MaserMan

Just bought a bottle of stoly - about 90 riyals

MaserMan

Famous last words!

Bob

There was a thread on this early in the summer....you'll see....

Crewegirl

i have no children, will not be working. i will be the maid.

fallingwater

You'll need a maid for the dust.

Crewegirl

i can clean no problem.

fallingwater

Yes, but the dust is not ordinary dust, and it's there, every damn day. (I didn't have a maid either - am out of it now, but I remember the dust..;-)

Crewegirl

thanks best be extra nice to mr crewegirl then to provide one. how guilty am i going to feel.

fallingwater

To be honest, if you manage to find somewhere to live away from a building site, it may not be as bad, but unless they've finished everything off in the last couple of years, which I doubt, then there'll be dust, and not only after a sandstorm. I hated the way you could feel it under foot on the marble floors, or it got sucked in through the bathroom fan and coated the toilet and bath. Even if you go through the house every day, it's back again the next. Kept me fit though, all that housework, especially my favourite exercise, cleaning dust off the stairs - marble stairs can be dangerously slippy with a coating of dust ;-0

Kix

As a maid will only cost you £250/month for 6 days a week and 18 hours a day, I wouldn't worry too much.

Crewegirl

Its Kix... i wondered where you had gone.
cleaning head on for when i get there then. it`ll be fine...

Kix

You're saying that now, but all those meets for coffee, the mannys and peddys, then the long lunches and weekly waxing, you won't have time to clean - and it'll ruin your nails!

fallingwater

Couldn't stand all that stuff, I got my kicks frightening the locals with my dog and fighting for first off the mark at Decoration roundabout at rush hour. Driving was the best buzz...

scrubbedexpat141

Mate...need some help

1 or 2 bed apartment, nice area, nice place....what roughly would you expect to pay monthly?

MaserMan

it's Marks & Spencer dust