Is Doha a boring place?

its toooooooo much boring , still i dont know how i will pass through this ?!!!!!

Extremely boring, but Im guessing it's due to the lack of friends. Stuffing my face with junk food is a temporary fix.....need to make friends fast!

Tahsinmim yes they are copying Dubai but the CTRL V not working properly.

Lost in Qatar : you can be my friend :P

Yeh Brit, and from ABC and the Telegraph too :P

TheDarkKnightRises: Breed :P

I said above: "Dubai is boring, Doha is exciting."

If it's in Dohanews it must be true!!

Did you say boring... then most of you guys have not been to the Industrial area where things happen.....atleast after 5.00 pm

Zafirah, it's a TV series, and MM watches it all day, all night. Hence he is bored.

DUREX!! OMG! O_o! Just saw that!!

If you put that together: Durex, virgin, then the Big Bang makes sense. But it's only a theory. Therefore the boredom.

damn I need sometime 3 days weekend and 28 hours day to fully enjoy Doha..alot postponed due to lack of time :(

The picture is offensive :P

He oopsed himself by typing eight zeros. He said to me, he didn't want to become an institution like britexpat.

member for 1 week and 22Hrs, LP has shared with you many things Spock ? :(

Some people think alike, Rizks.

Thats coz Spock does not like to SEE or SPEAK nonsense...he only likes to listen to it :P

Dont show your back on Ql especially when khanan is around :P

Thanks for the reply, spock.
Cleared my doubts. :)

Qatar is not boring as long as QDC is open.

Yes it is

well I am pretty sure the locals do not find it boring,since they can do pretty much anything without useless paper works.

you're right blosted... it depends on the culture you grew up with.
I grew up in a liberated country and, yeah, I find it boring...

Be both?

I really don’t understand why people feel so miserable being in Doha :P
Tell me what is it you want to do here that you can’t?

Sky diving, sking on snow mountains, Rains, beautiful lakes and rowing boats

In every other country, being at the back of the mind for drawing comparisons, factories are part of the total set up of the society where after work you walk out to a world outside to have other distractions/ diversions. Qatar, for me atleast, is synonymous to an industry. To achieve any distraction/ diversion beyond the routine life one needs to get out and that means fly out else live on the facilities provided by the company (i.e. Qatar) which then obviously tend to become boring after a while due to its repetitive nature and fixed boundaries.

Simple as that. I'm not into the mall scene, unless you hand over an unlimited credit card, but how much shopping can one do.....don't think my kids would be entertained.
I feel imprisoned inside my compound. People tend to lock themselves inside. There's not enough greenery....open beaches in near proximity. Aghhhh just bored.

LIQ you should join Mums in Qatar or something like that..i think its a group here on QL...they have plenty of activities to do and meetups.

well if you want to be a robot or an animal fine but humans live to work and experience life and have fun and learn and try new things......

life is about love, shelter, career, security, education, sex, progress, and entertainment but you seem to think life is about working only which is against human nature in terms of logic, religion, and nature...

and even when it comes to work this is the most unprofessional country when it comes to work. You have an extremely uneducated workforce and not to mention not ambitious at all...

do not try to be smart by trying to compare Iraq to Qatar..Iraq has had a war and instability and thousands of problems and even in Iraq under the former dictator you had some level of religious and economic freedom...here there is so much money and a small population yet we see no progress at all..Nothing but cheap talk.. no entertainment, no generous salaries except for a few based on nationality combined with connections... there is alot of work to be done? why are they making it so hard for ppl to get a job? especially ppl who worked here and got educated here..whats the excuse? stop giving stupid excuses..its amazing how unaccountable and irresponsible ppl r over here in this country...were is the entertainment? why not make a place like Disney land? why not make awesome laser shooting place or a huge indoor ice skating ring with awesome state of art technology? I can go on forever

Talal is not suffering... his just being realistic, sadly the fact hurts if we were involved.

Smoke, if this keeps up I'll have to join crazy moms in Qatar...

This is so refreshing to know that there are people here too who prefer good things in life...:)

I really am not insulting this country and saying everything is bad here..there are good aspects like the fact that it is safe and stable to a certain extent.

I criticize it because of the many injustices that are happening and I believe in change. I am an Arab and I know I am not stupid and I believe I and other Arabs can do wanders if we stop this ignorant mentality in the Arab world especially in the Gulf Region... We always blames others instead of blaming ourselves.

For all you who are reading this look at the country called Singapore.It is so small like Qatar yet it is innovative and a world leader in many industries... compare it to Qatar and you will realize it has much more to offer even though the State of Qatar has much more potential to be honest.. The only reason why this country is not moving forward is due to the lack of will to work, to be educated individuals who contribute to society and this is all tied up to the backwards mentality which is money is everything... Money is not everything and proof of that is Qatar now..it has all the money in the world but no freedom, entertainment, education, knowledge, and fun....

It all depends on how you enjoy yourself. For me its work, six days a week and each day getting back home and being with family is relaxing like nothing else. Just think of all those people stuffed up in labour camps who go home once in two years. Going out and enjoying happens only on thursday nights and friday evenings. I havent been to Dubai or London, so I find Doha is a very good city and I intend to be here for a long time.

People get bored either because they have too much free time or because they have a very restrictive idea of enjoyment.

I will soon start learning Arabic at Fanar. Insha Allah, I'll buy a DSLR soon and start clicking. There are many relatives to visit, friends to hang out with. Once in a while I might go for a long drive with my camera. I would go for movies occasionally.....

Its just 24 hours per week. There is a lot to do to not get bored.

:)

What kind of music?

If you are bored, have kids. That way you'll be running your butt off wishing you were bored!

Compared to other countries i have lived, its not the best place so yeah its a bit boring. Takes a good while to get used to.

it is totally not better than Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, USA and all the other nations with fun activities!
Honestly, boring? Yes.!

Bottom line is.....Any place on earth becomes boring if ur used to a single routine that is not subject to any change and ur not open to any new ideas

to enjoy more of Doha and surroundings.

not at all

Agree with aLmAaAa

Its not a boring place if you are really busy with work life and stuffs. I think during the weekends its a nice place. But during the weekdays its not so exciting , because people come here to work and make money , so its not a tourist spot like Dubai. But yes Doha is trying hard to be like Dubai and I am sure it will be in few years time .