Doha life

Beans81
By Beans81

Hey, thinking about moving to Doha in August. I hear that its kind of boring! Is this true? What is there to do? Is there much culture and life?

 

Please help!

By dweller• 18 Feb 2008 17:49
dweller

with Novita. It's what you make it.

You don't put anything in you won't get anything out.

By Withnail• 18 Feb 2008 17:37
Rating: 5/5
Withnail

if you're married and happy to hang with your significant other, then you'll be fine.

 

if you want a piss up and party every night, probably not your place.

 

culture?  depends what you are looking for.  there are some museams but they are nothing special.  there is some local culture (camel races, a little fort here and there) but you will quickly exhaust those.

 

if you can tap into the Qatar Foundation community, you might get some of the culture you are looking for.  VCU occasionally has exhibits (a henry moore exhibit is currently here.  they have some of this sketches and someone from the british council was here talking about the artist).  georgetown university also hosts regular talks about various international and political issues - they are pretty good.  they had a talk yesterday with John Esposito, who is an expert on Islam that was very good (if you google him you will see he is a heavy hitter).

 

If you have good jobs lined up, you'll be fine.   

 

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"Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day." Withnail & I

By anonymous• 18 Feb 2008 17:31
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

we have :

Mall but without shops

beach but water is dirty

clubs but crawded and almost no activies

so if u like the boring

roads but will killer driver and holes

disco but no girls

 

come and join us

By anonymous• 18 Feb 2008 17:25
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

Doha is not kind of boring, it is the boring itself

come on i want to escape from here and some crazy ppl want to come

my dear take my honest advise never think to come to that place

By novita77• 18 Feb 2008 17:07
novita77

beans, life is what you make it. Everywhere you go there will be pros and cons. Good luck.

By techdoctor• 18 Feb 2008 17:04
Rating: 4/5
techdoctor

we have all here in Qatar... 

Only in limited quantity!

 

"Life is like a bicycle, if it's too easy - you're probably going down :)"

By dragonfly212• 18 Feb 2008 17:00
dragonfly212

we have all here in Qatar...

 

Everybody is right and Everybody is wrong, its depend where you stand

By DaRuDe• 18 Feb 2008 16:53
Rating: 5/5
DaRuDe

 yea sure clubing discos bars shopping malls and special femae gyms and friends

what else you want. a car to drive around. 

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By Beans81• 18 Feb 2008 16:51
Beans81

Wow,

 

you're really selling  it!

 

so.. no culture? paint me a picture... what can i expect to do for fun?

By DaRuDe• 18 Feb 2008 16:35
Rating: 5/5
DaRuDe

 No its not boring at all.

you sure will enjoy it once you land here. 

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By philip• 18 Feb 2008 16:31
philip

culture..NO

dust...YES

crazy drivers who want to kill you...YES

so hot that you cant even step outside for most of the year...YES

 

come and have some fun with us.

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