With todays exchange rate? Last year it was 7.38 to the GBP, today 4.94. Oppressed? not me, I'm rich. And on a serious note, I am rich. My husband works in a nice warm school and I got to come here with him. When the Brits are working on the Dukhan road and sleeping in labor camps, that's when we'll be oppressed. Although much more of Gordon Brown and you never know, it may happen...