Update: I've now been in Doha five days and have been looking at prices of various things. While some things are definitely much more expensive than they are in the UAE (Parmesan cheese almost double), many things, if not most, seem to be the same, if you are willing to look around just a bit. Milk and fruit appear to about the same, as long as you're buying regionally local to the GCC. Many name brand breakfast cereals are more expensive at a place such as Mega Mart, but Carrefour prices seem to be similar to Carrefour prices in the UAE. This was a pleasant surprise. I was even more surprised to see many things, mainly at Carrefour, cheaper in Doha than in the UAE.
Traffic, on the other hand, has lived up to everyone's dire warnings. I feel like I need to be a NASCAR driver (or, perhaps, a demolition derby driver) every time I get in the car.
Update: I've now been in Doha five days and have been looking at prices of various things. While some things are definitely much more expensive than they are in the UAE (Parmesan cheese almost double), many things, if not most, seem to be the same, if you are willing to look around just a bit. Milk and fruit appear to about the same, as long as you're buying regionally local to the GCC. Many name brand breakfast cereals are more expensive at a place such as Mega Mart, but Carrefour prices seem to be similar to Carrefour prices in the UAE. This was a pleasant surprise. I was even more surprised to see many things, mainly at Carrefour, cheaper in Doha than in the UAE.
Traffic, on the other hand, has lived up to everyone's dire warnings. I feel like I need to be a NASCAR driver (or, perhaps, a demolition derby driver) every time I get in the car.