+ friendly
+ safe
+ no dog!!!!
+ getting help (cleaning lady etc) is easy
+ big culture of eating out
- disciminatory against non-Bahrainis (law cases, family law, immigration, religion)
- rulers and trading families all fighting against each other...no sense of working together to produce a Monte Carlo of the Gulf
- traffic and general organisaiton is appaling
- little planning
- expats whinge a lot and you fall prey to that too
- cultual desert except for strolling players from abroad
- lost the plot commercially and been overtaken
- costs are now increasing substantially