Meant to be moving to Dubai in 4 weeks

It amazes me too. And Dubai pays influencers to whitewash it's image on social media - and then more people move there, not realising at all what the region is like

One of my fave books in the house is a huge atlas.

Yeah it's a glamourised lifestyle if you're new money and don't give a shit about slavery or oppression of women, gay people, and so on.

But you'll find even in your peers that don't care, one of the biggest complaints about living in Dubai as an outsider is that everyone quickly leaves or is planning to.

Gutted for you that numerous deaths in the middle east which led to this and now, might challenge your plans and need to look at a map and actually understand where you're planning to move to and educate yourself though hun, thoughts and prayers.

You are hoping the Middle East crisis will be resolved soon? Well it’s been a bin fire since the early 1900’s, so I’m sure it will be sorted in the next 4 weeks so you can move as planned.

@placemats Might they have to slum it with the plebs? 😱

Those poor, poor patriots.

Yet, USA citizens get ridiculed when they come out with comments like this!

Wars aside, I don’t think you should move somewhere that you couldn’t even pinpoint on a map.

All those tax exiles who'll be clamouring for the next flight out, thinking their money should protect them, and that the UK government should rescue them. Which no doubt we will if it comes to it.

YANBU - but not only for those current reasons.

It completely destroyed my friend’s marriage living out there. She wishes in hindsight they had never set foot there. Described it as a completely fake, materialistic and spoilt lifestyle full of fake people to match. She is relieved to be back in the UK despite now being a divorced single mum, still feels way better off.

Tread carefully.

They can't get a private jet yet. Oh the horror!

To be fair to OP I don't think many of us expected Dubai to be bombed yesterday - it's not generally a conflict-affected area and many, many Brits holiday and live there.
I've never been to the ME, but my Dad worked out there for years in the 90s/2000s - Dubai, Saudi, Qatar, Israel etc etc as he was an oil/gas engineer. Things can turn in an instant, and although it never happened to him, he had colleagues who were emergency evacuated, because a coup or something like this had happened overnight. I also knew a Diplomat's wife, who had to be evacuated - Yemen I think - they had to leave everything - left with the clothes they were wearing and their passports.
OP - I don't think you'll be moving there in 4 weeks (even if you still want to!), unless this blows over v quickly, and frankly it looks like it's ramping up today. I think it's more likely the Foreign Office will advise against travel, and start bringing Brits home tbh. But far too early to tell.

Wondering what Richard Tice, Isabel Oakshott and Nadhim Zahawi plan to do… Perhaps they might be considering living and paying some tax in the UK…

No crime... perhaps because slavery and similar despicable things that are illegal here aren't over there. Slavery is not a crime.

On the other hand homosexuality can be punished with the death penalty.

Better to enslave people than like someone the same gender 🤔

I think people are being pretty sneery. I'm not moving there admittedly but I didn't realise Iran was across the Persian gulf from UAE. I also didn't see this coming even with the violence that's been going on in Iran in the last few months. I never thought the US would do this, though I know its been a very very long time coming. I also didn't appreciate Iran would lash out at the UAE though makes sense to try and disable US abilities to launch strikes as well as to make this everyone's problem so that other countries will put pressure on the US to cease.

I hope your DH gets permission to stay on the UK and keep his job. There's no way you can go now. I'm sorry.

Don't Richard Tice - MP for Dubai - and his partner Isabel Oakeshott live in Dubai ?

Oh that’s ok then….

They’re doing lots… 🤔

Gay relationships are illegal, punishable by various things, including the death penalty.

”Just” no PDAs or what?

To be fair though they aren't saying they want to move there. No one has to know where anything is but it might be sensible to get clued up if you want to actually relocate.

'Love the lifestyle' 🙄

Let’s hope that if OP has children now or when she’s out there, that they’re heterosexual males.

Its a really great place for them!

Apart from its proximity to Iran of course! But maybe they could change that in time?

From my experience of Dubai, I always thought it was full of Brits too thick to make it in the UK, who don’t care a fig about anything other than getting a lifestyle that transcends their abilities, bought at the expense of wholesale human rights abuses. This OP is just reinforcing that notion.

The UAE are now doing a lot to tackle the mistreatment of migrant workers. Women are not second class and are probably a lot safer in the GCC than in the UK. Since when do gay people get publicly assaulted - you just can't do PDA there.

Dubai is a lot safer than the UK and there are better prospects compared to the UK. Things are on a continual downward spiral here. I would go for it OP. This is only a recent development and things are changing all the time.

People don't watch the news or take an interest, so it's probably why this trouble has come as a shock to some. If you were planning to move somewhere though surely some investigation about the place would be done?

I really want to go on holiday to Jordan this year in February, but got really nervous in December with everything happening and when I mentioned it to my dd's they looked at me and pulled faces of concern - so I didn't book

Okay. Then next to no crime. And if you report it good chance something gets done. There's extensive CCTV.

Two people you can name..

Hardly a comparison 🤣!

So, it would appear far from wanting everyone to “be kind” to OP, you’re actually the sort of person who is either living in Dubai, or thinks it’s a “great”
place…… it’s not!