Azerbajanian Women

[Moonlight]

Turbo, Im jealous , I really wish I could be in Baku now . First of all, Im more than familiar with this country, city, nation - Im Russian, but I  was born in Baku and spent the significant part of my life in this windy city. Azerbaijan has always been a prosperious place in the USSR, it has great amount of oil, gas, and people who work there and live - their 'way of thinking', their culture, their mentality differs from Russian one (in a good way). Azerbaijan had hard times in the middle of 90s of last century because of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict - you hardly ever meet any Armenian person in the streets in Baku now. Nowadays, I see lots of new businesses are being opened in Baku, lots of companies set their branches there, especially Turkey, Italy, UK. This developing business gives a lot of careers opportunities to Azerbaijan young people. This country is more civilized, they let their women work, and traditionally when a couple gives a birth to a baby, grandparents take great care of baby, letting parents be free for careers and further life, which is very wise - (my point of view). Usually they live very close to each other, some families prefer to live in the same high-rises which is also a good idea - you live separately from your parents but at the same time you are very close and any time parents need any help, you can just walk from one "blok" to another one. Respect to old people is another typical thing for Azerbaijan. I have not been to Baku for a long time but when we lived there, no old people were ever seen in the streets. Azerbaijan people bring up their children since childhood with respect to older ones, they teach kids to respect, take care, to cherish great-grand-grandmoms-dads, whoever it is. Old people usually stay home, always have the best care from their children now. Very different from Russia where old people live on their own, without help and support from children.

So, Turbo, I dont know if you are enjoying your stay in Baku, I wish you all the best and if you meet a nice lady there, you are a very lucky guy then 

[Killer-B]

Moonlight -

Welcome to the board! Good post! Your "international flavor" and experience with Baku and "cultures" are more than welcome here!

Do you happen to know if there are any agencies there? And what are the women's opinions about western men, and age differences (since the economy is so good)?

I'm sure Turbo is having the time of his life!

Cheers-

KB

[Moonlight]

thank you, Killer B

Unfortunately i dont know any agencies which would be avaliable in Baku, I know one website where you can find lots and lots of people from Baku, www.bakupages.com.
People in Baku kind of conservative, nowadays people meet each other either at work, at the Universities, or at friend's places, or at business conferences. I doubt that any couple in Azerbaijan has met in bar or in the street. Plus, its very popular (yes, it may seem very strange) but usually parents of a young man look for a good girl, and they visit her parents, look at the place where the girl has been raised up, and then the engagement happens. Traditionally parents of groom come to girl's place, give a ring to a fiancee, and they discuss different things for future, like buying an apartment for their children to live, about job for husband (if his job is not a good one), any wedding plans. Usually its about a year from engagements till wedding, and during this time groom's parents make a lot of presents for bride, like jewelry, clothes, tableware (primary expensive Chineese or Janapeese stuff). As for the age difference, traditionally husbands are older than wifes, though I have not met people with difference like 20 or more.  A lot of Azerbaijan women get married Turkish men, they have the same language, the cultures are very close due to the same roots. Women's opinion about 'western men' - really, its a tough question, i think every and each women wants to love, to be loved, to have a successful family and have her kids in emotinally stable environment. I think these values have no boundaries (sorry if spelling is not correct, I have no time to look up online dictionary:)

[Turboguy]

What you are talking about sounds like the arranged marriages we have heard about.  I don't know if that is good or not.  I do get the impression that women are not regarded so highly here as we do in America.  My experience wih the men here is limited to the people I am visiting.  The main guy I am working with here is married with two kids, a girlfrined in Kharkov, one in Paris and a date saturday with someone he considers "hot"

I have not heard of any agencies here to match gals with foregn guys.  If you go to some of the traditional sites there are not many gals from here.

I do like the city.  It has the most construction I have ever seen in my life.  I would belive that if you take single family homes out of the equation there are more new buildings going up in Baku than in the eastern half of the usa combined.   I would guess somewhere around 500 new buildings in the 1 story, half a city block wide range.   Single family home construction would far outpace any us city.

One more day here.  I will be very glad to head home.  Today we went to Cuba.  Not the country, it is a summer resort city a few hours drive from Baku.  I think I went to a Muslim funeral, or at least the dinner for one.  As soon as we finished eating we went 5 miles too................ a restaurant in the hills and had a second dinner 30 minutes after we finished the first. 

I am glad to make it back alive.  Let's see, at one point we were going 100 miles an hour or almost in the high speed lane of a four lane divided highway.  Of course we were going northbound in the southbound high speed lane.  Fortuantely someone flashed his lights and we turned around. 

Then there was the flying bus.  We were going about 80 when it was two lane and the road narrowed for a bridge.  As we were crossing the bridge a bus coming the other way went up the bridge ramp towards us, flew through the air a bit, out of control and came into our lane.  We missed him though and he regained control once he got passed us.

Then there was the time we had to ditch into the left berm because we were passing someone with a truck coming towards us a hundred feet away,  we were doing about 80 with a truck beside us so we could not pull back into that lane.   The roads here are the most dangerous I have ever seen.  I do like the place a lot though.  I think anyone would be happy living here.

[2tallbill]

People really don't appreciate fire escapes until they need one...

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