[salih]

As a Tunisian I feel obliged to put my 2 cents.

The cost of life is pretty cheap around here ($500/month is the average salary for a teacher, the minimum income is around $200/m), and its getting cheaper with the decline of the tunisian dinar Vs $ & €

I live near the cities of Sousse & Monastir, and i can share few thoughts:

- rent for a decent apartement is about $300/m in the city and less than $200 outside

- food is relatively cheap around here, with a wide variety of fresh fish

- Monastir is a beatiful city, good climate, excellent beaches, the travel to the aeroport cost less than15 min and 50 cent , with weekly/biweekly flights to major european cities.

- Tunisia is actually very safe and stable, major touristic destinations(hammamat, sousse, monastir, djerba (which btw is a very decent destination) are given more attention by the Interior minister.

- internet quality is not on par with the 1st world, 8Mb cost around $40/ m

- french is widely spoken, english is understood especially by youth

- wikitravel have some good ( and accurate) articles about tunisia & tunisian cities

[baby]

It's actually weird that no african countries make this list. I mean, I can understand for the rest of Africa but the Maghreb has some pretty nice areas. Maybe the weather is too hot?

I wouldn't recommend Morocco though because you get harassed 24/7 if you just look like you have more money than the next one.

[Dartanion7]

Would you say that Tunisia is safer than Morocco? I visited Morocco a few years back and loved it; I wanted to extend my trip to Tunisia, but I was told by a few people that I wouldn't be as safe there as the larger cities aren't as focused on tourism as, say, Marakesch, Tangier, etc.

[salih]

I dont see any reason why you wouldnt be safe. USA lifted the travel alert for Tunisia 2014. More than 6 million tourist entered Tunisia in 2013 (compared to 10M in morroco), the number is expected to be higher in 2014.