Meant to be moving to Dubai in 4 weeks

Because for all its loveliness, it IS a bit wet.

Don't worry OP I didn't realise how close Iran was to Dubai either. Clearly some Mumsnetters have nothing else better to do than mock others.

Then why are you sneering at the Lake District holidays in a previous post?

I am not a sweet summer child; I have worked for the Government of Dubai and thus had my mind opened - see my post above. And yes, I have been to the Lake District. Stayed in a youth hotel in Cockermouth and walked round Buttermere. (I think - was decades ago.) It's absolutely gorgeous, the LD is one of my favourite places in the world.

It can’t be genuine.

I do not!

Only trashy people describe other human being as trash.

HTH.

Do you know its 2026 love?

Nah only trash goes to Dubai.
HTH

Sorry, are you saying you don't believe I was there for four days in 2004? I'm not sure what your incredulity is for. And I may only have been there for four days, but I worked for the Dubai government for seven months.

Having read your last update I’m not even sure this can be genuine.

Doesnt blow my mind at all.
Nothing does. Seen too much done too much for that to happen
And i can spot rubbish when i see it.
4 days in 2004. Give me a break.
You know trying to insult me says more about you than me ya? .

I don't know why you say "claiming to be there" in 2004. I was there. I worked for the Gov and was describing my lived experience of being there as a Gov worker. I'm sorry it blows your mind so much that you have to scoff, but foreign countries around the world do have tourism offices in London and they employ Londoners, as I was at that time.

@FloofBunny

’Halo-polishers’, ‘virtue signalling’.

See, here’s the thing that hasn’t occurred to you; you’re operating on a whole other plane to the rest of us. And just to be clear, I absolutely don’t mean that as a compliment.

Those buildings and infrastructure were built on the backs of dead slaves. That alone is enough for the rest of us who are not morally bereft to realise that that place is a problem. And that is without sifting through the mountain of other problematic matters about Dubai.

Your comments say an awful lot about you… But what it says you won’t begin to be able to grasp.

You are incorrect.
HTH.
Someone claiming to be there in 2004, pls.
Absolute drivil

I went to Dubai for four days in 2004, because I was working for the Government of Dubai in London for seven months. I worked for the DTCM, Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing, which had an office very near Trafalgar Square. It hasn't really been on my radar since then, I just smell a rat when the halo-polishers start. I can't stand virtue-signalling and all the posturing, because I think it's mostly fake and I just don't believe them. I bet they've been to loads of problematic places and continue to do so. I much prefer vice-signalling. At least it's honest.

I experienced the Dubai offices and the Dubai gov HQ in that one visit and met many locals. Did you know that men and women don't touch during the wives' menstruation not because they are seen to be "unclean" but because they both spend the period of time grieving for the soul that could have been, but wasn't? That's the kind of information you don't come across when your mind remains firmly closed and your feet in only perfect places.

One night we were in the desert, and I walked behind this tent, and saw a row of Arab men in their robes facing towards Mecca, eyes closed, and clearly having a moment of deep spirituality. It was very moving.

So embarrassed I'm hiding under the bed!!

How would you know what my life experiences are? I haven't lived in the UK for twenty years, smartypants, although I don't live in the ME and have spent much time back in the UK taking care of my (now deceased) parents.

'Everyone wants to move there'. 🤣

Trollololol. 🎣

I'm afraid your posts do not suggest an experienced, educated, broadminded author, however broad you think your life experience is.

Exactly.

The trip I went on, which was taking a group of UK travel agents to Dubai to experience the holiday product that they were selling, was run in conjunction with Gulf Air. The GA chappie who accompanied us was half-Liverpudlian and half-Bahranian. He had grown up in Bahrain but had also spent time living in London. Anyway, it was his belief that democracy can never work in the ME. Which was interesting. I didn't get to talking about it further - trip matters probably intervened - but I'm guessing he meant a benign dictatorship, which Dubai is compared to regimes like North Korea. As in, it's relatively easy to avoid pissing off the Dubai government, and its citizens have good, free healthcare.

Your ignorance is on full display. You have no idea of my life experiences. But i guarantee you they are a lot more vast than yours. And im not naiive and ignorant like some.
Are you not embarrassed ?

Your ignorance is on full display. You have no idea of my life experiences. But i guarantee you they are a lot more vast than yours. And im not naiive and ignorant like some.
Are you not embarrassed ?