Riyadh Houses?????

Alliecat wrote:

Come on over and enjoy while the black gold lasts...

Oh, it's going to last for a while but I would say come over while jobs are still being offered to foreigners.  The 'Saudization' effort is in full-swing here and you never know when the bottom will fall out.

The Saudization effort has been ongoing for ages and it was there when I first came to live and work here, in 1979 too. Its just an eyewash that ends up in some "nice" round nunbvers being presented to people in high places. It even goes up and down like a yo-yo sometimes, based on needs and critical projects.

I have seen many organizations hiring locals just to conform to the numbers and allow them to do as they please and take a paycheck home for free. Majority of the effort in terms of development and progress is contributed by the expats, without any doubt. It was the same in 1979, its still the same in 2010.

The oil will never dry up. Chatting to a colleague on the Saudia flight back to Riyadh from Jeddah last week he amazed me by stating that there is a very stroing theory thats bveen floating around professional circles that oil is not really a fossil fuel at all but an element thats found below the surface oif the earth no different rto water, minerals or other metals. He went on to say that major oil companies in the west want it to be accepted as a fossil fuel for their own selfish mneeds and purposes. he claimed that some sciuentists who espoused this theory and were in the process of making it public were eliminated James Bond style.

Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen these days. Many clkaim man never stepped on the moon cos the pic of the flasg shown with Aremstrong was fluttering where there was no wind. The 911 theories espoused by the likes of Michael Moore and others are also astonishingly debatable. The wars in the Mid East, the Palestinian conflict, and almost every single event on the planet has some link to some strange inexplainable theory that boggles the mind.

Man, sure has a tremendous abiloity to boggle his own mind.

Initially, I came here on a 2 year contract with a budget in my mind to go back home and start all over. Its been 30 now and I'm still trying hard to burn by boats behind me. It will never happen until they show me the door and its rather late in the dfay for me to start all over back home now. hence, I will simply flow with the tide and land where the sands take me.

London, perhaps...? Who knows. The gals are huddling over a prospect of seeking immigration there under the Highly Skilled Immigration Program and also counting their poennies to try and buya small house in one of the suburbs there. I would certainly find it most comfortable to retire there. The orderliness, kindness, courtesies, ground rules and basic infrastructure is worth more than all this black stuff as lon as we have some black stuff stashed away in some pillowcase.

I rest my case...