"This last round was it and I decided to pack up and leave to Kuwait," said Ghandour, 38, an interior designer who lives in Corniche al-Mazraa.
Her west Beirut neighbourhood was turned into a battleground earlier this month between militants loyal to the Shiite opposition group Hezbollah and Sunni supporters of Lebanon's ruling coalition.
The violence, sparked by a government crackdown on Hezbollah that was eventually rescinded, left at least 65 dead and marked the worst sectarian unrest since the end of the country's 1975-1990 civil war.
But although the guns have fallen silent and negotiations between the rival camps on ending a presidential stalemate have been held in Qatar since Friday, many Lebanese have grown disillusioned with their leaders and expect little.
"From the first day I opened my eyes this country has been at war and I've had enough," said Ghandour, whose father is Sunni and mother Shiite.
"If our leaders wanted to agree, they could have done so on their own land rather than by going to Qatar."
Salim Fanous, a resident of Ras an-Nabaa, a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighbourhood that was also the scene of fierce clashes, said he held out little hope for lasting peace.
"Our leaders are all liars and traitors working for their own ends," he said. "They have been playing with us for more than 30 years and we all know that this is all a political game.
"People are disgusted with their lies, they must take us for idiots," added Fanous, as he stood near a bullet-riddled white jeep with flat tyres -- a stark reminder of the latest violence.
"They play with us like a bottle of soda that you shake until it foams up and then dies down."
The anger and exhaustion of many Lebanese from the constant turmoil in their country has been summed up by demonstrations held along the road leading to Beirut's international airport by non-governmental organisations.
"If you don't agree, don't come back," read signs held up by protesters, some of them handicapped from the civil war.
"Agree, shame on you," read another message to the bickering leaders, while a third said, "We want to raise our children in Lebanon".
"I have lived through many wars, beginning with World War II and I am sorry to say that these people (the leaders) have no honour, they have no brains," said Anees Suleiman Abu-Hassan, 87, a resident of the mainly Druze town of Shwayfat, southeast of Beirut. "If I had fuel, I would burn them all."
A Hezbollah flag was hanging defiantly on Tuesday at an entrance to the town where pictures of young Druze men killed in the recent fighting have been plastered on buildings and cars.
"We are all nauseous by what we are seeing and can't take it anymore," said Jihan, who is Druze and whose husband is Shiite Muslim.
"Can you imagine that just recently we commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the start of the civil war," said Jihan, who did not want her last name used.
"Now our children wait for the evening news to see what is happening in the country.
"If the politicians would just leave us be, we could live in peace together," she added. "That's why we don't want them back, and if they dare return from Qatar without an agreement, we'll beat them back onto the plane."
