"anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes in Doha would know that you were going to get ripped off something rotten by UDC,"

Well, so you'd think, but I guess there were people out there thinking 'this time it will be different'.

About a month after getting off the plane I knew the last thing I'd want to do is sign a mortgage for anything in this country.

I still have lingering doubts about keeping money in the bank here, much less about holding the title to a property built on a sand bar.

But to get back to the discussion at hand...

There's no way that this will make it into the mainstream newspapers. The PTB are too involved to risk writing bad things about UDC or The Pearl.

Only recently the Gulf Times published a glowing tribute to UDC and it's wonderful District Cooling system. Needless to say no mention of costs...

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=299985...

The media won't be touching this story - perhaps to do so might fall into the 'erring scribes' category.....