The easiest adjustment that I have made has been buying gas. In the emirate of Abu Dhabi, there is only one gas company, ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company).
Despite this monopoly, the stations are clean (even the rest rooms!) and well staffed. Many of them have oil change stations, full service car washes, and fast food restaurants. There is no self-service (not even if you want to pump it yourself), and the attendents even wash your windshield.
And the price? Well, it depends on which grade you want. The cheaper grade is 95 octane and costs 4.75 a gallon. Oh, that is 4.75 dirhams, and I'm fairly sure that it is imperial gallons. So, in US money and measures, that is $1.09 a gallon. (If I'm wrong about the gallons being imperial, then it goes up to $1.29.) The more expensive grade, 98 octane, is 5.25 AED a gallon ($1.19 or at most $1.43).
This blog began as a description of our life in Al Ain, UAE (United Arab Emirates). Brn worked at the UAE University Libraries Deanship for three years and Bss homeschooled our four children, D, B, P, and O. After returning to the the USA for five years, we are living in Abu Dhabi now.
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2005/08/16
2005/04/08
Paperwork
So, before we can go to the UAE, Brn has to complete a bunch of paper work. All our important documents have to authenticated by our current state's state department, the US State Department, and the UAE embassy. Currently the documents are at the US State Department. Brn just called the UAE Embassy this morning and they charge $30 per document, which means that it will set us back $240 just for this. Fortunately this should be the last big expense before the actual move.
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