Inside Saudi Arabia. - By Nicholas Schmidle - Slate Magazine

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**What High Oil Prices Can Do for a Country**
**Nicholas Schmidle** • 4/18/2008

heads up: this is a pretty old post, it may be outdated.

Sat Apr 19 2008

At his home in Riyadh, his family kept a Filipino cook, driver, and maid who washed his briefs. "I don't know how to cook or to clean my clothes," he told me. "So, whenever I am in the United States, I just wear my underwear once … and then throw them away."

—Inside Saudi Arabia. - By Nicholas Schmidle - Slate Magazine

What a great quote to pull out in a brief article about the state of social progression in Saudi Arabia. The article is short, but worth a read to get an idea of what a modern, islamist, monarchy is like.