it was 2004 when I first heard the country Qatar, moving from Singapore to here. We have to google it from the map. Anyway, your questions will generate different answers if directed to different expats here- professionals,laborers, domestic helpers or otherwise, just tourist. As you go along with lots of various replies coming from almost all sorts of nationalities, maybe you, being a Qatari could realize now how these people living (or say surviving) Qatar one day at a time. I applaud your intentions to make your home country a better place to live not just for expats but for your own selves as citizens and there could be no greater power to change your own nation into a wonderful place country but your own citizens. So good luck and hope to see you a better leader one day for this promising country of yours and your effort for change will not be a loss. As what our own hero said: "The children are the hope of the nation-Jose P. Rizal".

"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman