We are in the process of moving - wife and son remain in Bahrain whilst I look for a place (back to Bahrain at weekends).
You will have a shock with rentals and quality of accommodation. We have friends renting fantastic apartments in Juffair for BD 650 - but there is NOTHING like that in Doha for the price. We are living in a four bed compound villa in Bahrain - beautiful garden, facilities etc for BD1,300 - can find nothing comparible in Doha and been commuting/looking for 3 months now. We have resigned ourselves to having no front garden and a concrete square as our rear garden! Quality of finishings v poor too.
As for areas, I am looking at places near my work and school so not really relevant to you. Friends have recently moved to Beverly Hills Al Rayyan and they reckon its good. Large compound with lots of people, very large pool, cinema, shop, coffee shop etc so chance your wife could socialise there. You would have to commute a little but West Bay not too difficut to reach from there.
We are in the process of moving - wife and son remain in Bahrain whilst I look for a place (back to Bahrain at weekends).
You will have a shock with rentals and quality of accommodation. We have friends renting fantastic apartments in Juffair for BD 650 - but there is NOTHING like that in Doha for the price. We are living in a four bed compound villa in Bahrain - beautiful garden, facilities etc for BD1,300 - can find nothing comparible in Doha and been commuting/looking for 3 months now. We have resigned ourselves to having no front garden and a concrete square as our rear garden! Quality of finishings v poor too.
As for areas, I am looking at places near my work and school so not really relevant to you. Friends have recently moved to Beverly Hills Al Rayyan and they reckon its good. Large compound with lots of people, very large pool, cinema, shop, coffee shop etc so chance your wife could socialise there. You would have to commute a little but West Bay not too difficut to reach from there.