Compounds and Pauls Place - Al Hamra

Paul was leaving his compound, one one of his many to come departures for good. saudi is like that for lots of people, you don't say good bye, just ciou until next time.

This was a very clean well layed out compound with a swimming pool for every group of villa's. I but too clean and sterile for my liking but everyone there loved it, as you can imagine their was an abundant social life around all the pools, some people used to go around swimming in every one over the course of the day.

To give an idea of the costs, my house cost US$2,500 per month, a place like Al Hamra would be another 50%. A compound can be a great place to live, nice house, restaurant food delivered whenever you want, a 24 hour pool and mine has a garden for barbeques and soiree's listening to the mosques calling the failfull to prayer. Comfortable it is but cheap it isn't.

My company made it so comfortable to be there that you forget what you have to go through during the day at work, and on the weekends you can have some fun if you have a good crowd around you. It's like living in a cacoon, everything is noce and so long as you don't look outside you forget what ya missing, just light the shisha and cool down some red.