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25-Aug-2019 Tim Betts

Growing popularity of living on the DQ

This isn’t the most attractive scene, but since Tim went through the trouble of going to our old house for pictures, and because it’s pretty par for the course on the Diplomatic Quarter, I’m including it.

Taken across a vast open space looking at the Lebanese Embassy on the left, the entrance to our park (with its two water towers) next to that (directly behind which our house was located), and a new housing development from center right on. None of those houses were there when we moved to the DQ in 2013, but when we left three years later, they were springing up all over since Saudis had realized it was a nice place to live and were moving in in droves.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Expansion, posted earlier:

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Julie Oldfield05-Sep-2019 15:53
Nicely composed.
Blandine Mangin04-Sep-2019 06:48
very nice pano ! v
Hank Vander Velde03-Sep-2019 22:12
Beautiful pano-like image.
Graeme03-Sep-2019 21:37
I like those water towers as well and they blend in quite well. Not a lot of them about over here in the UK now.V
Isabel Cutler03-Sep-2019 21:05
The water towers are quite attractive.
larose forest photos03-Sep-2019 20:06
A really intriguing view and I find it interesting that the popularity of the Diplomatic Quarters is attracting large numbers of people, presumably not connected to any diplomatic mission? V
Dave Berry03-Sep-2019 19:17
It sounds like much of the US. Idaho is becoming California, as we found out. V
Jim Coffman03-Sep-2019 19:08
A very interesting area...
Tom Munson03-Sep-2019 19:00
Nice shot and a step back in time for you.