Living conditions
So, I’m not one to fool myself easily about living conditions of some people here in Kuwait, I’m always a bit sad to see them with my own eyes.
Last week I took a walk around the ‘hood here in Mangaf and found structures that look like old traditional houses. Well, Leftovers of those at least.
2 of them inhabited.


One in not THAT BAD of shape and inhabited by maybe more than one family with cars and all, maybe even Kuwaitis. At least one guy, working on his car, looked like it.


Now, what really irritated me, is the one that was in the worst shape AND inhabited is right beside a mosque.
Again, I don’t have the right to judge anyone and I won’t, but by posting these pictures you can make up your own mind about what I am thinking about it.
I don’t blame you when you don’t comment.
Because all I could say about what I felt that moment would probably get me right to jail ![]()


Someone was just hanging the laundry there and behind the house some guys were unloading vegetables from a van. I didn’t want to embarrass them or get into trouble by taking more pictures.
And this is just one case that I happened to stumble upon. I’m sure there are even worse cases.
Again, this is not my country, nor my religion or politics - I just post what I see.
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2 comments
Why ruin everything that resembles us as a kuwaiti tradition... I remember there was this old mosque made out of mud in sharq area near the beach it was in the middle of no where...I used to pray there with my father after going to friends dewaniya ( gather place).
now as I look at that place its a construction site...wheres the mosque ? they built a new one out of concrete....
Why can you just leave it as it is. 50 years from now you wont find anything like this in Kuwait.
You prolly dont know what youm elba7ar is, it was like a fair on the gulf road, traditional rides, horse riding and other stuff that I really liked its been there for I have no idea how long...they demolished it all totaly and rebuild it with modern crap...not worth going to anymore I swear..
pisses me off to be honest =(
In Germany, if a house has reached a certain age (100 years? I don't know) it gets a certain protection status.
But in our greedy days many houses got torn down before that and it's a great loss.
Much got destroyed during the damn war already
But at least in many cities you still have old structures.
And I gotta admit, that that is something I have missed here in Kuwait greatly!
I was very surprised when I got here, that there are almost no old structures and I thought, well, maybe it got all destroyed during the war.
But learning otherwise is even sadder
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2007-12-20 13:11:33, 