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laylow · Joined: 12 Feb 2011 Posts: 37

I worked in Kuwait a few years ago, and I don't know why, but the country seems to be less organized in everything (work-related issues, country's infrastructure, layout of streets and buildings, etc, etc) when compared to other Gulf countries. Why is that? Not trying to disrespect the country or Kuwaitis in general, as there were a couple things I liked better about Kuwait. Just curious to know why the difference? Is it improving? In general, the teaching positions don't seem to be as good in terms of organization and overall enjoyability. Has the country improved or maybe it's all in my head!!

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

I agree with you. It was the one country that I was happy to leave and had no interest in returning.

Is there ever an answer to a "why" question like this?

VS

middeastgirl · Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 45

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

If you notice, I post on most of the branches. It is a public board. If you don't like it, please feel free to not read my posts and cause irritation to your life... or perhaps that is why I do it. Cool

If you were paying attention to the original poster, he too is a person who worked in Kuwait in the past and didn't like it. So why didn't you bitch at him for mentioning it?

VS

middeastgirl · Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 45

Sleepwalker · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 454 Location: Reading the screen

I worked in Kuwait years ago and although I had no problem with the students, it was the inept management that drove me out. I also didn't like the smallness of the place and the expense of getting out for a weekend.

I was back for a few days earlier this year and it's more built up with much more traffic, many more malls and much more expensive than before - other than that, things were the same.

moonpie · Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 71

Middleeastgirl is right. Kuwait and the Gulf countries is an obsession for VS. Dave's cafe has a total of about 240 pages of posts for all of China's English market, yet vs. has over 770 pages of personal posts for the Arabian Gulf area. Probably stating that vs. is constantly thinking endlessly about the area would be an understatement.

Moon

johnslat · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject:

If you think that posters posting a lot about a place they don't/didn't like is "funny." "a fixation." or an "obsession." I'd advise never checking out the Saudi board.

It's chock full of "funny, fixated, obsessed" posters, ones there now and ones who were there in the past.

"Dave's cafe has a total of about 240 pages of posts for all of China's English market, yet vs. has over 770 pages of personal posts for the Arabian Gulf area."

Hmm, there might be those who'd think that taking the time and trouble to do such "research" could be indicative of something closely resembling fixation/obsession, as well.

Regards,
John