Who has been here all summer?
 

Who has been here all summer? which men have been here on their own whilst the wives and kids have gone home? thank you :)

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Me, except family have been here too. Apart from not being able to have a late afternoon beer and the roads being quiet it's no different.

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I agree and the temperatures this year have been fine, I don't get why some families jump on a plane the day schools ends, leaving the Father's here. Just not my thing.

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Maybe the father's insist - so they can "relax" too? :sneaky:

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there is no need though, plenty of stuff to do here these days it's not like it was in the 80's :)

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My family left me alone for four weeks, perfectly bearable.

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I've been here all summer - longest I've been in Dubai without travelling at the moment- last time I travelled was May- starting to get stir crazy. Only a couple of weeks then i have a business trip though so I can experience normal again.

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We have been here all summer. I wouldn't dare leave my husband here, he'd live on beer and takeaways all summer and I'd come back to Homer Simpson. I don't worry about him sleeping around, though - he's far too tight to pay for it. That is something I do not have to worry about.

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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I've been here all Summer. With my Fiancee, Temps haven't been bad at all. The only difference i noticed was turning off my Xbox an hour earlier to dash round the floors an do the dishes before the boss got home early :).

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:) the weather I think has been very kind this summer, I had my cousin visit and I was worried she wouldn't cope with the heat but it was fine, never went over the 40 degrees the couple of weeks she was with us :)

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Because, being unselfish, it's a small sacrifice for me and my parents and sisters and extended family get to spend a couple of months with their grandchildren. Also my brother in law is in London so my gang head down there for a week also...

Maybe you don't get it because your family are all here? Or you are not really bothered about your kid spending quality time with grandparents (of course if they are still kicking around of course)

We are all different. Personally I wouldn't put a 5 year old through a summer here, it'd bordering on cruelty, unless your life revolves around malls and air conditioned houses.

I happily switch on Skype on an evening and watch my daughter out the back door playing on her bike with her cousins and spending 10hrs a day outside in the fresh air.

My wife has no worries with me when they are away. She knows I just train like a maniac and eat healthily as normal..

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Commander each to their own at the end of the day, I prefer to visit the UK in the Winter, pre-Christmas it is more atmospheric etc. I don't have any contact with my parents. I would have liked to take a trip to the UK this Summer but I wouldn't have gone for the entire summer.

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Yea, fair enough I have a humongous family and the summer is a part of the year that they look forward to my daughter coming back.

Didn't mean to be an ass with my last post

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We both work, so we did have a couple of short 1 week holidays, but the kids have been stuck here for most of the summer (too young to go to UK on their own yet). It's not been great.

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No, went to my adopted home and held my granddaughter for the first time :thumbsup:

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my parents are here, hers arent
no one left, although to be honest she wanted to
so next year they will go and I would be freeeeeeeee to run around naked in the house, and occasionally outside on the roads as well ;)

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Yep been here as always. The little'un has had a good summer, the only problem being the street has been quite deserted of children! now that everybody is back they are all out on their bikes again. lovely weather, nice quiet times, movies etc.

Give it a couple of weeks and the traffic will be manic at 7am.... :huh:

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I stay every year, I work through the summer..I have only left Dubai 5 times in 10 years :D If I want to see friends, they tend to come over in the cooler months, I have 8 of them arriving next month :-D

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I've stayed! And kinda enjoyed the heat.. for every 10 minutes a day I spend in it.

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Did the kids enjoy it?

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I am yet to give birth to any

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Odd summer for my family, lots of time together, owing to the timing of the UK school hols and Ramadan. We managed 1 week in the UK, followed by 2 weeks in Spain, followed by 3 weeks in Doha, followed by two weeks in the UK.

Now I'm back working in Doha on my own, UK flight already booked for the next Eid. 7 weeks and counting down...

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Yes we have been here for the summer too!

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Been here all summer, my lot tend to come and visit me in the winter months, off to China for a month soon to see the in-laws and to do some serious travelling.

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:rofl: The mrs panics about exactly that - I found a donner kebab place downstairs to give me an alternate to Subway, Bobs F&C and Pizzawrap.

Apart from the two week hols, I've been here all summer.

The Mrs went home for 3 weeks and it sucked because I'd rather see her than not but was also great to play more golf, have more boys time and shit with the bathroom door open.

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thanks, I would be a liar if I didn't say I was a little upset at your comments, but then I always say in mind, it's just Commander ;)

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I sometimes read Commander's posts and wonder if it is the chap I met that night in The Stables....he was tall and ginger so there is every chance but he was a completely likeable softie.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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That's me. I'm misunderstood

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How depressing. :(

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Sorry to shatter the image pal.

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Why is it depressing darling?
I enjoy being here..if I went on holiday I would want to stay in a 5star hotel with lovely restaurants and great poolside service... why travel when it is on my doorstep :-D
My friends come here to see me.

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Was sat in my favourite bar in Glasgow's Southside last night and really pondered coming back to the pit. Then I remembered, no junkies, endless sporting opportunities for everyone, and cheap fuel.

Time to get back.

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I have to get out every summer and accumulated 7 weeks this year (incorporating the 2 weeks at the end of Ramadan that Muslims need to recover from a month's binge eating). As July approaches and the temperature goes up and up I cannot wait to leave (Saudi) and pray for rain wherever I go. Thankfully the Netherlands supplied said rain and then I stepped into a UK heatwave followed by balmy days in Portugal fanned by an Atlantic breeze. Now I'm back in the sandpit and it's steaming. Am now busy finding flights for the October Eid break. Anywhere but here.

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It's the reverse for my missus...she can leave me any time safe in the knowledge I'm on the booze 24/7 and too drunk to do anything except post belligerent comments on Britishexpats.

N.

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Me, my wife went home in June as I am working in Riyadh for most of week and now can't come back due to health issues!

Bachelor life ok but boring!

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Like it

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I'd never advice a wife to leave her husband in Dubai alone, no matter how cute and loyal he is!!
In KSA it is an entirly different story, you can leave your husband there alone for months with no worries as you can be sure that he will be starved for sex, unless, off course, he is a real sex scavenger

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You must be very naive, from what I understand there are loads of "available ladies" in KSA, you just need to know where to look.

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Why?