Meant to be moving to Dubai in 4 weeks

I did. I wish I hadn't looked. 😱

We as a family are seriously contemplating at move to somewhere in the GCC. 0% income tax, no crime whatsoever. We've been to Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and DH has been to Saudi. As a family we've only been in their winter where the weather is comfortable. An August is probably way too hot to enjoy.

I think back in 2025 the stuff ended relatively soon and the airspace opened up after the strikes ended.

The problem is Dubai and parts of the middle east have been really glamorised now so everyone wants to move there. Then something like this happens and you get a reality check

Wow. I don't know anyone who wants to move there, or even visit. There is nothing glamorous about a regime that has an appalling record of women's and human rights. It's a bit like those people in the 1930s who were admirers of Hitler and the Nazis.

Most people do not want to move to the middle East. Most of us do not think it is glamorous.

Of course YANBU!
I doubt you will be able to get there anyway at the moment and I really struggle to believe you didn't realise where a country you are intending to move to is located. I would not want to live in or even visit Dubai but if you are drawn to that lifestyle you must calculate the risk for yourself.

A reli of mine had a biggish job out there (multinational company). They suddenly closed it down and pulled out quite a few years ago now. I think something happening has been expected for some time now.

Hold the press! Theign doesn’t want to go to Dubai!

Yes, that is some first class information!

She’s not going on holiday. She’s planning to live there.

And people should do homework. Even for holidays. There’s a reason the English are seen as ignorant.

How is it not?

Tempted to Google but sounds like it's best not.

How is that ‘information’?

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-12246979

You only care now you’ve realised your life could be slightly less than wonderful. The reality of how Dubai’s luxury was built and is maintained by other people’s suffering doesn’t matter.

I am genuinely disgusted with the idea of someone emigrating without any homework. I don’t go on a two week holiday without knowing where a place is.

And yet people moan that immigrants to the UK don’t integrate and learn.

That not everyone wants to live there. Have you forgotten your first post to me.

My friend who is there there and can't leave

I’ve only read the first page of this thread and I’m getting irritated by everyone scolding you. I know plenty of people uninterested in knowing where they are when they go on holiday, never mind pointing to Iran on a map.

You’re not unreasonable to be worried. No one knows what is going to happen. If escalations happen it’s not like we are sat pretty here in the UK after all the military planes arriving here this past week from the US.

Follow the guidance set out by the government and do what you feel comfortable with.

Op I wouldn’t even visit there. The rules, lifestyle, paying household staff a pittance, women’s rights way behind men’s. Each to your own. A lot of people want to leave the uk but the grass isn’t always greener is it. Safety would be my priority right now.

No one knows really they could stop bombing each other tomorrow or it could drag on for weeks or more. It doesn't look like Iran is going to roll over and I can't see Trump backing down, have to see if common sense prevails. And then there will be a huge mess to clear up.

Jesus! I just googled this. What a cesspit Dubai is 🤢🤡

What information?

We love the GCC and would love to go. But unsure about the situation now. I'm hoping it'll clear up soon and wishing you a smooth move @Medesres !

I think you have misunderstood, she’s not concerned about the schedule it’s moving there full stop.

Some common sense at last. No one cares where people want to go to or don’t want to go, OP is in a tricky situation and needs help not smuggery bollocks.

I think all you can do is wait and see what happens, to be fair to you I had to look up exactly where it was when the trouble started as wasn’t sure.
I wouldn’t ever live somewhere with such a poor history of human rights, oppression of women etc so I had no need to know where it was specifically, it does seem very odd that you wouldn’t research it throughly before contemplating the move.
My DH colleague left their work place to move there, he was younger, single with no children. The pay he was being offered was much more than here and wanted to move over there for the experience whilst he was unattached. He said it’s not a place he’d want to raise a family in though so plans on it being a short term prospect.

Off topic but i just googled young people emigrating to Dubai and 'potty parties' came up. OMFG

I gave her a fact. Always useful to actually know the truth. She's obviously been persuaded that it is so great everyone wants to go there. Several if us have given her some information.

You are moving to a place that doesn’t respect human rights so not sure why you are worried about a bit of war fare