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What expats think of Kuwait?

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There is an email roaming around me and some friends inbox, may be it was a blog post or just an email but it was made by an expat living in Kuwait, here is the content:

Welcome to Kuwait
* Local calls are free, so are water and electricity (Because no one pays)
* No Tax exists
* Petrol is cheaper than water
* Any building construction finishes within 3 months
* Unqualified get more salary than Qualified
* Show-off matters more than real quality & performance
* Labors are paid less than what they can earn back in their country
* Companies can kick away their employees without any reason
* Wastas (recommendation) are more powerful than money
* Cleaners and Tea Boys have more Wasta than officers
* Watchman has more rights than the Building Owner
* Office boy & Drivers have more influence on Boss than Manager
* Kuwait’s climate changes so fast, within one hour you can see rain, dust storm, hot/humid/chilly weather
* There’s a place called Salmiya where narrow streets and pot-holes are no different than those of Bombay
* All Egyptians own a Mercedes… from the 60s or 70s
* Temperature in summer is 50 degrees outside and 5 degrees inside
* You get hot water from the tap marked ‘hot’ and boiling hot water from the tap marked ‘cold’
* If someone can’t earn money in Kuwait, he can’t earn anywhere else in the world (same goes for driving)
* A typical Kuwaiti family has minimum 5 children, 2 maids, 2 drivers, 2 cars and 1 GMC Suburban
* In Kuwait, time goes very fast, Friday to Friday comes and you never know, its sooo fast
* In addition to his annual vacation, every Kuwaiti has a one month paid leave – its called Ramadan
* Everyone knows the phone number of Pizza Hut by-heart but no one knows the number of Police Station/Ambulance
* Being at home is more painful than being at work
* Theatres are full of Arab nationals whenever there is a movie of Salman Khan or Shahrukh Khan (Indian movie stars)
* Kuwaiti girls sing Hindi songs but don’t understand anything
* Kids don’t know the way to school but know how to get to Entertainment City
* Husbands and wives are sweethearts outside but at home they don’t talk to each other and fight.
* All the Filipino maids have 2 cellphones, one local and one roaming
* Those are not aliens at the malls but girls with tons of make-up and boys with ugly hairstyles
* Gilrs wear tied pants, revealing their breasts, full of make-ups but it is good they are wearing veil (Hijab).
* No Dance Bars or pubs but home-made liquor available
* A ladies hair saloon every 50 meters
* Food/Grocery delivery to the car – all you need to do is honk
* A Starbucks every 2km
* A Shopping Mall every 5km
* Young Kuwaiti employees make 2,000 Dollars per month but pay 1,000 Dollars for their Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar and Porsche cars
* Highway lanes differentiated for slow and fast drivers
* Getting license is more difficult than getting car
* Minimum age to get a driving license is 18 but 12 year old kids drive freely
* Smashed cars are a more common sight than smashed bugs
* No Women Queues

TRAFFIC SIGNAL IN KUWAIT :
* GREEN : Signal to go for Americans, Europeans, Indians & Filipinos, but first they look at all the traffic lights in case a lunatic Kuwaiti crossing the red.

* YELLOW : Signal to go for Egyptians and Pakistanis

* RED : Signal to go for Kuwaitis, specially beyond 6th ring roads.