Shake, although this gets monotonous (and gypsy, as I am writing this at 3.15am I am not overly conserned wif tha spellin ok, howp ya wil fagiv ma) PPRUNE is here for aviation professionals, so as this is the Middle East forum for aviation professionals I feel more than qualified to post here. Quite often people post queries here, who are not in aviation at all, but want an insight into living in the Middle East, as this question was.
Nuffin, I think he is saying that we are getting wound up by them. I agree with you Nuffin, we are just trying to answer the initial query with our own first hand experience. We can't help it if our first hand experience is less bitter and twisted than others.