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Help me rebuild my Riyadh social circle - single guy mid-20's

17 years ago
I've been living in Riyadh for a few months so far and I'm having a pretty good time. Although Riyadh isn't the most interesting place in the world for young, single guys, I've managed to keep myself quite busy in my spare time. Unfortunately, some of my younger colleagues are leaving since their contracts are up, and I'll have to rebuild my social circle. I have a lot of nice colleagues, but most are family fathers and aren't really interested in hanging out in their spare time. So I need suggestions for places to go to meet people. I live in a very family-oriented compound, so there is not much help to be had there.

I would prefer to find other young westerners, since our interests would be more in sync, but I'm open to any suggestions. Basically I'm looking for people to play tennis with, go bowling, take weekend trips to Bahrain with and similar activities. I'm basically wondering if people in this forum know of any groups or activities that attracts young westerners, just like the housewives in the compounds have their baby-clubs etc. :-)

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