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Medesres · 2026-03-01T15:42:26+00:00

We've been planning a move to Dubai for a while now. Dh's work has an office out there and it seemed like great opportunity to live abroad and experience sth different. I've got a couple of friends out there already too who love the lifestyle. Watching the news for the past 24 hours and I'm really starting to question things. I had no idea how close to Iran it was and who knows what might happen next. Part of me is hoping it will all be resolved soon but hard to believe. My friend who already lives there has spent the night sleeping in one room with her dh and kids scared of all the missile noises.

Dolphinnoises · 01/03/2026 16:30

God people can be so unhelpful.
@Medesres I would say that while the Foreign Office is advising against travel, it’s very unlikely your DH’s employer would make you all travel and you would be on strong ground pushing back if they suggested you should leave on schedule.

BlimeyOReillyO · 01/03/2026 16:30

Katypp · 01/03/2026 16:28

Yes I agree. I think we get the message everyone - you wouldn't want to live there because you are more enlightened than the OP. Well done.
Now explaim how your enlightenment helps the OP exactly?

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She’ll realise that not everyone wants to move there and reflect on why? No matter how glamorous she thinks it is.

MyNextDoorNeighbourVotesReform · 01/03/2026 16:29

Katypp · 01/03/2026 16:28

Yes I agree. I think we get the message everyone - you wouldn't want to live there because you are more enlightened than the OP. Well done.
Now explaim how your enlightenment helps the OP exactly?

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Maybe the OP will read the posts on this thread and she and her husband will pull out of the move altogether. Win win

ElizabethsTailor · 01/03/2026 16:29

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:20

Because your response was not helpful to OP at all.

She’s stressed out of her mind, how does it help her to know you don’t want to move there?

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I disagree. I think it is helpful to OP to have some people be straight with her about how utterly ridiculous it is to contemplate moving to the Middle East, without researching it, just because she believes “everyone wants to”.

edwinbear · 01/03/2026 16:29

The problem is Dubai and parts of the middle east have been really glamorised now so everyone wants to move there

Insta Z listers want to move there. You could throw £1m of their tax free cash at me and I still wouldn’t move there.

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:29

Katypp · 01/03/2026 16:28

Yes I agree. I think we get the message everyone - you wouldn't want to live there because you are more enlightened than the OP. Well done.
Now explaim how your enlightenment helps the OP exactly?

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Exactly!

BlimeyOReillyO · 01/03/2026 16:29

Medesres · 01/03/2026 15:53

I knew it was in middle east Gulf and obviously Iran is in that area too but I hadn't studied the map in great detail until today.

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

Dh going to speak to his work tomorrow. I'm sure they wouldn't send him if it escalates

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I can assure you not everyone wants to move there! For very good reason.

Lots of different reasons.

loislovesstewie · 01/03/2026 16:28

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:25

Yep, suddenly they’re all ME experts.

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So making a huge decision on where to live, don't you think most people would do some basic research? Not just rely on Instagram?

Katypp · 01/03/2026 16:28

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:20

Because your response was not helpful to OP at all.

She’s stressed out of her mind, how does it help her to know you don’t want to move there?

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Yes I agree. I think we get the message everyone - you wouldn't want to live there because you are more enlightened than the OP. Well done.
Now explaim how your enlightenment helps the OP exactly?

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:28

TheignT · 01/03/2026 16:27

Are you in charge? No one told me.

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🥱

gingercat02 · 01/03/2026 16:28

TheignT · 01/03/2026 15:54

No not everyone wants to go there.

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Absolutely this! Not only do I not want to live there I have no desire to visit or even do a long haul stop over in such a vile place.

Dragonscaledaisy · 01/03/2026 16:28

Lucy998 · 01/03/2026 16:21

You have been fooled by false advertising I’m afraid. It’s very much a case of the emperor’s new clothes.

You’re not alone though. They’ve done a job on a lot of poorly informed individuals.

I’ve travelled extensively and wouldn’t put Dubai in my top 100 places to live.

