Well i guess the first place to start is alcohol. There isn't any. If you need your fix you can go to Bahrain, which is a 30 minute flight from Riyadh.
Depending on which part of the country you are based it can be warm, hot, or so hot your blood can boil.
Again depending on which part of the country you are located you may have a lot of outside activities available (East & West Provinces) or quite little if it is Riyadh (in the middle of the desert with just sand dunes and not so friendly camels for company).
I find the food in Riyadh less exciting than in the 2 seaside provinces which have many more expats from a wider area of the world.
Riyadh is the capital so from a business perspective that is where the action is. However most of us expats would easily and with little encouragement move to either Jeddah or Al Khobar (fun, exciting, bustling, by the sea).
I guess I am trying to say the upsides far outweigh the downsides.
Yes it is not what we are "normally" used to. But every place in the world can be great to live in if you make it so.
There are lots of expats societies, groups, and events.
Come over. It is not what you think, it's much better.
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