Well, kenoco, I believe in telling it like it is. My views about life in Doha are shared by a number of people, others love it ... I guess different opinions make life interesting! But I've read quite a bit on various threads here about Qatar being a good place to live (safe ... true, people are nice and friendly ... mostly true, good shopping ... compared to what???) and I wanted to put on record a different view ... boring, uninteresting, horrendous summers, small-town living ... I would never actually recommend it to anyone unless they were desperate for a job and there was nothing else around.