Originally Posted by
A3301FD
So if you are single, yeah EK is a go - for a limited period of time. Take two buckets...one for cash, one for ME BS. Which ever gets full first...time to leave. However, the one for cash will never fill.
OMG - my Dad said that exact same thing, almost verbatim, about Saudia in Jeddah in 1985. We left in 1988 with the cash...
You can create a decent enough 'western' lifestyle in HK (if you're single w/o kids, or importing Cornish beer as a side business to pay for school fees); but in the ME, good luck. And you'll probably realise all too quickly that the vast majority of the BS in the ME that you and your family have to deal with won't come from work.