My cousin’s daughter is working on commercial flights from Amman, Jordan into cities like Baghdad and Basra. Her mom says that her daughter is safer doing that than living in Johannesburg with her parents. For all that I’ve heard about Johannesburg’s crime rate, I find that hard to believe.
But it does sound as if usually the daughter’s company’s planes land, unload and take off. They don’t hang around. One time a mechanical problem kept the plane overnight in Baghdad. The company told my cousin’s daughter and her colleagues to "take a cab into Baghdad and find a hotel."
That didn’t sound too safe. Luckily an army man heard that and offered to put them up overnight in the barracks.
I can’t imagine living that kind of life with forays into Iraq. On the other hand, the violent crime rate is astounding in Johannesburg.