[artplumber]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

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There's also a chance I might get hooked up with a gig overseas through a close friend of mine who's currently working in Qatar (energy business). Lower probability of success (maybe 25% that it'll actually come through) but if it does, I'm gone - even if it's after I've taken the other job. Living overseas, mostly tax-free in a wealthy country with no job security issues for the foreseeable future sounds just fine to me.

Errr, are you sure they would let your wife be "western"? And is Qatar like Saudi - wealthy few, not so wealthy many, maybe high unemployment proletariat?