not a bad place if you don't mind small town living with big city traffic! but to be fair, apart from the traffic (which isn't that bad compared to Abu Dhabi and Dubai), it's a convenient enough place to live. you'll get your nice restaraunts, bars, clubs, shops etc that you're used to in the west. food, cars and petrol cheap, other goods not. gotta get used to the arab way of doing things. getting to know a couple of locals and the people in general will help.