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The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
A Christian colleague of mine told me that her mother used to love living in Saudi Arabia (where her father works) because it was a life of relaxation/luxury, she said that she loved it too, "the best years of our life were in the Kingdom, it was a life of relaxation" she said , I was puzzled.
I would be too.
She was not the only one who told me a such thing.
I do also recall a very westernized Sudanese girl (studied in a British school) told me that she enjoyed life in KSA (her father worked there too). She also said that the religious police there never dared to harass her and her mom since they were seen as western foreigners (they lived in a compound for westerners), all they had to do is to reply in English and the police would sigh and leave them alone. In fact, the police doesn't have the right there under any circumstance to address to the women if there was a man among them. My colleague told me that they never harassed them, and if they had any complaint related to some dress code then they would say it to her father to adjust the issue.
Usually single guys working there don't last too long, they just go there, work for few years, and come back to Lebanon with a small fortune, a lot of them get so depressed to the extent that they would return after a year. Very positive feedback I got from those guys about life in KSA.
But the stories I heard from non-working members of families living there (where the father usually works) were totally different, yes they did hate some aspects of life there (having to wear the veils outside the compounds, praying times, religious police...etc) but they loved life there in general.
I think they enjoyed the compound life and the activities they were able to do there on a daily basis (swimming, parties, sports, gyms). My colleague literally said that it was heaven for her.
Last edited by The_Face_of_Boo on 27 May 2011, 1:26 pm, edited 5 times in total.
27 May 2011, 8:23 am
