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We live and work in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. I work for the Saudi Oil Company ARAMCO as a petrophysicist. My wife Deb Deb is a music teacher at the Dhahran Academy located inside the American Consulate compound. Our son Ryan is going to school at the University of Vermont.

We live within the confines of a community set up for expatriates working for Aramco. The Aramco camp is like living in a small town in the states. At one time the Aramco camp (Dhahran) was completely self contained because there were no facilities outside. It has a hospital, school, grocery store, dining hall, movie theatre, etc. and is really a mini-town. This was all built by necessity years ago when the only things outside of Aramco were date trees and Bedouins. Now, the area (Khobar and Dammam) is much more developed with shopping centers, malls, highways, etc.