I want to live in a city that has a low crime rate, good malls and good places to have fun, friendly people, a city that isn’t polluted and nasty, a city that is just basically excellent.
Well these are my options:
Jeddah
Makkah
Madinah
Taif
Riyadh
Al Khobar/ Ad Dammam
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Please advise me which is the best city to live in, from what I have mentioned…
Tell me which city and WHY!
…..Jeddah or Al Khobar/ Ad Dammam because you have small freedom….
September 20th, 2009 at 6:15 am
if u wanna have some entertainment n less restrictions, go to jeddah
if u r a muslim n religious, then the best places on earth for sure r Mekkah n Medina.
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September 20th, 2009 at 6:33 am
I would say Khobar or Jeddah
Riyadh is ok if you know lots of ppl
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September 20th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Get a canoe and travel to each.
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September 20th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I think Riyadh is pretty exciting to live in. Good Malls, low crime. Friendly people, will depends.
Buy you want to have fun, go to Jeddah, or Al Khobar/Damman.
Even better, head to UAE or Bahrain.
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September 20th, 2009 at 8:16 am
All of saudi arabia is non crime, if you want to go somewhere fun, then go to Jedda or Riyadh. If you are a strong muslim, then you should go to Makkah or Medina.
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September 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am
as an foreigner i would say Dhahran it’s next to Al-Khobar there’s a lot of compounds where you can deal with it
and if you are in Aramco co. you can live in Aramco’s compound you can deal with this more 
Good luck
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September 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am
go to Abha in Asir province
it’s very beautiful and quiet
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abha
September 20th, 2009 at 9:45 am
If you want easy access to alcohol, go to Al-Khobar so you can be close to the causeway, otherwise Jeddah is the best suited for you, especially if you can make some local friends.
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September 20th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Riyadh is the best city to live in. It is the capital city and it is wonderful.
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September 20th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Khobar.. simply cause its very western minded.. I would say Jeddah, but Jeddah is now to conjested, old, and very busy now..
Khobar is still small enough to find yourself.. and only 45 min away drive from Bahrain if you need a breather weekend (cinema, etc) and 50 min away from Dubai by plane.. 8 hours by drive
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September 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I say Jeddah because all the other cities in your options my friends went to live in it and they were bored so they came back to Jeddah. especially Riyadh it is very boring. and why i say Jeddah because it has good malls… and you can go to makkah with your car for 2 hours only. well i say Jeddah is the best city in Saudi arabia.
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September 20th, 2009 at 11:27 am
…..Jeddah or Al Khobar/ Ad Dammam because you have small freedom….
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September 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Khobar.
Its near the sea, and a heartbeat away from Bahrain. It is westernised and the religious police, I HEard, are not allowed to enter Khobar. This might have something to do with Aramco - the saudis I am sure dont want to piss off the expats of Aramco.
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September 20th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I’d say Khobar/Dammam are the best, except during the summer the weather is horrible. It gets really humid and you can’t even stand outside for a minute without getting wet and sweaty. People are nice, traffic is nice.
After that, I’d say Riyadh. Traffic is better than Jeddah. Gets really dry in the summer, but it’s better than really humid.
Taif is a good city, but it might be a bit small. Great weather.
Jeddah is kind of dirty in some places, unless you’re going to stay in one side of the city, I wouldn’t recommend it. They’re planning to clean it up, install a complete sewage system, blah blah, but they’ve been saying that for 20 years now. Traffic is the worst.
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September 20th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Hi, you basically would have one of the three options:
1) the west: Jeddah
2) the center: Riyadh
3) the east: Dammam + Knobar
about the crime rate, mostly there are no concern for crimes overall, and there are no cities known to have big crime rate, but usually there are some parts of the cities, like to most south of Riyadh, but still not that much.
Riyadh is the capital and is in the center of the desert
… not too much fun to have here, unless you consider shopping as fun 
… it has a lot of shopping malls… but it’s a crowded city, normally it takes me about 30 to 50 minutes to get to work.
Jeddah is crowded as well, and has less religious people…
Dammam and Khobar are my recommendation, they have better followers for the roles, less Bedouins, more foreigns and compounds, and better streets, and you can go to Bahrain by car to have more fun!
overall the eastern part of Saudi Arabia is better than the rest.
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born and living in Saudi Arabia