Toyota2005,
What surprised you in Qatar, surprises most of the western expats that come here.
If you end up coming here, you would probably go through a similar mind status "evolution" process, as following:
- First you identify obvious areas for improvement and wonder why nobody has done it before;
- Then you propose improvements and try to bring your ideas across to those you think have the power to consider them and eventual implement them;
- Then you realize that either no one will listen to you, get offended by the fact you are criticizing the nation or pretend that they listen but wont do anything about;
- After a period of time, going through the previous step repeatedly innumerous times, people tend to give up and accept things as they are, rapidly shifting their mind sets from active professionals to passive individuals waiting for their salary on a monthly basis.
- Soon after you will conclude that you will be better off by taking the passive position (no stress, no struggles, no extra efforts) than the proactive one (you'll just be shut down by the system who does not allow criticism and/or acknowledgement of problems).
Unfortunately, I am not being satiric here. The wealth and income of this nation is not directly linked with hard work, it's simply offered by the mother nature as it pours freely out of their soil.
In such environment, "who cares" is the general mot that “drives” people.
Coming back to your astonishment on the archaic Doha road design, although it is slowly improving, it is obviously outdated and no longer serves the current traffic loads.
The popularity of roundabouts is the consequence of the abnormal and enormous amount of time that takes, from the conception and design to the actual implementation, particularly if the project is government owned.
The roundabouts are just a tinny tip of the iceberg of the malfunction of the system here.
If you do come here, be prepared to discover things that you would never imagine, they still exist in an apparent fast track developing nation.
Toyota2005,
What surprised you in Qatar, surprises most of the western expats that come here.
If you end up coming here, you would probably go through a similar mind status "evolution" process, as following:
- First you identify obvious areas for improvement and wonder why nobody has done it before;
- Then you propose improvements and try to bring your ideas across to those you think have the power to consider them and eventual implement them;
- Then you realize that either no one will listen to you, get offended by the fact you are criticizing the nation or pretend that they listen but wont do anything about;
- After a period of time, going through the previous step repeatedly innumerous times, people tend to give up and accept things as they are, rapidly shifting their mind sets from active professionals to passive individuals waiting for their salary on a monthly basis.
- Soon after you will conclude that you will be better off by taking the passive position (no stress, no struggles, no extra efforts) than the proactive one (you'll just be shut down by the system who does not allow criticism and/or acknowledgement of problems).
Unfortunately, I am not being satiric here. The wealth and income of this nation is not directly linked with hard work, it's simply offered by the mother nature as it pours freely out of their soil.
In such environment, "who cares" is the general mot that “drives” people.
Coming back to your astonishment on the archaic Doha road design, although it is slowly improving, it is obviously outdated and no longer serves the current traffic loads.
The popularity of roundabouts is the consequence of the abnormal and enormous amount of time that takes, from the conception and design to the actual implementation, particularly if the project is government owned.
The roundabouts are just a tinny tip of the iceberg of the malfunction of the system here.
If you do come here, be prepared to discover things that you would never imagine, they still exist in an apparent fast track developing nation.