Hi Keptin Flak.
Try and take all the good and the bad about the place in, sifting the wheat from the chaff! but my recommendation is if you have the opportunity to fly in PNG, take it. The flying is fantastic.
After 37 years in PNG, I do not have too many regrets, and over those years did not experience any violence against myself during events that included Okuk's deaths riot, (I flew his funeral entourage around the Highlands) the Sandline riots and a few other disturbances of note. The wife was held up at gunpoint once and her daily taking removed, her shop was ransacked around 12 times in one year, a car stolen, but apart from that, life was quite pleasant.
Reading the weekend NZ Herald newspaper, I note an article stating that one in three NZeders are affected by violence yearly. I think that Oz may be as bad and IMHO, PNG has not reached the degree of violence in southern countries.
Give it a go and even zexpat will give you a bed for a few nights to help you get your bearings.
