[timwilky]

Not Quatar, But Dubai and Oman in that part of the world. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines.

Remember in the oil rich tolerant middle east. ALL foreigners are scum and only fit to be servants. There is a pecking order and those from across the Arabian sea are only fit to clean or young ones can be camel jockeys, Woman from the former USSR are all prostitutes and western Europeans can serve them by running or providing to their oil industry.

The expat lifestyle is good. But you have to work hard and that lets you play hard as well. As said above air conditioning is a necessity. 5 mins in the desert gets a fair old sweat on. A 10 day field visit in Oman in the 80s cost me over a stone. Somehow I think I now need to go back for a month.