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Neither would I. It's horrific and about as far from 'glamorous' as it's possible to be. I'm also shocked that anyone could agree to move to Dubai and not know how close to Iran it is.

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:28

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 01/03/2026 16:27

I would.

My SIL has had to go to Bahrain, Saudi and Dubai for work in the past and hated all three.

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Happy to leech their money though.

somuchbedding · 01/03/2026 16:27

Yes I don’t understand why people are not a bit more freaked out by the prevalence of modern slavery in countries like UAE

Because of low taxes

TheignT · 01/03/2026 16:27

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:26

Maybe you need to look up what ‘maybe’ means.

Anyway, stop derailing OP’s thread, it’s tedious.

She has probably left this shit show anyway.

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Are you in charge? No one told me.

womendeserveequalhumanrights · 01/03/2026 16:27

Lambington · 01/03/2026 16:21

There is a reason they pay westerners a fortune to go there. If something seems too good to be true it usually is.
And "the lifestyle" is achieved by expoliting slave labour - nothing more nothing less. Some people are ok with that. Some are not.

Well said.

MyNextDoorNeighbourVotesReform · 01/03/2026 16:27

HandfulOfMoths · 01/03/2026 16:26

i don’t think she said she had DC to be fair.

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That's true. I don't think she did. Thank fuck for that. One tick

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 01/03/2026 16:27

HandfulOfMoths · 01/03/2026 16:25

Well, no. But presumably you’d look if you were moving there.

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I would.

My SIL has had to go to Bahrain, Saudi and Dubai for work in the past and hated all three.

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:26

TheignT · 01/03/2026 16:25

Comprehension problem number two, I didn't say I wanted to go.

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Maybe you need to look up what ‘maybe’ means.

Anyway, stop derailing OP’s thread, it’s tedious.

She has probably left this shit show anyway.

Whitengold · 01/03/2026 16:26

MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend · 01/03/2026 16:24

I would love to get all the people mocking the op to draw their own map of the area. I spend ages on Google maps but I only have a rough idea of the location of Middle Eastern countries...I thought Iran was slightly further west rather than just across the gulf. I don't think that makes me an imbecile.

Those people weren't about to move their children there!

You're right there are lots of places in the world I couldn't pinpoint on a map, but I'd have a look before booking a holiday there, let alone moving my family.

holycrapballs · 01/03/2026 16:26

MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend · 01/03/2026 16:24

I would love to get all the people mocking the op to draw their own map of the area. I spend ages on Google maps but I only have a rough idea of the location of Middle Eastern countries...I thought Iran was slightly further west rather than just across the gulf. I don't think that makes me an imbecile.

To be fair, we’re not moving there and would likely do a good deal more research than watching influencers on insta.

MyNextDoorNeighbourVotesReform · 01/03/2026 16:26

MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend · 01/03/2026 16:24

I would love to get all the people mocking the op to draw their own map of the area. I spend ages on Google maps but I only have a rough idea of the location of Middle Eastern countries...I thought Iran was slightly further west rather than just across the gulf. I don't think that makes me an imbecile.

Are you intending to live there? No? Then, no, you're not an imbecile. Why would you research an area minutely that you're not going to live?

Tuliptana · 01/03/2026 16:26

MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend · 01/03/2026 16:24

I would love to get all the people mocking the op to draw their own map of the area. I spend ages on Google maps but I only have a rough idea of the location of Middle Eastern countries...I thought Iran was slightly further west rather than just across the gulf. I don't think that makes me an imbecile.

If i was moving my family there i would have studied a map at the very least.

HandfulOfMoths · 01/03/2026 16:26

Whitengold · 01/03/2026 16:25

I expect it's a bit much to expect that you've done any research wrt the laws of the land and how they might affect you and DC then?

i don’t think she said she had DC to be fair.

TheignT · 01/03/2026 16:25

nomas · 01/03/2026 16:24

Maybe you can take OP’s place then.

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Comprehension problem number two, I didn't say I wanted to go.