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[flying carpet]

Other than your savings, what have you, other than grown older, to show your life in KSA has not been been thrown away?

It is an important question for people coming, I think, because through one set of circumstances (divorce...) or another... people do lose all their money, sometimes.

[Stephen Jones]

Other than your savings, what have you, other than grown older, to show your life in KSA/USA/Spain/UK/Pluto/The Universe has not been been thrown away?

[cmp45]

Flying carpet since you raised this absurd topic do tell us your story! How have YOU wasted your life? ...wait....that was a retorical question,...save it for your diary!

[flying carpet]

Well, many will be able to talk about the travel opportunities they took, that may not have been possible in a 'normal' job. Seeing the World
would be one thing.

Perhaps you developed a network of very useful people, who are able to help you in the future... That sort of thing.

There must be something...

[cmp45]

[Van Norden]

[flying carpet]

There are many countries in the world that ESL teachers go and work in taking a salary cut to do so, because the conditions those countries are so good.

It is not unreasonable to say that the overwhelming majority of teachers in the KSA would leave sharpish, were they not greatly compensated in their pay for the living conditions that they endure.

Lets do the math:

sacrifice + $ = OK

Re-arranging the equation:

OK - $ = sacrifice

As you can see, if you take away your money you are left with human sacrifice.

What I hoped to find out, was whether you have managed to insert something into your own equation.

For example, learning to cook or to play the French Horn, or something - I don't know what. You tell me.

[Cleopatra]

Dear Floor Rug,

I think if you want to know anything about life here in KSA, come and live here. If that sounds too drastic, at least get opinions other than those of the competitive whiners on this board.

Personally, I dont' consider my years here to constitute 'human sacrifice' (???) I know it may surprise you to hear this, seeing as your only contact with KSA seems to have been on this board, but some of us actually quite like it here, and don't consider it to be some sort of endurance test. Nor would I say that 'conditions' in those countries where EFLers earn a pittance are really 'so good'. Would you?

[flying carpet]

Your Highness, I am delghted that your time in the KSA is a happy one. I am also intrigued.

Is it that you are attuned to a life of quiet reflection? Or perhaps you have an engaging hobby? Or is there some activity you participate in, that gives you considerable satsifaction?

I would like to know this thing that the happy people do in KSA.

[cmp45]

Flying carpet said:
I would like to know this thing that the happy people do in KSA.

The same as happy people all over the world do....

[Queen of Sheba]

[cmp45]

Q of S Said:
If you cant fathom the answer to a question like this outside of Saudi, you are certainly not going to be struck with the intelligence stick in Saudi. With these bizarre and fantastical questions, you can expect to be unhappy here, and there. Unicorns don't exist either.

Well put! Now that I have had a good laugh, I am going to bed...happy no less!

Sorry F. carpet, but you set yourself up in a big way!

[Stephen Jones]

[flying carpet]

Stephen Jones, you are as slippery as a Jesuit.

In countries outside of the KSA (rather than those ones inside) there is a wide variety of experience available. In the KSA, it could be argued, there is only a single experience, one numbing, incessant sensation. Is that correct? Perhaps you have found another sensation, or even many varieties of experience.

Anyway, I would like to hear from people what they do to be happy in the KSA. I hope it is not so competitive that people will not share that sort of information.

[Cleopatra]