Relocation to Sohar from UK

Hello Fluke1

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Hello Fluke

Welcome to Sohar

1. Two best school Sohar International and knowledge oasis. Both give british cirruculam.

2. Two good accomodations Palm Gardens and Sohar Resisdence. For 2 bedroom flat around 500 n 3 bedrooms 600 and villa around 1100.

3. Very peaceful n friendly city. Very few places to visit one big hypermarket for food shopping, city cinema. Beautiful beach

4. Pets i have no exp but i do see lot of ppl with pets walking around.

Hope this will help

Dear Fluke

I know your post was a while back but would like to know how you managed your move with your dog and if you have found a suitable house and places to walk your dog and a vet?

We are looking at coming over from SA and would like to bring our golden retriever.
Any info would be great - posted other posts but did not get any responses.

Thanks

It's number of years since I worked in Oman and was for the most part based in Muscat, with monthly visits to the port.

From experience the nearest vet is or was down in  Muscat but they had a monthly clinic up in Sohar.

I am not too sure if this is still going on

Hi, I just received an salary offer to move to Sohar, It´s 1234.500 OR as basic salary plus 575.500 OR for fixed allowance per month.
I´ll be taking my family with me, so what I really need to know is if that ammount of money is good enough to live in Sohar, Oman with my familly.
Can anyone give me an idea on how much do I need to have a decent life in Sohar and be able to save money for the future? I'm needing real examples of the costs because I have friends that live in Muscat and comparing with that city they tell me that´s really low. I´m trying to set up a budget example on monthly expenses but it´s kind of difficult because most of the pages refer to Muscat.
I have two children and eventhough the company is giving a school benefit at the end I'll have to put down from my own salary around 300 OMR per child. We are not looking for a luxurious lifestyle, but at least We´d like have a confortable life and as mentioned before be able to save money. A family of 4 how much money needs to spend per month on grocery shopping? also most of the apartments or houses for rent come unfurnished, So We'd have to make a major expense just to furnished the place to live. I need to have the most real scenario in order to evaluate the real costs and if it's profitable to move so far.
Thank you very much to anyone who can help me out.