Why would I be bitter? I enjoyed my time there. I would not want to live there long term. I understand their culture and I also understand that many creative intellectual developers, designers and engineers would like to be given the heads up regarding potential cultural conflicts they may encounter when moving to certain areas they may not be familiar with. I have no regrets about sharing my background, experience and observations about this with younger developers, designers and engineers so they know what they are getting into.

I have worked in many places, including quite a few other countries. If a discussion came up advising people to consider tech jobs in Saudi Arabia, I would have much similar advice and cautions as it is not a place that is advisable to walk to blindly. In many ways parts of Saudi Arabia and cities like Chattanooga are quite similar, if you can handle one comfortably as an outsider you can probably handle the other, but both are considerably different and alien to the various well known US tech friendly areas. Whereas someone thinking of going to Germany or Sweden I'd say go for it and feel there is no need to give complex explanations about possible cultural mismatch issues.