Yes I'm from Florida and yes photography pays *some* of our bills ;)

Husband got contract to work in Doha so I am thinking the expensive part of living arrangements there will all depend on what his contract stipulates.

Thanks for the real estate agent contact mdobrasz, will see if we can start lining up some visits to different areas and take a look at villas vs condo... not sure what is best for us yet. I think given we are going to try to bring our 2 motorcycles a house with a garage will be best...

Nic, thanks for the advice, I think we'll probably opt to be closet to airport than to drive 1 hour to get to and from work. So far I have seen very little "real" pictures of Doha, mostly plans and projection images of what it *will* look like so we figure we're in for huge construction site in the desert ;)