Besides the points, this site together with the GR8 people on it give advice and answer alot of the questions new people have. In my case having accepted a job in qatar, without this site I would not know what to expect, or how to prepare for the new move. I admit to being mostly a lurker in not posting as much as reading past and present topics, but if this site was published as a book, it would be a besty selling travel guide.