And keyed word 'livingcost'. Maybe you can have a read some of the thrad on below link :

http://www.qatarliving.com/searchresults?domains=www.qatarliving.com&Q=l...

 

My husband's company only pay once a year flight to the UK, while i am originally from Indonesia. So every year we always forked out an extra flight for going back to my side of family. 

 

Travel locally here depend where you are travel and what sorts of acommodation you rather prefer. Then that would affect your expenses.

 

SUV would be depend on the car what you getting .. you can get SUV for just under 100.000 QR and up. Most families i know normally have 1 SUV and 1 non SUV. The wife will take the SUV for ferrying the kid/s while husband used the other car to go to work and back. I would say you will to have at least 1 SUV in the family ... during winter time there are alot of group going to the desert for dune bashing.

 

Housing provided by the company would be a big plus. Make sure they not giving you an allowance ... it would be a big plus knowing you dont have to get through headache thinking about the rent raise.