You'll save more in Saudi. You'll get used to the "limited" movement especially if you're working for Aramco. Otherwise, your world is smaller than coming to Doha. Typical compounds/villas would cost you 65,000QR-80,000Qr per year instead of 200,000QR++ here in Doha.

"Difficult" to get a decent drink, if you're into drinking. But you could always hop to Bahrain (1.5 hour trip from Khobar/dhahran).

You could read some more differences here:

http://lifeonthespot.com/blog/middle_east/saudi/



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