I cannot believe that I have had so many replies on this post, first of all apologies for not replying on this post and thank you for all the times you folks have taken to reply to me with good intent.
I moved here in the last week of January 2016 and to say the least I was frustrated, annoyed with the rules and quite a lot of things even though I knew it was not going to be easy.
To put things in perspective, I am single and also I have some solid 10 years of work experience behind me in IT, even though it sounds like a cliche, I moved here not only for money but mostly for the experience, culture because why not I am 29 and single and I was hoping that I could do a MS at Qatar University.
I was put up in a nice hotel at Grand Qatar Palce for first 15days, even though I had figured a place to live, I decided to stay put in the hotel for 15days because they served really good continental breakfast which I enjoyed
Most of you folks got it right about the savings, Here is the breakdown about how I Want to spend and save
4000 - Rent [ 3BHK Villa in Al-Thumama ] - was lucky to find this place because it is about 1km walk to my workplace and really friendly and helpful European housemates
200 - Internet and Electricity bills
1000 - Food, I cook, eat out on some days, this includes the groceries.
500 - Taxi to work one way [ Considering summer is coming ]
1000 - Personal expenses
550 - Gym [ Elite Fitness Club ] - Expensive as HELL, but it is the only closest gym
I will be saving about 8750 , I must say I lead a very comfortable life for about 7k and I was aiming at about 7-8K of savings.
I must say, I almost thought of returning back and did not open my bags for about 10days, it was frustrating not being able to walk around, not having anyone to talk to but once I moved with into the Villa, the folks were really nice and I am enjoying living with them and I hope they feel likewise. Fortunately all three of them have a licensce because apparentely Europeans dont need to attend the test because of similar road rules
Some points if someone is planning to move to Doha
* Make sure you choose the best place to live in, it is important because you come to a different country altogether and after a tough day, home is the only place where you want to go to
* If you want people to talk to you, you need to be friendly and smile and talk and ask questions
* Dont over think what people assume of your country, understand that stereotyping is common everywhere
* Yes, as Indians ,a lot of us go through discrimination mostly because we work for less money, which is cheap labour, take it in your stride and work through the politics and other stuff
* Accept that not everyone welcomes you like you want to, but it will change and people will accept you.
* Everything is 2X or 3X times expensive, stop converting into rupees or your own currency, it will take time to stop doing that, do it , it will be easy on your mind
It is very very important to find a good place to live in, consider spending 25% of salary. Clean, furnished, good place, pool, gym, jacuzzi will atleast take 25% of salary. Also if you are not married, most compounds/villas will not allow you to rent a place, lucky for me that my housemate is married.
Over all, I am happy where I live and what I do, feel free to ask questions
I cannot believe that I have had so many replies on this post, first of all apologies for not replying on this post and thank you for all the times you folks have taken to reply to me with good intent.
I moved here in the last week of January 2016 and to say the least I was frustrated, annoyed with the rules and quite a lot of things even though I knew it was not going to be easy.
To put things in perspective, I am single and also I have some solid 10 years of work experience behind me in IT, even though it sounds like a cliche, I moved here not only for money but mostly for the experience, culture because why not I am 29 and single and I was hoping that I could do a MS at Qatar University.
I was put up in a nice hotel at Grand Qatar Palce for first 15days, even though I had figured a place to live, I decided to stay put in the hotel for 15days because they served really good continental breakfast which I enjoyed
Most of you folks got it right about the savings, Here is the breakdown about how I Want to spend and save
4000 - Rent [ 3BHK Villa in Al-Thumama ] - was lucky to find this place because it is about 1km walk to my workplace and really friendly and helpful European housemates
200 - Internet and Electricity bills
1000 - Food, I cook, eat out on some days, this includes the groceries.
500 - Taxi to work one way [ Considering summer is coming ]
1000 - Personal expenses
550 - Gym [ Elite Fitness Club ] - Expensive as HELL, but it is the only closest gym
I will be saving about 8750 , I must say I lead a very comfortable life for about 7k and I was aiming at about 7-8K of savings.
I must say, I almost thought of returning back and did not open my bags for about 10days, it was frustrating not being able to walk around, not having anyone to talk to but once I moved with into the Villa, the folks were really nice and I am enjoying living with them and I hope they feel likewise. Fortunately all three of them have a licensce because apparentely Europeans dont need to attend the test because of similar road rules
Some points if someone is planning to move to Doha
* Make sure you choose the best place to live in, it is important because you come to a different country altogether and after a tough day, home is the only place where you want to go to
* If you want people to talk to you, you need to be friendly and smile and talk and ask questions
* Dont over think what people assume of your country, understand that stereotyping is common everywhere
* Yes, as Indians ,a lot of us go through discrimination mostly because we work for less money, which is cheap labour, take it in your stride and work through the politics and other stuff
* Accept that not everyone welcomes you like you want to, but it will change and people will accept you.
* Everything is 2X or 3X times expensive, stop converting into rupees or your own currency, it will take time to stop doing that, do it , it will be easy on your mind
It is very very important to find a good place to live in, consider spending 25% of salary. Clean, furnished, good place, pool, gym, jacuzzi will atleast take 25% of salary. Also if you are not married, most compounds/villas will not allow you to rent a place, lucky for me that my housemate is married.
Over all, I am happy where I live and what I do, feel free to ask questions