Larry, while there is some danger to living in Saudi or the middle east in general sometimes the danger is overrated when you are sitting in Canada. I lived in Saudi and in Iran and was in Iran when the revolution started; some foolish expats did not take the normal precautions and got killed but almost everyone got out safely. I was also in Saudi when terrorists overran the main mosque in Mecca and the country was locked down and most western radio signals were jammed. Our compound was guarded day and night by soldiers and one morning I spoke with two of them and noticed one had the buttons on his uniform mismatched and the other guy had his shoes on the wrong foot. The only thing we did differently was to not carry our home made booze around with us on the public roads for a week or so.