Lifestyle:

By the end of the year 1999 there was a series on Egyptian television based on a novel called "Hawanem Garden City" meaning the great dames of garden city.

This fact is not stated to drive attention to television or literature or anything of the sort but to reflect a picture of how the public sees Garden City and its habitats.Garden City holds a large number of foreigners and their embassies, the Germans established their embassy first then came the English then the Italians and so on.

The foreign approach to Garden City is not the whole picture: until world war 2 there were more villas in Garden City than anything else and the few apartment buildings were 3 or 4 stories high at the most. The people inside those structures were mostly pashas who chose Garden City for its closeness to Downtown and where things were happening. The prime bankers and doctors of Egypt chose the place for the same reason, the doctors in particular for the walking distance between them and the hospitals of "Fouad Al Awal" and "Kasr Al Aini".

In the present day Garden City is pretty much the same, of-course some apartment buildings are a lot higher than 3 or 4 stories but the social class of the people is still similar. There is no commercial approach to Garden City at all except for a few bazaars and things of the sort close to the hotels and that helps to keep the Neighborhood's low profile.

Crime rate:
Almost unmentionable a very low crime rate even though the neighborhood is surrounded by lower class districts, but the security level specially around the embassies scares the trouble away.

Population:
Garden city's population in terms of person per square kilometer is increasing very slowly, it is a stable Neighborhood with a stable population.

Nightlife:
Only in the hotels of garden city but most people just cross the bridge to the island of Zamalek, the island offers a wide variety of places to go and things to do. Anything from the average coffee shop going through bars, pubs and restaurants up to the most exotic clubs in the country can be found in Zamalek and with numbers.