* The concept of alienation: It is moving or emigrating from the city in which you were born “your hometown” to another country for a scientific or practical purpose.
If we deal with today’s topic, which is cultural coexistence outside the Kingdom:
It is a collision of two different cultures, which is our culture from childhood to the new environmental culture, which is completely different from cultural and social habits.. in the sense that it is a new environmental shift.
You may have read or heard about it, but now you live with it.
It is also a broad rich quality referral and development of intellect and personality.. It helps in expanding your previous scope from the new one.
Alienation is a valuable opportunity with great enrichment for expatriates. Some enjoy the opportunity of alienation while others await it.
* All expatriates share the same interest, which is "the benefit".
Utility: It is a need that is either knowledge or action.
Here comes the role of the healthy, positive expatriate to recognize and benefit from every new bright color of this people, not to mention ignoring everything that is contrary and harms your person.
* Experiences of alienation can make you a new person
I will deal with the details of my exile and share with you the days of my exile; With its sweetness, difficulty, denunciation and astonishment of the new.
In the beginning, planning for relocation and the goal is to improve the financial situation, especially since the opportunity to work in the intended city is somewhat good in terms of keeping pace with the global labor market, and we will provide greater opportunities and invite everyone who has the ability and contribute to its planned development.
I never hesitated in the decision to move because I used to love this city and plan to visit a nearby city, even if fate wills.
Beginning with my arrival at the airport and the start of the differences, my attention caught my attention after completing the procedures and heading to the airport gate. Organizing taxis, organizing passengers, as well as vehicles, and arranging them in the size of the small and large of the vehicle according to its passengers.
Along the way, I experienced a moment of beautiful different fascinations.
I do not hide from you the engineering creativity of the large number of buildings with a series of beautiful tall towers that extend along the road.
Here I learned that there is a fee imposed on vehicle owners when passing on highways, the idea of which I did not approve of, because in our beloved Kingdom there is no such system.
Here begins the first basics of the journey, which is the search for housing.
Every expatriate must struggle in choosing the appropriate residential area as a family or an individual by drawing up a plan numbered with important points that suit the selection of the place according to the classification mentioned by the family or individual (male, female).
It should be full of food and health services, schools should be close, the area should be quiet or noisy, and the housing should be ready with furniture or furnished by you. All choices depend on the budget set by the expatriate and his needs.
The appropriate housing and neighborhood were chosen, and we succeeded in it, praise be to God. A beautiful place that is completely different from the way I have lived for the last 30 years
that passed.
Of course, there must be difficulty, not as the reader or the imaginary expects, that alienation does not have difficulties.
We started with residential rental procedures, which were completely different from our system in Saudi Arabia.
The rental price depends on the location of the apartment and its view.
And the price of electricity for the house according to its area; Each apartment and villa is different from the other in terms of area.. The other difference is the electricity bill completely separate from air conditioning and refrigeration.
The tenant must open an account with the Electricity Authority, as well as the Water Authority, and pay an initial fee.
In addition to the insurance amount, as far as I know, approximately 2000 for small apartments and 4000 for large apartments and villas.
They had high requirements that must be available in every building, otherwise the owner of the facility will receive a high penalty and fines.
Security and safety of the building.
Especially since this city achieves advanced ranks in a number of international classifications in terms of safety, and it occupies the third place among the safest countries in the world, as indicated by the Namiebo website, which includes the largest international database and data.
These allocated buildings shall have sports clubs, a private swimming pool for the building, and a large area designated for children and families’ games.
There must be ground parking spaces designated for residents, numbered according to residential floors and apartments. There are severe penalties when you take a parking lot other than your home.
Signing up for the internet took a long time.
It was an obstacle in many matters for us, by virtue of the fact that the Internet is now the main arm of the movement of almost all life affairs, searching for the necessary applications, shops and places, and getting to know more about your daily need to reach its places.
I took a long time, but in return a beautiful face and a wonderful positive feature. Public places, beaches and malls have Wi-Fi for everyone. Some cafes and restaurants give you the opportunity or as a kind of temptation for customers to enjoy your coffee while the internet is free, and from it you get to know the surroundings of your new city.
After that, I moved on to the journey of research and a new responsibility for a nursery or kindergarten for my child, and I chose what suits my child and began the journey of total commitment to time, taking into account your child’s psychology and realizing whether it has a negative or positive impact, which is also a new world for him.
The expatriate, with the long time in his exile, the visits in the middle of the week may be non-existent, and I have enough space after my child enters the nursery. I thought of learning to drive. Also, I started a new journey plan to search for driving education centers, but thanks to God, it ended and I finished driving education and received my driving license in my kingdom; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Various different experiences that cannot be counted or focused on all of them, but I try to list the journey of my exile in general and in detail.
* The feelings of expatriates and the pressures and beauty of days
It reflects negatively and positively on his family environment, and dealing with feelings of alienation varies from one person to another.
The days of their estrangement are a summary of longing and longing for the gathering of family and loved ones. Tears of longing and crying may abound.
For a meal with his family, for an old neighborhood, for an old habit, all of which the expatriate pushes from his own strength.
The view of some expatriates, from his perspective, is that it is theft and the deprivation of the pleasure of his family and his family as well.
This is how the days of exile pass with the benefit of its days, its sweetness and its bitterness. There must be very difficult days that make you collapse, your body weakens, and soon you stand on your feet again, sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker.
Because alienation gives you the ability to play all the roles that you have not known before, you play the role of mother, father, sister, brother, wife, helper, driver, educator, paramedic, and teacher, and all of this is real suffering for the mother or the expatriate who is physically and psychologically responsible.
However, these matters quickly fade away with the beautiful endings of the expatriates, which has a beneficial effect on himself first, and then on his family, and with time on his surroundings and society through his work and the exchange of his previous cultures with them.
I learned a valuable treasure, which is accepting the other side and respecting its conviction, religion and thought.
Especially since I was in an environment full of different religions, sects and sects, and I never felt that the focus of everyone's attention was the difference of beliefs and religions.
I always remembered the hadeeth of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace:
(You have your religion and I have mine).. The focus was first on the outcome of your education and the extent of your intellectual awareness and humanity.
This was a good lesson.
The ability to accept the other and the person's learning to modify his opinions and change his previous convictions is evidence of his ability and walking in the right path.
It was a whole new world for me that I placed in the circle of my new lifestyle behaviors.
Interested in child and family affairs
Sticky promise