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Old May 22nd, 2006, 06:35 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Default Saudi Arabia opens its doors to tourists


Mxsmanic wrote:
Jordi writes:

A good chunk of them have enough cash and assets to allow them not to
work for a dozen generations or so, they just need to change their
Bentleys every two years instead of 6 months.


Only an extremely small percentage of them are wealthy.


That is a common western misconception. An extremely small percentage
are extremely wealthy, a good other percentage are simply wealthy and
most people are upper-middle class by western standards.

Those having a hard time in the KSA are, for the most part, foreign
workers in near slavery conditions and foreign students trying to
become muslim clerics. Those are the ones bringing the per capita
figures down.

J.