 70$/month food
-transportation up to 0.5$/ticket
-fast food 3~5$/meal
-local product are to cheap

Is it difficult to find accommodation in Beirut? Is there any advice you can give?

No, we can use the application Airbnb it will help a lot

What is the food like? What are your favourite dishes?

Lebanese traditional food is one of the most recommended type of food worldwide and we can see that if we did a little search on youtube

What places would you recommend visiting in Beirut?

everything

Is it good to eat out in Beirut? Can you tell us your favourite spots?

we can use an application called Zomato

Is the nightlife good in Beirut? Where is good to go?

Hamra street
Mar mikhael
Gemmayze

What advice would you give future students heading to Beirut?

Study well...