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Decent compound in Dhahran or Khobar
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Tyke



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PostPosted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:07 pm    Post subject: Decent compound in Dhahran or Khobar Reply with quote
Hi
I have been offered a teaching post through one of the contractors recruiting for Saudi Aramco. I am required to source my own accommodation.

Can anybody recommend a decent compound in Dhahran / Khobar? I need a good 50m pool and a gym. Possibly with some "Western style" social life. What are the current rules regarding bringing on guests of the fairer gender?

How much rent am I likely to have to pay and what sort of contract length?

I was out before in Kingdom with BAE - but over 10 years ago and I understand that Saudi has changed ever so slightly now.

Any info greatly appreciated.

I know what it's like for you guys out there - keep the chin up.

Tyke
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scot47



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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2010 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Eurovillage. There is a website
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Asda



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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2010 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's also Jazala compound as well....
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scot47



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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2010 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For the kind of place that you will get for the housing allowance paid to an English teacher, you may have to lower your expectations. A 50-meter pool ?

We are at the bottom of the heap when it comes to "expatriates" (ie migrant workers with light skins)
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Asda



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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
scot47 wrote:
For the kind of place that you will get for the housing allowance paid to an English teacher, you may have to lower your expectations. A 50-meter pool ?

We are at the bottom of the heap when it comes to "expatriates" (ie migrant workers with light skins)


Dear Uncle Scot, one of the few times I'll have to disagree with you, unless I have the wrong end of the stick (if I have, please forgive me). Try telling that to the Asian sub-continental labourers sweeping the streets!!

And it's metre!!! Laughing
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scot47



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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Read MY definition of expatriates. I was poking fun at the whole concept of "expatriate" which has come to mean "someone with a white skin who works in the Middle East as a migrant worker". The types who use this terminology always consciously or without thinking exclude the vast numbers of Asian and other migrant workers living and working in the country !

Everyone else in EU writes "meter". Why should you Anglos be different ! Napoleon and the Metric System WILL triumph over Perfidious Albion ! Haste the Day !

"And ve vil fors yu tu rashonalaiz yur speling !"
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Asda



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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
scot47 wrote:
Read MY definition of expatriates. I was poking fun at the whole concept of "expatriate" which has come to mean "someone with a white skin who works in the Middle East as a migrant worker". The types who use this terminology always consciously or without thinking exclude the vast numbers of Asian and other migrant workers living and working in the country !

Everyone else in EU writes "meter". Why should you Anglos be different ! Napoleon and the Metric System WILL triumph over Perfidious Albion ! Haste the Day !

"And ve vil fors yu tu rashonalaiz yur speling !"


Oh! I was unaware of that evolution of the meaning. I have heard professional Indians and Pakistanis described as 'expats' as well.

As for the Neopolitan system ruling over the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so long as Mr Cameron (Eton & Oxford, don't you know...) and perhaps, one day, Mr Griffin(?) have anything to do with it...not on one's nelly!! Confused
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veiledsentiments



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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
scot47 wrote:
Everyone else in EU writes "meter". Why should you Anglos be different ! Napoleon and the Metric System WILL triumph over Perfidious Albion !

Really? I thought it was just us 'mericans who spelled it "meter."

VS
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