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How long do you intend to stay in the Middle East

Old Jan 30th 2012, 3:45 am
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How long do you intend to stay in the Middle East ?

(Too early in the morning to try and work out how to do a poll and i havent had my coffee!)
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Old Jan 30th 2012, 3:49 am
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2 more years for me I think- should have allowed me to save my house deposit.
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No idea - I voted 5 years as, assuming hell doesn't break loose of course, I'll probably be just too lazy to move somewhere else.

of course, when you leave isn't often in the control of most of those that live here
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Another 2 years, then off to China--or so I plan.
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10 years
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Old Jan 30th 2012, 5:37 am
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I'll hopefully be off within the next few months.

Just waiting on the offer letter....

That will have been my 5 years up. Only planned to stay 3, but hey-ho...
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I said another 3, that would be almost 7 by then, overshot the runway there a bit considering I came for a year
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for as long as possible. 4 weeks in the uk every year is enough for me. the country is going to the dogs, and by dogs i mean immigrants. don't know why everyone's in a rush to go back to paying tax for stuff like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...poor-area.html
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for as long as possible. 4 weeks in the uk every year is enough for me. the country is going to the dogs, and by dogs i mean immigrants. don't know why everyone's in a rush to go back to paying tax for stuff like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...poor-area.html
No irony there then...



And I refuse to read the nonsense printed in the Daily Fail.
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No irony there then...



And I refuse to read the nonsense printed in the Daily Fail.
How about same article in thesun? better

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...llion-pad.html
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Originally Posted by tayls123
for as long as possible. 4 weeks in the uk every year is enough for me. the country is going to the dogs, and by dogs i mean immigrants. don't know why everyone's in a rush to go back to paying tax for stuff like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...poor-area.html
Ah yes, The Daily Mail, what an excellent source of information for the open-minded and imaginative......

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Old Jan 30th 2012, 7:16 am
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Ah yes, The Daily Mail, what an excellent source of information for the open-minded and imaginative......

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...e-housing.html

telegraph good enough? i could pull a bunch of articles for several different newspapers...take your pick...it all comes out the same. whether its immigration, taxes, politics, financial reasons...even the weather...whatever excuses you want...Great Britain isnt so Great...otherwise none of you would be in the middle east right now.
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Old Jan 30th 2012, 7:41 am
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Originally Posted by tayls123
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...e-housing.html

telegraph good enough? i could pull a bunch of articles for several different newspapers...take your pick...it all comes out the same. whether its immigration, taxes, politics, financial reasons...even the weather...whatever excuses you want...Great Britain isnt so Great...otherwise none of you would be in the middle east right now.
Wrong , i'm here for work and money and when i have enough i'll leave . Great Britain isn't so great now but that could go for dozens or so called first world nations .

Not everyone is here because they are fed up of the U.K . A lot of us are here because it's what we do for a living.

Everythings not always black and white mate
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Originally Posted by co durham boy
Wrong , i'm here for work and money and when i have enough i'll leave . Great Britain isn't so great now but that could go for dozens or so called first world nations .

Not everyone is here because they are fed up of the U.K . A lot of us are here because it's what we do for a living.

Everythings not always black and white mate
fair enough, i can see your point. for me personally though, i hate KSA but i'd rather be working out here than in the UK.
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a man that is tired of KSA is tired of life.
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