wacky_baby said .. the reason that she wrote her post is to ask everyone whether it is culturally wrong to do that as they are new in the country."

- Yup, fine. And she's thanked everybody for the heads up.

"...try to go out on all bars and see for yourself how other people are openly flirting with each other with the girls in their almost nude outfits. "

- Which is precisely what the authorities are trying to implement the discipline. The other side of that argument is that curtailing freedoms will just motivate people to go elsewhere. Counterargument - you can leave, there's a queue waiting to take your place over here, etc,etc,etc.

Bottom line - do your research and shift your goal posts. If like me, had no time to do research before landing here, I observed by surroundings first and then shifted my goal posties.

/Didn't know anyone in Qatar, didn't know anything about Qatar save for that 4 page info sheet HR gave, no one I knew, knew anything about Qatar. Didn't even know where it was on the map, etc,etc.

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