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Balzac
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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:24 am Post subject: Living in KSA |
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| ginger123 wrote: |
Can anyone tell me again pleases, how they'd determined Saudi middle class?
I lived there for sometime but couldn't distinguish or tell the difference between Saudi social classes. |
In a few words basically: Sunnis with government jobs or a private income.
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plumpy nut
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| Any other Saudi optimists besides "cnthaiksarok"? There may be an assumption that the Saudis have made great bounds in stabilizing the economy looking forward to oil prices rising in some useful immediate future. I don't think the future looks good. I've yet to see any indicator that says there is going to be a rising demand for Saudi oil. With Saudis running and working at all the little marts, pumping gas, cleaning the government offices that remain open and some of the palaces, there is going to be little need for learning "international" English. ESL teachers in Saudi Arabia will be working at a little above Thai wages in the future. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| What will you be doing, Plump One ? Teaching English in China ? |
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bigdurian
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Location: Flashing my lights right behind you!
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bigdurian
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| ginger123 wrote: |
Can anyone tell me again pleases, how they'd determined Saudi middle class?
I lived there for sometime but couldn't distinguish or tell the difference between Saudi social classes. |
I wondered about where the original article came from. On the one hand, you have a guy who used to travel to London once our twice a year, presumably with the family in tow, and then on the other hand, you have the same guy asking his family to use the car less.
Let's say a tank of gas costs around 50 SAR, and you cut back from two tanks a week to one, it's a saving of 50 SAR a week. Have things really got that bad that people have to do this? I just don't see it.
I've done holidays in London with my family and they don't come cheap. It just seems like going from one extreme to the other, when you have to worry about £10, after having spent thousands.....
Maybe it's a true story, maybe not. |
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revilo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:45 pm Post subject: Bayt.com |
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Bayt.com did a poll for its site. The topic was "How long have you been unemployed?" It's not official or scientific, but the results were kind of disturbing.
"I am employed" was response of 22%
"1 to 3 months" was response of 17.8%
"More than a year" was response of 27.4%
Earth is getting to be more like a prison. |
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