🇨🇮 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire | The "Little Paris" of West Africa

🌴 Environment: • Lush & Clean: Tree-lined streets, minimal litter—could rival some "green cities" in Europe! • Surprise: For West Africa, the hygiene level is impressively high (though avoid rainy season floods). 🚗 Transport Chaos: • Epic Traffic Jams: 15km = 40min from airport 🥵 / 7km to Carrefour = 45min at 6PM (worse than Shanghai rush hour!) • Yango App Savior: Beat taxi scams, but add 30% extra time for gridlock. • Mystery Buses: Modern Chinese-made buses (yay!)... but no route maps (good luck figuring stops!). ⛽ Cost of Living (African Standards): • Petrol: 870 XOF/L (ouch vs Cameroon's 840) • Taxis: 1,500 XOF (~$2.5) for 2km • Skyscraper Boom: New office towers & gated communities sprouting like mushrooms! Hot Take: Abidjan's "organized chaos" blends: ✓ European-style infrastructure ✗ Lagos-level traffic ✓ Chinese-built highways ✗ French-colonial bureaucracy #AbidjanVibes #WestAfricaRising