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meri
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600-700SR ? Maybe there is a special rate for foreigners living on compounds. I have never managed to exceed 360SR with my family (5), i.e. at least 2/3 AC units on 24hrs a day in the summer months (May-Sept), plus fans. Not to mention, TV, computers etc.
In the cooler months, when people are out at work/school it is rarely above 150SR, usually less. |
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Cleopatra
Joined: 28 Jun 2003
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Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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| If you got behind in paying it , they would turn it off and it would take DAYS to get it restored. |
It's hardly unreasonable for utilities companies to shut off services when bills remain unpaid. It never happened to me, but it did to a few colleagues of mine - but they were several months behind in their payments before the electricity finally got switched off.
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| PMU even allowed it to be turned off in the summer when no one was in the villa, |
Quite right too. I can think of few things more hideously wasteful than leaving your AC running while you are out of the country for 2 or 3 months. Sure, it's not pleasant returning to a hot apartment, but it cools down pretty quickly when you put the AC back on. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Dear Cleopatra,
I can't speak about Mia's case, but I had colleagues whose electricity was turned off in the summer when they had NO air-conditioning running.
But the fridge WAS running, and you should have smelled what that was like when they got back from holiday. Took quite a while to clean, too.
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Mia Xanthi
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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Location: why is my heart still in the Middle East while the rest of me isn't?
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| Yes, the problem with the electricity being turned off was with the refrigerator and with clothes getting moldy due to humidity. Leaving a villa without any ac running in the summer may seem wasteful, but it can be risky to furniture and especially electronics in a free=standing villa. |
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veiledsentiments
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Location: USA
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I know of people in Abu Dhabi and Dubai that lost all their electronics, furniture, and most of the clothing in their closets because they didn't want to pay to leave the AC on... and this was in flats...
It cost them much more to replace what was destroyed...
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desultude
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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My electric bll ran into 600 -700 riyals each month in the summer in the Eastern Province.
If you got behind in paying it , they would turn it off and it would take DAYS to get it restored. PMU even allowed it to be turned off in the summer when no one was in the villa, so people often came back to horrible surprises.
Then, there were the deductions for the phanton "unpaid electric bills" --- I had 700 SAR deducted over a bill I had paid, and another colleague had even more deducted from her salary for a paid bill. The university told us to pay through a representative who just took off with the money, leaving our bills unpaid, and of course the university had to recoup the losses through our salaries, not their own accounts. And there was no way to get the money back once it had been deducted. |
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| It's hardly unreasonable for utilities companies to shut off services when bills remain unpaid. It never happened to me, but it did to a few colleagues of mine - but they were several months behind in their payments before the electricity finally got switched off. |
Yes, I came back in September and my electricity had been cut as the bill hadn't been paid for 2 months- the two months I was out of country!
The other woman in question paid a bill for 900 SR for a month when she had been there two weeks. She paid it but appealed the amount, then they took it from her check, then they made her pay it again! Two weeks' electricity cost her 2700 SR, or over $700.
The individual faculty member who were robbed by the property manager had to then pay their bills again. This past year they seemed to get the amounts closer to reality (the average bill being well below 150 SR). But if there is a question about anything, it will fall on the faculty to rectify the problem.
While they really were billing at 700-900 SR, we know from experience and from comparisons that we were being righteously robbed. But what can you do? (hint- you can not go there or you can leave, once you are there you have little redress for any problems).
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desultude
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Any good employer in KSA will pick up the tab for your utilities. The phone you will have to pay yourself. The fact that your housing costs are zero means that your real income is quite high. No tax either - and a cheap place to live. Where else can you have shirts laundered for 30 US cents ? (Hail not Dhahranm where it is a scandalous 85 US cents !) |
It is hard to make a convincing statement starting with a clearly impossible premise. |
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Missteacher
Joined: 07 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:31 pm Post subject: Jobs at Ha'il University? |
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Hi,
I am very interesting in a teaching position at Ha'il University. I have lived in the kingdom before, but never worked there. I would like to know how difficult it is to get a job in Ha'il? Would I have any problem bringing my children with me? Is it dificult to find schooling in Ha'il for children? Also, what about an occasional babysitter? And finally, I am married, but my husband mostly come with me. But, would it be a problem to bring him over later on to visit us?
Thanks - oh and if anyone knows of a direct contact that I can send my CV to, please pm me! |
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