Similar to gates in neighborhoods all over Riyadh https://pbase.com/helenpb/riyadh_gates these gates, almost next door to our old house, indicate that the DQ is no longer reserved for embassies and their diplomats but that Saudis are now living there as well. It’s a nice place to live, with parks everywhere, but maybe the presence of things like restaurants, a supermarket, hotels, cafes, shopping malls and a hospital, things that never existed on the DQ while we lived there, can be explained by the new demographic.

‘Welcome to our community…’ posted earlier: