To each his own, I suppose. Like some others have said, it's not a bad place to go out for an afternoon to get to wear civilian clothes and eat some real food, but i'd never want to live there. The novelty of riding a camel and visiting a tacky, highly flamable mall would wear off quickly and be replaced with loathing for the homicidal drivers, endless dirty strip malls, and general filth. The airport is particularly disgusting. Even with an impoverished Pakistani cleaning the bathroom full time, you still manage to end up with a literal pool of shit on the floor. Definitely not saying the Deid is a worse place to deploy than Kandahar, Bagram, etc, but the city itself is one of the last places on earth i'd want to PCS.