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In message , Essjay001
writes
BrianE wrote:
Jammy git..

You can come too Brian, do you want the address
Steve R

Yes please Steve! Where are you off to mate?

Saudi Arabia!

They behead people for top posting over there
--
geoff

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"BAH" wrote in message
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Good Luck mate, BUT............. I was out there for three years in the
'80's. At the time, despite the pay being tax free and about thrice UK
rates, the average stay for a British Expatriate on a long term contract
was
around three months!

I was in Oman for 13 months (2000) and Kuwait for 7 months (2001). I only
returned because I had to not because I wanted to. I did so love Oman.

You're also going out at the hottest time of the year
(we used to reckon that it took two weeks to 50% acclimatise and many
years
to be comfortable in it), get used to it by putting your head into your
kitchen oven after steaming a hot pudding?

In Oman I used to go hiking naked in the mountains fabulous exercise (risky
jagged volcanic rocks)

Kuwait is said to be the hottest premanently inhabited place in the world, I
loved it

Homesickness (and no booze, etc) can be a powerful thing to contend with -

Being single I have nothing to keep me here. My daughter and her boyfriend
will be living in my house while I am away. I don't drink so no problem
there

indeed, my predecessor, upon hearing I was en route, immediately jumped
on
a plane and returned home. He couldn't even wait to brief me for a proper
takeover (the house boy told me he had been pacing the roof at night,
counting the planes taking off from Jeddah airport before his next journey
home).

There are those that just can't take it

The other curious fact then was that a considerable number reckoned they
had
made enough to go home, only to come back a few years later when the
reality
of UK cost of living re-appeared.

I am quite lucky I only have a 30K mortgage which I want to pay off (the
endownment is'nt performing too well) and I recieve a 6K pension from the
RAF which will go up in 2 years time.

Finally, think about your return-to-the-UK strategy before you go, and
work
on it whilst there, because getting back into the UK job scene can be
tough.

Don't I know it since I returned from Kuwait I have done everything and
anything including a spell as a bin man (which I quite enjoyed), Dyson's
production line, perfume factory, D/G manufacturer, computer technician,
carpenter, press operator, I made gasmasks for the Department of Defense and
power supply units for MOD submarines.

I don't really see myself returning here permenantly. France Spain or NZ are
favourites

I'm sure others, like me, would appreciate a progress report, if only for
the vicarious experience.

I will keep you updated

Best wishes
Cheers!

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

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"geoff" wrote in message
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In message , Essjay001
writes
BrianE wrote:
Jammy git..

You can come too Brian, do you want the address
Steve R

Yes please Steve! Where are you off to mate?

Saudi Arabia!

They behead people for top posting over there

They have many strange customs out there but that ain't one of them
--
geoff

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"martin" wrote in message

My daughter's unemployed boy friend would like the address.
--
Martin

Are you trying to get rid of him?

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

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"Kim Bewick" wrote in message
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I'm sure my husband would love the address :-)
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Kim

Are you trying to get rid of him too?

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In message , Essjay001
writes

Finally, think about your return-to-the-UK strategy before you go, and
work
on it whilst there, because getting back into the UK job scene can be
tough.

What UK job scene?
--
geoff

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:19:38 +0100, geoff wrote:

In message , Essjay001
writes
BrianE wrote:
Jammy git..

You can come too Brian, do you want the address
Steve R

Yes please Steve! Where are you off to mate?

Saudi Arabia!

They behead people for top posting over there

wouldn't hacking their hands off be sufficient?
--
Martin

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:20:41 +0000 (UTC), "Essjay001"
wrote:

"martin" wrote in message

My daughter's unemployed boy friend would like the address.

Are you trying to get rid of him?

:-)
--
Martin

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:21:30 +0000 (UTC), "Essjay001"
wrote:

"Kim Bewick" wrote in message
...
I'm sure my husband would love the address :-)
---
Kim

Are you trying to get rid of him too?

I wonder if he is my daughter's unemployed boy friend? :-)

--
Martin

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In uk.d-i-y Essjay001 wrote:
"BAH" wrote in message
...
Good Luck mate, BUT............. I was out there for three years in the
'80's. At the time, despite the pay being tax free and about thrice UK
rates, the average stay for a British Expatriate on a long term contract
was
around three months!

I was in Oman for 13 months (2000) and Kuwait for 7 months (2001). I only
returned because I had to not because I wanted to. I did so love Oman.

Yes, but Oman is a *little* different from Saudi Arabia. We lived in
Saudi Arabia from 1974 to 1977 and in Oman from 1980 to 1987. We
enjoyed both but Oman was better in many ways.

We were a couple without children in Saudi Arabia and my wife had a
job too, I think this was one of the easiset situations to be in
there, wives with children were stuck at home and isolated, husbands
by themselves often just sort of festered. Although it's a dry
country we knoew more heavy drinkers and alcoholics there than we've
ever met anywhere else. The other saving grace for us was that we had
our own horses there and went riding out in the desert just about
every day.

In Oman we had children (they were born in the gap back in the UK,
1977-1980) but it's a much more open sort of society in many ways. It
was brilliant for young children, they just about grew up out of doors
and in the swimming pool at the PDO club. They both still spend most
of the time barefoot.

--
Chris Green )

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geoff wrote:

Yes please Steve! Where are you off to mate?

Saudi Arabia!

They behead people for top posting over there

Good!

--
Marc
Stickers,decals,membership,cards, T shirts, signs etc
for clubs and associations of all types.
http://www.jaceeprint.demon.co.uk/

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In article ,
"Essjay001" wrote:

I don't really see myself returning here permenantly. France Spain or NZ are
favourites

Well apparently unemployment is low and Situations Vacant adds are at a
high in NZ at the moment. However the govt has just changed the rules on
immigration. You now have to have the skills/qualifications that are
being sought at the time you apply, there is no guaranteed entry on
enough qualifications any more. So if you are serious check the websites
regularly.

Peter

--
Peter Ashby
School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland
To assume that I speak for the University of Dundee is to be deluded.
Reverse the Spam and remove to email me.

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from martin contains these words:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:19:38 +0100, geoff wrote:
In message , Essjay001
writes
BrianE wrote:

Jammy git..

You can come too Brian, do you want the address
Steve R

Yes please Steve! Where are you off to mate?

Saudi Arabia!

They behead people for top posting over there

wouldn't hacking their hands off be sufficient?

No.

--
Rusty http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm
horrid·squeak snailything zetnet·co·uk excange d.p. with p to reply.

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