Saudi Arabia’s Drive to Get Expats to Ditch Dubai Is Off to a Rocky Start

The crown prince wants to transform Riyadh into one of the world’s 10 largest city economies by 2030

Saudi Arabia lags behind Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE as a desirable destination for expats, according to an HSBC ranking.

Photographer: Jeremy Suyker/Bloomberg
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Will Brown, a Dubai-based global-risk executive who has been traveling to Riyadh for work for almost seven years, has started to notice a change on his two-hour flight to the Saudi capital.