Small city? Soran barely qualifies as a village. It's in the middle of nowhere, 3 hours from Erbil, 2 hours from the Iranian border. The people are friendly, but there is NOTHING to do.
I'm guessing you're asking because you've been offered a job at the university. Well, the 4 teachers i know who started the problem were all raging alcoholic (i mean in a good way). One was writing a book. One was fluent in Kurdish. Even then, they all left after their 1 year contract was up (now it's a 2 year contract).Since then, the university has had major issues in teacher retention, partly because of the remoteness of Soran, partly because of the management