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Riyadh has SOME pretty impressive architecture but thank goodness this place is not built on a fault line! (There is also a lot of extremely tacky architecture, they seem to be stuck in a bit of an 80's early 90's glitz and glamour themed state). If you could see the construction of some of these buildings you would know that one earthquake here and the whole city would literally fall apart. The brick work holding some of these buildings together is a little unnerving...
Our compound I have called home for the last 7 months pales in comparison to others the Americans and Brits have built for themselves here, their compounds are actual towns of their own surround by prison style walls and armored cars, guards and metal detectors. Set foot in them and you walk into another country, a little piece of the western world sticking out like a thorn in the side of surrounding Saudi's, part of life in Saudi.
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