Saudi Arabia
Do you know how it goes? How many preparations there need to be done in order to move to KSA? Let me tell you just a few things. First, keep in mind the fact that they are most probably going to check the items that you bring in. The censorship will not allow any books or magazines that they will consider as inappropriate. They might take it all or tear out the pages that are offending their beliefs.
Islam in its very radical version is ruling this - if it weren't for oil - third world country. The whole Arabic peninsula has gone through rapid changes due to money they earned on oil. People joke that they changed straight camels for Ferraris. As a result only the tools got changed but not the mentality as it needs much more time. Saudi Arabia is the most closed to changes of them all.
There are no cinemas in the whole country. A woman can leave the house only in the company of another person, a woman or relative male. Women are not allowed to drive a car, if they will be caught, they would go to jail. Women are only allowed to be seated in a car with a relative male. It is very unlikely that a cab will stop if a woman wants a ride. If your kid is sick and you go alone to a pharmacy, they might ask you to leave as you are unaccompanied. Woman is treated as a kid in most of the societies. You noticed those signs in elevators - Children under the age of 12 are not allowed to use the elevator unaccompanied. That is the situation of a woman in KSA, she is not allowed to do many things alone or at all, simply because she is a woman.
But there is one more thing that I find the most retarded of all. In case you would decide to go there and you will get yourself an insurance, you will hear that the insurance company cannot guarantee that in case of an accident you will be provided the first aid. Most of the medical staff is man who are entitled to refuse to touch a woman, even in life threatening situations.
If you would faint on the street, no man will come to help and no man will let his wife do so.
