Malawi and Tanzania for 6 months?

Re: Malawi and Tanzania for 6 months?

• mxolisi member

  

  January 2012

  Where specifically would you be living? Arusha? Dar? Lilongwe? Blantyre? Zomba?

  I spend a lot of time in Tanzania  (I've spent 9+ months there over the past 5 years) and have worked in Malawi for shorter periods of time.

  Both countries are very nice. I prefer Tanzania simply because Lilongwe is a really sleepy city and it got a bit boring (but I don't have a family, so you may feel otherwise).

  Are your kids school-aged? 

  "We tend to be patronizing about the poor in a very specific sense, which is that we tend to think,

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• Katie_F

  January 2012

  I've never been to Tanzania, but I have spent quite a bit of time in Malawi. I agree with Mxolisi, it entirely depends on what area we're talking about. Lilongwe and Blantyre are relatively decent sized commercial centers with a large number of expats. The third largest city, Mzuzu, you're no longer talking about what I would consider to be a city. That's not to be said that it's not livable. I've spent several months there, but most of the non-Malawians there are either aid workers or missionaries. I doubt there'd be a lot for your kids to do and I'm sure there wouldn't be adequate schooling. On the other side of things, I've heard from friends living in Lilongwe that the international primary school there is one of the best in Africa.

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