Money may not be enough for Americans who no longer feel safe in an oil firm enclave. It was the sort of lazy, sun-dappled day made for lemonade and swimming pools, and all over the sprawling, fortified Aramco headquarters the kids banged in and out of their houses with the taste of summer freedom on their lips. Portly men wearing headphones and jogging shorts grunted along the sidewalks. Children wheeled past on bicycles. The four American women gathered to sip Diet Pepsi in the deep leather sofas in Valerie’s living room. There was really only one thing to talk about; it’s been that way since gunmen killed 22 people, mostly foreign workers, a few minutes’ drive from here. And so they discussed who’s quitting the company, who’s heard what rumors about the attack and which wives will take their kids back to the States for good. Full Story
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