Livinginsaudiarabia.org Website Review

This website (Living in Saudi Arabia) is dedicated to all of those expatriates working and living in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A land of many opportunities and at the same time many disappointments. all evil as some would say, and something that some would say the Saudi’s have more than their fair share of due to the Oil found But this wealth has led to an opportunity for many of us to come and work in this ultra-religious and very private society. For some this is an adventure and a chance to mix with people with a very different background and culture whilst for others it is a chore of immense If you are living in Saudi Arabia and from the west then you are probably living in a comfortable villa on a western compound with the facilities that would normally be found on a small holiday camp in the Costa Del Sol. You probably have a salary that you would have only dreamed of if you were back home and to cap it all you have zero tax to pay and are enjoying free accommodation and schooling also as part At the other end of the scale you could be from a poor part of India and have managed to scra*e together and borrow enough to get yourself a job in Saudi Arabia as a domestic in some large subcontracting company in KSA. You may have found yourself thrown into an untidy and overcrowded dormitory where you are  locked away at night to protect yourself from yourself, woken in the morning to be bused to work and escorted everywhere you go. Your salary although large for back home is totally inadequate for you to do anything beyond your dormitory and You may also be a maid working for a wealth family in Saudi Arabia with spacious living quarters, a friendly and helpful family who value you and treat you with respect, conversely you may have to share a room akin to a cupboard with another maid, se*ually abused and threatened that you will be arrested if you try to run away and your family will cease to get your valuable wages that they rely on to real gamble if you are not familiar with who you are going to work for, less so for people from the west, but those from less affluent