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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I was talking about expats -foreign service, corporate - people who choose where they live. Although, to be fair, they are often channeled into specific communities by their employer.[/quote]

We were expats who lived in Kuwait prior to the Gulf Wars.  We lived in a compound, but it wasn't an American compound- it was full of all nationalities- Europeans, Asians, other Arabs, and Americans.  Kuwait was a country of the haves and have-nots. We lived in a compound because it was much cheaper than living in a palatial estate like the Kuwaitis did.  We did go to the American School of Kuwait, but so did all the other non-Kuwaitis else- it was either that or a French or Kuwaiti school and we didn't speak Arabic or French.  We made lots of friends, but it was difficult at times for my mom being a woman- she was harrassed a lot, even though she is a very conservative dresser.  There were times when men would run her off the road b/c she was a woman driving.

Having said that, it was a wonderful place to spend a childhood and I have a lot of great memories.[/quote]

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