I recently moved here with my husband, and there certainly are pros and cons.
Food - there are quite a lot of things that you can't easily get here, you only realise it when you need something specifically and cannot find it.
On the whole you can get most things, there is just not the variety. No Bacon is a major thing, and eating out can be exceedingly cheap or very expensive.
If you want to have a drink with your meal that is when it gets exensive, we recently went for a curry in a hotel so we could have a beer with our meal, the alcohol bill was 5x the cost of the food, and we really did not have that much to drink!
But the salaries are much better, but there are still some drawbacks to working, dependent on the company you work for. I work for a Qatari run organisation, and the level of behaviour to non-Qataris leaves a lot to be desired. If I had experienced something like this in the UK I would have been in my rights to put in a grievance against my employer, but here there are very few labour laws. Basically you just have to have a thick skin.
If you plan to work, I would suggest doing so under your husbands sponsorship. Cannot go into too much detail but it is much better for you.
Another thing, I thought I would have met more people since being here, I have made the effort to get to know people and acquire friends, but it just has not happened the way I thought it would. I think a lot of expats work such long hours they don't have the energy for much of a social life.
I don't want to appear too negative, but these are the realities, I think that if you move here with a positive attitude you will be fine.
If you want to ask me a question I can be more specific.
I recently moved here with my husband, and there certainly are pros and cons.
Food - there are quite a lot of things that you can't easily get here, you only realise it when you need something specifically and cannot find it.
On the whole you can get most things, there is just not the variety. No Bacon is a major thing, and eating out can be exceedingly cheap or very expensive.
If you want to have a drink with your meal that is when it gets exensive, we recently went for a curry in a hotel so we could have a beer with our meal, the alcohol bill was 5x the cost of the food, and we really did not have that much to drink!
But the salaries are much better, but there are still some drawbacks to working, dependent on the company you work for. I work for a Qatari run organisation, and the level of behaviour to non-Qataris leaves a lot to be desired. If I had experienced something like this in the UK I would have been in my rights to put in a grievance against my employer, but here there are very few labour laws. Basically you just have to have a thick skin.
If you plan to work, I would suggest doing so under your husbands sponsorship. Cannot go into too much detail but it is much better for you.
Another thing, I thought I would have met more people since being here, I have made the effort to get to know people and acquire friends, but it just has not happened the way I thought it would. I think a lot of expats work such long hours they don't have the energy for much of a social life.
I don't want to appear too negative, but these are the realities, I think that if you move here with a positive attitude you will be fine.
If you want to ask me a question I can be more specific.
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