With this salary you can survive easily. Option -2 is better , to get 7500 house allowance. One of my friend living in Wakra(just 10 min drive from mesaieed), he is paying 4000 for 02 bed room home. You can easily get appartment in 3000-4000 riyals. Since mesaieed is industrial city, people prefer wakra for living. Even at mesaieed you can get 02 bed rooms apparment in similar rates. With 7500 you can easily spend complete month including housing and grocerry. Here petrol cost 1 riyal / liter, therefore, driving is not issue. cars are cheap due to no taxes.