I hate to say it, but FlyingCroc summed up perfectly my impressions of Egypt, which I also visited as a tourist. Although I am widely travelled and home is an underdeveloped "third world" country, it left such a bad taste in my mouth that I am not even sure I would return as a tourist again, much less live there. Near the end, I didn't even want to talk to anybody anymore. A constant fight all the way. It really brings out the ugliness in a person. I have a few Egyptian friends, but Cairo is a hard-core experience.