Urgent need of social Life: New exciting and active comer to Riyadh

17POSTS

12 years ago

Hi,

I'm new in Riyadh. I'm in banking industry. I used to do thousands of things over days/weeks and months. I was living in Germany and almost always either in the plane or in the ski slops or climbing the walls or mountains...

Now I relocated here in Riyadh. The sun is for sure here but feel like there is a lake of social life. I'm sure it exist. I just need to find it

I'm free to play pool or to have a booling game with expats in the City. I'm also a chess player so appreciate if anyone wants to fire up his/her neurones. I have cards as well so welcome for a game.

I'm single in this city but not anymore expats are here isn't it ? introduce yourself

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suribhai Serial expat

639POSTS

12 years ago

FrenchySwimmer wrote:
Hi,

People who come to Riyadh would sure face the same as you, but the thing is you will get used to it. It will take some time to get along with people and the culture, so keep patience and move on. For social life get in touch with people in DQ or compounds, else some weekend meetings. What ever you did before coming to saudi for your social life, just forget them and start your new life with zero. At one point you will understand the real situation here and you would get used to it. Good Luck.

FrenchySwimmer Member

17POSTS

12 years ago

Thanks Suribhai for your advice.

I'm Ok here as long as I'm discovering the area, culture, living, people, differences....etc I travelled a lot so it's not the worst place to be. I've visited many places over weekends also. Burning 1000 of km on weekends but I need to build smoothly my social life here. I'm not living in the compound. So I don't know if I can acces or not or should I need to be invited?
Didn't have time to go to French Ambassy yet but I'll do. Meanwhile I could'nt find information on activities of expats here yet. any clue ?

Djzubaid Serial expat

409POSTS

12 years ago

Hey,frenchy swimmer?

聽 anyways ,welcome to the Kingdom,moreover welcome to Expat-Blog .I like your enthusiasm ,There arent many people with such zeal.i would hang out with you sometime but first thing first ,like you mentioned you needed to know about the activies , i dont know about many but here are some聽 if you are interested in bowling then there is a gathering every once or twice a month ,depending on the organiser /forum/viewtopic.php?id=366070 ,i see you already know this ,but i think it wont be until next 3 to 4 weeks i guess,anyways about the parties ,there are lots of them going on but only in secrecy and in compounds ,which you聽 are strict invitee only.But dont worry once you make friends ,you will get to know and to meet potential people ,there are get togethers organised by embassies where you can socialise .I think there is Europe month going on this whole month where there are regular exhibitions and get togethers in the european embassies,and importantly everyone is invited so just hang out and visit the DQ. Well these are the only things are currently in my mind .There are other member who would give you better insight about "socializing". Until then enjoy the city.

hishamdba Active member

69POSTS

12 years ago

Hi FrenchySwimmer,

This Hisham, I hope you are getting used to it. let me know if you wanna meet for coffee or table tennis game.

Regards....

Faresmaroun New member

2POSTS

12 years ago

Salut Frenchy,

je suis la depuis un mois, il n' ya que le sport qui fait passer le temps. il y a beaucoup de boulevards, des jardins publiques pour marcher. (essaye d'eviter les endroits ou il ya des familles).

Si tu aime le safari, il ya plein de places a decouvrir dans le desert.

Fares

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