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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?

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That's the thing with arranged marriages and multiple wives - you have not normally got someone of your choosing (as in us infidels who meet partners socially and are allowed to make our own choices), and having more than one option each nights sets the wrong tone for a happy marriage. I know of loads of Saudis in particular who are very naughty boys when away from home.

What is the difference in someone having sex with up to four different women as they are married by law, and someone cheating when the wife is away? Why does a man need multiple wives in todays day and age?

I guess you have a different view on marriage then myself - I married my wife because we wanted to be with each other, I've no interest in jumping on other women.

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Other posters have also questioned this (although I am sure we all wonder why we bother) but the fact is that many men have a decent and balanced view of womenand are quite capable of keeping their flies zipped. Not all men objectify women, although your religion seems somewhat obsessed with who is sleeping with whom.

Sigh.

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I am escaping from the Sand Pit for 6 weeks next week (does that count for a summer escape), 4 weeks in China and 2 in Thailand.

Does anyone else find that just prior to a vacation the tolerance level for annoying things gets infinitely lower, whereas I would just sigh (like for people insisting on entering the metro as I am trying to alight), I now really want to explode and say get some **@@ing manners....seems once every now and then I need to escape to appreciate what I have here!!??????

Any ones thoughts??

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Been here all summer apart from 8 days back in the UK.

My first summer in Dubai and the temperatures haven't been as bad as I expected. I do spend a lot of times outside for work and I thought it would have been much more unbearable. Saying that I still can't wait for winter!

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this has been one of the coolest summers I can remember :)