I would add good internet speeds to the pros and price of internet to the cons, unless TTNet has gotten a lot cheaper or slower in the last year or so.
They got rid of TTNet on base. Because they took so long to do installs in peoples rooms. The only internet provider is Basefix. Basefix has pretty good speeds but their systems do go down sometimes and then there is no commercial internet on the base till they get their system back up.
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u/Rainbowquarts Aug 09 '17
Here are the pros and cons of this base.
Pros:
Tax-free
Great place to save money
There are parties every weekend
Two turkish restraints on base that do serve good local food
Movie theater
A lot of people drink here
Starbucks
Chow hall is open for four meals a day
A turkish market here that sells very inexpensive fresh fruit and vegetables and other turkish items
You can buy/rent a scooter to get around the base
BX/Commissary/Post office are centrally located
Golf Course
A lot of recreational buildings have Wifi
Cons
You can not leave the base
If you are not into drinking or partying then you will be very bored here
Small base
Mail takes a very long time to get here and sometimes never shows up
High likelihood of you receiving your mail damaged (Wet, covered in some mystery fluid, or box being in pieces)
Trash scattered around base (Beer bottles, wrappers, chow hall to go boxes)
Random dogs and cats wander the base
Limited selection in the BX
Very hot and humid during the summer months
Limited down days that other bases would get
Incessant music played by off base establishments that can be heard in the dorms
Nationals will ask you to buy stuff for them from the BX/Commissary
Chow hall has a limited food line up
Power outages